Heinrich Arnold Wilhelm Winckler

Heinrich Arnold Wilhelm Winckler (born September 27, 1796 in Heringen near Nordhausen , † May 19, 1848 in Gießen ) was a German teacher and writer.

Life

Winckler was the son of the spiritual inspector and consistorial assistant Christian Gottlob Winckler (born May 13, 1752 in Stolberg , † June 8, 1813 in Heringen) and his wife Henriette Eleonore Warlich. He attended the Latin city school in Stolberg with a focus on classical languages. In 1810 he came to the monastery school Roßleben and had lessons with August Wilhelm Zachariae (born July 26, 1769 in Riesa , † May 6, 1823 in Roßleben). He then studied theology and classical philology in Leipzig and Gießen and graduated successfully. 1817 doctorate he became a doctor of philosophy and a year later was able to habilitation .

In October 1816 he was employed at the academic pedagogy in Giessen. He stayed at this pedagogy until he retired on September 15, 1839 as a second teacher for health reasons. In addition to his work as a teacher, he also worked as a private lecturer at the University of Giessen until 1829 , where he held philological lectures; In the summer semester of 1821 he also offered Modern Greek. He also worked as a translator and writer.

Carl Vogt remembers his former teacher in his memoirs in 1896: “Second teacher in the rank was Dr. Winkler, a short, fat, stocky philologist with the most horrible Saxon dialect one could hear. He had Latin or Greek without distinction from the lowest to the highest classes, and here he was in constant conflict with the pupils because of the consonants and vowels which neither the Saxon ear nor the Saxon tongue know how to distinguish. The unfortunate philologist was just as unable to tell B and p, d and t, e and ä, i and ü apart, as was François Arago at the Paris Academy of Sciences, the names of the two astronomers Enke and Henke. So he helped himself with the Greek names of the letters and it was really funny when he said: 'Ebaminontas - with a hard bi and a soft telda!' - Wänkler, as he himself pronounced his name, was a good old-style philologist, but an incorrigible drunkard. At ten o'clock in the morning some student he preferred had to get him red wine from a neighboring bar, which was an almost unheard-of thing in Giessen at the time, and in the afternoons he was always pissed off in such a way that mostly his heavy, dark red head sank to his chest and a loud snore signaled the complete dissolution of the class. When prepared, his speeches were turned in thoroughly classical phrases; if unprepared, downright rabble. "

Awards

Heinrich Arnold Wilhelm Winckler received a letter of appreciation from the later Greek President, Count Augustinos Kapodistrias, for his metric translation of Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea on October 6, 1833.

Works (selection)

• Critica dissertatio de nonnullis difficilioribus locis libelli Caji Cornelii Taciti de situ, morbis et populis Germaniae. University publication: Gießen, University, Diss., 1817.
• De praecipuis causis auxiliis, quibus ingenium Graeci juvenis excolebatur. Gissae, 1819.
• Metrical Greek translation of the first song by Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea, with the original and Latin translation by Fischer attached. Invitation from Dr. HAW Winckler. Giessen 1823 [1]
• Extract from Cyrillus' collection of those words that have different accents according to their different meanings: a small, perhaps not undesirable addition to every Greek grammar. Giessen: Heyer, 1825.
• Ludovico. et Ludovicae Carolinae Henricae in solemnibus nuptialibus semisaecularibus the 19th of February 1827 celebrandis Gymnasii Academici Gissensis vota offert Henr. Arn. Guil. Winckler. Gissae, (1827)
• Quod Felix Faustumque Esse Iubeat Auctoritate Regia Ludovici Academiae Ludovicianae Nutritoris Ex Decreto Totius Senatus Academici Et Imprimis Excellentissimi Philosophorum Ordinis Viro Henrico Arnoldo Guilielmo Wincker Schwarzburg-Rudolphopolitano Summos Doctoris Philosophiae Honores HodieX Contulit: D. XXX. November ARS [MD] CCCXVII. Giessae: Schröder, [1817]
• Carmen . Giessen: Schröder, 1827.
• More complete Latin Chrestomathy for use by the middle classes, extracted from 16 prosaic and 4 poetical classical writers. Giessen Heyer 1826.
• Second Philippine speech. Marburg: J. Chr. Krieger, 1828.
• Ode to August Friedrich Crome, Dr. jur. et phil., Prof. f. Cameralistics in Giessen. Giessae: Typis Hasseis, 1829.
• MT Ciceronis in M. Antonium oratio Philippica secunda, annotationibus in usum scholar. Marburgi: Warriors, 1829.
• The Gospel of John, metaphorized by Nonnus from Panos in Egypt . Giessen: Brühl, (1838)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Eduard Scriba: Biographical-literary encyclopedia of the writers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the first quarter of the nineteenth century . Leske, 1831 ( google.de [accessed October 9, 2017]).
2. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New nekrolog der Deutschen ... BF Voigt, 1850 ( google.de [accessed on October 9, 2017]).
3. ↑ Parish book of the church province of Saxony. In: Volume 10. Association for pastors in the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony e. V., accessed on October 9, 2017 . 
4. ^ ADB: Zachariae, August Wilhelm - Wikisource. Retrieved October 9, 2017 . 
5. ^ Heinrich Arnold Wilhelm Winckler: Hermann and Dorothea. First song - Who was Heinrich Arnold Wilhem Winckler? Retrieved October 9, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Carl Vogt: From my life. Memories and retrospectives, p. 100 f., See https://archive.org/stream/ausmeinemlebene00vogtgoog#page/n115/mode/2up