Heinrich Georgii

Carl Heinrich Georgii (born April 27, 1842 in Freudenstadt , † 1926 in Stuttgart ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school teacher who taught at the Stuttgart Realgymnasium from 1869 to 1900 . He is particularly known for his studies of ancient poetry and his edition of Tiberius Claudius Donatus ' Virgil Commentary (1905–1906).

Life

Heinrich Georgii came from a long-established Württemberg family. His father August Wilhelm Georgii (1812–1860) was a parish assistant and deacon in Freudenstadt and from 1855 dean of the Balingen church district . Heinrich Georgii grew up there, passed the state examination in 1856 and attended the Evangelical Seminary in Schöntal . From 1860 he studied classical philology at the University of Tübingen , where he was a member of the philological seminar and in 1864 was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . As a student he took part in the gathering of German philologists and school men in Heidelberg (1865). After the teaching degree in 1865, he went to the Württemberg school service.

From 1869 Georgii taught at the Realgymnasium in Stuttgart , which two years earlier had emerged from the realistic department of the Upper Gymnasium . The director Christian Dillmann redesigned this school based on the Prussian and Saxon model into an alternative to the humanistic grammar school ; the Realgymnasium known today as Dillmann-Gymnasium became a model institution for the Württemberg school system. Georgii taught Latin, German and history at the Realgymnasium, initially as an assistant teacher, from 1872 as a full-time teacher and high school professor. He was the main philological teacher in classes IX and X. In 1883/84 he gave the lecture on "History and Cultural History" at the Technical University of Stuttgart .

In addition to teaching, Georgii remained scientifically active and published treatises in the school programs of the Realgymnasium (from 1880) as well as independent monographs. In 1876 he attended the meeting of German philologists and school men in Tübingen. On March 6, 1884, on the king's birthday, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Frederick . After more than thirty years of service, he retired on August 10, 1900 for health reasons and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown on this occasion . At the Realgymnasium he set up a Georgii Foundation which, with its interest, “dignified and needy pupils of the VIII. And IX. Class to buy a good book ”made possible.

Georgii's research focused on the commentaries of the ancient grammarians on Virgil's works. He collected and arranged the widely scattered material of the grammarians Aelius Donatus , Servius and Tiberius Claudius Donatus and published his results in several papers. A critical edition of the Virgil interpretation of Tiberius Claudius Donatus (Leipzig 1905-1906) formed the conclusion of his scientific work . This edition was the first to be based on the oldest surviving manuscripts. Georgii had thus provided the critical basis for dealing with this text, which was also appropriately appreciated by the professional world (for example by the reviewers Paul Wessner , Émile Thomas and Eduard Wölfflin ). The edition was reprinted in 1969 and has not been replaced to this day.

Fonts (selection)

• The ancient Aneis criticism made from the scholia and other sources. Stuttgart 1891. Reprint Hildesheim 1971, ISBN 3-8067-0021-4 .
• The ancient critique of Aneis in the commentary of Tiberius Claudius Donatus. Two parts, Stuttgart 1892–1893 (school program).
• The antique criticism of Virgil in the Bukolika and Georgika. Leipzig 1902.
• Tiberi Claudi Donati ad Tiberium Claudium Maximum Donatianum filium suum interpretationes Vergilianae. Primum ad vetustissimorum codicum fidem recognitas edidit Henricus Georgii. 2 volumes, Leipzig 1905–1906. Reprint Stuttgart 1969.

literature

• Program of the Royal High School in Stuttgart at the end of the school year 1900/1901. Stuttgart 1901, p. 63.

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Georgii  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinrich Georgii 's personal file: Baden-Württemberg State Archives, State Archives Department Ludwigsburg, E 203 I Bü 508 ( landesarchiv-bw.de ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} University Archives Tübingen: Repertory for the holdings 40–42, 258–260, 364, 577–578: The Tübingen Students 1818–1918. Older student files from the Academic Rector's Office, signature 40 / 68,141 (No. 12776) ( ub-archiv.uni-tuebingen.de ).
3. ↑ Eberhard E. v. Georgii-Georgenau: Biographical-genealogical sheets from and about Swabia . Stuttgart 1879, pp. 224-237 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
4. ↑ Obituary: Schwäbischer Merkur , December 21, 1860, p. 2405. Restricted preview in the Google book search. Julius Hartmann, Eduard Paulus : Description of the Oberamt Balingen mention his tomb . Stuttgart 1880, p. 268. Digital full-text edition in Wikisource .
5. ↑ Schwäbischer Merkur , 23 August 1856, p. 1394. Restricted preview in the Google book search.
6. ^ Negotiations of the twenty-fourth meeting of German philologists and school men in Heidelberg from September 27 to 30, 1865 . Leipzig 1866, p. 136.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Program of the Royal High School in Stuttgart at the end of the school year 1900/1901 . Stuttgart 1901, p. 63.
8. ^ History of the department: On the history of ancient history at Stuttgart University (accessed on February 9, 2015).
9. ^ Negotiations of the thirty-first meeting of German philologists and schoolmen in Tübingen from September 25 to September 28, 1876. Leipzig 1877, p. VI.
10. ^ Program of the Royal High School in Stuttgart at the end of the school year 1883/1884. Stuttgart 1884, p. 79.
11. ↑ Program of the Royal High School in Stuttgart at the end of the school year 1908/1909. Stuttgart 1909, p. 51.
12. ↑ Berlin Philological Weekly. Volume 26, 1906, 297-307 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
13. ^ Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature. Volume 61, 1906, 26 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
14. ^ Archives for Latin Lexicography and Grammar. Volume 14, 1906, 448 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).