Heinrich Krefeld
Heinrich Krefeld (born May 19, 1922 in Warburg ; † December 5, 2019 in Rheine ) was a German classical philologist , didactic specialist and grammar school director.
Life
After returning from the Second World War, Heinrich Krefeld studied Classical Philology and Archeology at the University of Marburg . After the state examination (1951) and doctorate (1952, with Hellfried Dahlmann ), he worked as a high school teacher and head of ancient languages in Dortmund . From 1962 until his retirement in 1986 he was director of the Dionysianum high school in Rheine. At the same time he held lectures on didactics and methodology of classical languages at the University of Münster from 1974 to 1990 (as a lecturer , from 1977 as an honorary professor).
His main research interests were Latin poetry, the didactics and methodology of ancient language teaching, and the importance of antiquity for education. Among other things, he wrote the textbooks Res Romanae (for Latin lessons ) and Hellenika (for Greek lessons ); both are widespread and have been revised several times since their first publication (1959 and 1964) (most recently in 2008 and 2002).
Fonts (selection)
- Love, country life and war at Tibullus . Düsseldorf 1954 (dissertation, Marburg)
- with Heinrich Waterphul: The poems of Archipoeta. Introduction, text and commentary . Heidelberg 1958
- Res Romanae. A companion book for reading Latin . Frankfurt am Main 1959. Numerous revisions. Current edition Berlin 2008
- Hellenika. Introduction to the culture of the Hellenes . Frankfurt am Main 1964. Numerous revisions. Current edition Berlin 2002
- Vocational preparation and basic intellectual training. Today's tasks in high school teaching . Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bonn / Munich 1967
- Interpretations of Latin school authors. With a didactic introduction . Frankfurt am Main 1968. 2nd, revised and expanded edition 1970
- Impulses for reading Latin. From Terence to Thomas More . Frankfurt am Main 1979
- The Archipoeta, Latin and German . Berlin 1992
- Seneca and us. Approaches to the topicality of his teaching . Bamberg 1992
- Ancient Rome. The travel guide, ideal for study trips . Berlin 2009
literature
- Who is who? The German Who's Who . Edition 2006, p. 749
Web links
- Literature by Heinrich Krefeld in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krefeld, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist, didactic specialist and high school director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 2019 |
| Place of death | Rheine |