Heinrich crowd

Heinrich Quantity (born June 19, 1838 in Aachen , † after 1904) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher .

From 1860 to 1864 he was a full teacher at the grammar school in Andernach , then at the grammar schools in Düsseldorf and Koblenz , then director of the Catholic grammar school in Glogau and from 1882 to 1891 director of the grand ducal grammar school in Mainz . In retirement he lived in Bonn .

Quantity was editor of the critical edition of Euclid's works at BG Teubner Verlag with Johan Ludvig Heiberg . In particular, he published the Data of Euclid with the commentary by Marinos of Neapolis in Volume 6. After the edition of Quantity, Clemens Thaer published a German translation of the Data and GL MacDowell and MA Sokolik an English translation in 1962 .

Fonts

Archimedes' parabolic squaring . Andernach grammar school 1863 ( full text ).

Archimedes' circle measurement together with Eutocius from Ascalon Commentar. In: Program Gymnasium Koblenz . 1874, pp. 4–15 with 1 plate

Individual evidence

↑ Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. pdf , gives the program of the Andernach grammar school in 1904 as the source.

Web links

Personnel sheet from Heinrich Quantity in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

personal data
SURNAME	Crowd, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Crowd, Henricus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	after 1904

[1] Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. pdf , gives the program of the Andernach grammar school in 1904 as the source.