Heinrich Stephan Sedlmayer

Heinrich Stephan Sedlmayer (born December 26, 1855 in Brno , † July 22, 1928 in Vienna ) was a Moravian-Austrian classical philologist and high school teacher .

Life

Born as the son of the Brno school director Anton Sedlmayer, Heinrich Stephan Sedlmayer studied classical philology at the University of Vienna from 1874 to 1878 after attending the German grammar school in Brno . His academic teachers included Wilhelm von Hartel , Emanuel Hoffmann and Karl Schenkl . In 1879 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate and passed the teaching examination for Latin and Greek.

Sedlmayer's first professional career took him to the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna and, from 1881 to 1884, to the Staatsgymnasium Wien-Hernals . From 1884 until his retirement in 1918 he was a teacher at the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium in the 1st district of Vienna. In 1886 the founders of the Academic Association Symposion, later the Corps Symposion Vienna , which had been his students at the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium, awarded him honorary membership. After his retirement until his death, he remained connected to the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium in various functions.

Like his teacher colleague at the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium Joseph Maria Stowasser , Sedlmayer combined excellent technical competence with outstanding pedagogical skills. He published various, partly text-critical editions of Ovid's poems . His school edition of Ovid's poems, first published in 1883, was published almost unchanged for over 100 years. With August von Scheidler he developed teaching works based on new methodical approaches.

Karl Kraus set an eternal monument to Heinrich Stephan Sedlmeayer, his teacher in German (1886–88) and Latin (1891–92), in a Horazi ode. With the words: " But I thank you German because I learned Latin. " He expressed Sedelmayer's formative influence on his life.

Study trips

Sedlmayer toured Italy as a student from 1880–81 and 1885–86, Switzerland in 1881 and France in 1893.

Awards

• 1908, appointed to the school board
• 1917, award of the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order

plant

• Prolegomena critica ad Heroides Ovidianas , 1878
• Critical Commentary on Ovid's Heroids , 1881
• Contributions to the history of Ovid studies in the Middle Ages . In: Wiener Studien 6, 1884
• Latin exercise books . Together with A. Scheindler, 1895ff.
• Plato's speech in defense of Socrates . Translated and explained, 1899
• Published by: Publius Ovidius Naso, Carmina selecta , 1883ff .;
• Edited together with Otto Güthling and Anton Zingerle : Publius Ovidius Naso, Carmina , 3 volumes, 1884
• Editor of: Publii Ovidi Nasonis Heroides , with text-critical apparatus, 1886
• Published by: Publii Ovidi Nasonis Heroides , 1896

literature

• Reitterer H .:  Sedlmayer Heinrich Stephan. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 92.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 136 , 6

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Stephan Sedlmayer in the catalog of the German National Library