Heinrich Ulrichs

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Heinrich Nicolaus Ulrichs (born September 8, 1807 in Bremen , † October 10, 1843 in Athens ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Ulrichs, son of a Bremen wine merchant, studied classical philology in Leipzig from 1827 , and in Bonn and Munich from 1828 . In Bonn he had been a member of the Corps Rhenania since 1829 . He obtained his doctorate in 1831. phil. and in 1833 accompanied King Otto to Greece , which was newly established as an independent state , where he first became a Latin teacher at the Aegina grammar school, which was moved to Athens in 1834 . In 1837 he became a full professor of the Latin language at the newly founded University of Athens . He was co-director of the philosophical seminar and member of the commission for the drafting of university laws. Shortly before his death in 1843 he was dismissed like all German civil servants in the wake of nationalist currents. Numerous trips have taken him through the country and his travels and research are still an important source of regional history. Ulrichs had been married to Christine, a daughter of the Bremen Senator Johann Carl Friedrich Gildemeister , since 1836 . The shipbuilder Hermann Friedrich Ulrichs in Bremen-Vegesack was his younger brother.

Fonts

  • Latin grammar in modern Greek. Athens 1835.
  • Latin reading book. 2 volumes. Athens 1836.
  • Travel and research in Greece. 2 volumes. Heyse, Bremen 1840; Weidmann, Berlin 1863 ( online ).
  • Lexicon Latino Graecum. Athens 1843 ( online ).
  • Topography of the ports of Athens. Munich 1843.
  • The Temple of Ergane on the Acropolis of Athens. Munich 1843.

literature

  • Friedrich Koldewey :  Ulrichs, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 259-261.
  • Register of the Bonn der Rhenanen 1820-1970 . Bonn undated, p. 28.
  • Thomas Elsmann: Heinrich Nikolaus Ulrichs - The first of his subject , in: Thomas Elsmann: Im Schatten des Kaufmanns, Bremische Gelehre 1600-1900 , Bremen: Schüneman, 2012, pp. 152–171, 238 (with illus. And other literature).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Passow , in: Heinrich Ulrichs: Travel and research in Greece. Part 2. Weidmann, Berlin 1863, p. XIV.
  2. ^ Arnold Passow, in: Heinrich Ulrichs: Travel and research in Greece. Part 2. Weidmann, Berlin 1863, p. XI.
personal data
SURNAME Ulrichs, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulrichs, Heinrich Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1843
Place of death Athens