Heinz Papenhoff (classical philologist)

Heinz Papenhoff (born May 12, 1931 in Bochum ; † March 4, 2000 in Hanover ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Heinz Papenhoff (center) and Johannes Gappa (right), 1969

Heinz Papenhoff attended elementary school and the Ratsgymnasium in Hanover, where his family had moved in 1935. After graduating from school, he studied Classical Philology and Ancient History at the University of Göttingen from the 1950 summer semester . At the suggestion of Kurt Latte , he dealt with the tradition of the Deipnosophistai of Athenaios , on which he wrote his doctoral thesis. During his work he was also advised by Hartmut Erbse in Hamburg. In 1954 he received his doctorate , on June 25, 1954 he passed the first state examination.

After completing his studies, Papenhoff completed his legal clerkship in Hanover and was employed on October 1, 1956 as a study assessor at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium. In addition to his teaching activities, he worked for several years as a freelancer at the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

At the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium , Papenhoff was appointed to the teaching staff on August 1, 1960, to the senior teaching officer in 1968 and to the director of studies in 1970. At the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education, he was a state advisor for Latin. On February 7, 1972 he was appointed director of the Ratsgymnasium in Hanover, where he worked until his retirement (August 1, 1993).

Services

Heinz Papenhoff also stood out through specialist and didactic publications. Besides his fundamental study on Athenaios (1954) and some articles in the real encyclopedia of classical antiquity , he published textbooks and exercise books for teaching Latin. Together with StR Johannes Gappa (December 10, 1931 - May 28, 2019) he presented a revision of the textbook Ianua Linguae Latinae in the 1960s . In the 1970s, both published a new version under the title Ianua Nova , which was reprinted several times and remained in use in Lower Saxony's high schools until the turn of the millennium. The textbook Ianua Nova is accompanied by the exercise book Exercitationes Novae .

Fonts (selection)

• On the problem of the dependence of the epitome on the Venetian manuscript of Athenaeus . Göttingen 1954 (with curriculum vitae)

literature

• Vinko Hinz: Much more than the Ianua Nova: The latte student and school director Dr. Heinz Papenhoff . In: Annual issue of the association of the 'Göttingen Friends of Ancient Literature' 17 (2018), pp. 12-25

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Papenhoff in the catalog of the German National Library