Helmut Apffel

Helmut Apffel (born April 17, 1911 in Düsseldorf ; † January 31, 2007 in Zweibrücken ) was a German philologist , local historian and educator .

Life

Apffel attended school in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and studied philology , history and archeology at the universities of Hamburg and Erlangen .

From April 1954 to July 1975 Apffel was head of the humanistic Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium in Zweibrücken . During this time he was also scientifically active and wrote a number of treatises, the subjects of which were varied - from pedagogy to the constitutional debate with Herodotus to the Palatinate dialect. In 1959 he received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen. phil., after he had submitted his dissertation The Constitutional Debate to Herodotus (3.80-82) (Philosophical Faculty, April 15, 1958). This dissertation received the greatest attention in the professional world.

Apffel was a board member of the historical association in Zweibrücken and played a key role in the reconstruction of the Zweibrücken Castle . He was one of the founders of the " Westrich history meeting". In 1971 the city of Zweibrücken awarded him the city plaque.

Fonts

Monuments to an Immortal Culture (1953)
The educational problem of our time (1955)
Should one be silent about everything? (1959)
Structural change in higher schools? (1965)
The Gymnasium Bipotinum - a home for the humanities (1973)
Memory of Duke Christian IV (1975)
Speech Control and Manipulation (1981)
Do we still have language culture? (1987)
Men of Format (1991)
History Without Borders (1992)

Web links

Literature by and about Helmut Apffel in the catalog of the German National Library
CV and list of works

Individual evidence

↑ For example, B. John G. Gammie 30 years later in his essay Herodotus on Kings and Tyrants. Objective Historiography or Conventional Portraiture? (published in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies , Volume 45, No. 3/1986, Pages 171-195, Ed .: The University of Chicago Press): “The debate has been analyzed most fully in recent times by Helmut Apffel” .

personal data
SURNAME	Apple, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pedagogue, philologist, historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	January 31, 2007
Place of death	Zweibrücken

[1] For example, B. John G. Gammie 30 years later in his essay Herodotus on Kings and Tyrants. Objective Historiography or Conventional Portraiture? (published in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies , Volume 45, No. 3/1986, Pages 171-195, Ed .: The University of Chicago Press): “The debate has been analyzed most fully in recent times by Helmut Apffel” .