Hermann Bonitz

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Hermann Bonitz, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1857
Hermann Bonitz

Hermann Bonitz (born July 29, 1814 in Langensalza (Thuringia), † July 25, 1888 in Berlin ) was a philologist, philosopher and school reformer in Vienna and Berlin.

Life

Born as the sixth child of the pastor and superintendent Karl Friedrich Bonitz and his mother Maria Sophia Bonitz b. Schmalkalden, after attending the state school in Schulpforta , a former Cistercian monastery near Naumburg, he studied philosophy, philology, theology and mathematics at the University of Leipzig and philology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1835 he married Bertha Maria Semmel from Gera, she was the daughter of the Gera mayor, merchant and manor owner Marcus Friedrich Semmel (1751-1801). After receiving his doctorate in Leipzig in 1836, he worked in school until 1849, first as a teacher in Dresden , from 1838 as a senior teacher in Berlin, and from 1842 as a grammar school professor in Stettin.

In 1849, through Franz Serafin Exner, he was appointed professor of classical philology at the University of Vienna . Together with Exner, he drafted the reform, carried out under Education Minister Leo Graf Thun-Hohenstein , to create an 8-class grammar school with the “Matura exam”. In 1867, Hermann Bonitz moved back to Berlin when he was appointed director of the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster and director of the Royal Pedagogical Seminar for learned schools. From 1875 he was a secret councilor and lecturer at the Ministry of Education. Since 1850 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1867 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

In 1888 Hermann Bonitz retired from working life as a secret senior government councilor and died on July 25, 1888 in Berlin shortly before his 74th birthday. The sculptor Carl Kundmann designed a group of monuments in the Vienna arcade courtyard of the main university building, which is dedicated to the reformers of the Austrian educational system, Leo Graf Thun-Hohenstein, Franz Exner and Hermann Bonitz

In 1954, Bonitzgasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him.

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Together with Franz Serafin Exner, Bonitz played a decisive role in reforming the school system in Vienna and Berlin. His extensive works on Plato and Aristotle , his Index Aristotelicus , (Berlin 1870), the Platonic Studies (1875, 1886) and his translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics (Berlin 1890) became standard works in the humanities.

Fonts

  • Disputationes Platonicae Duae (1837); Platonic Studies (3rd ed., 1886)
  • Observationes Criticae in Aristotelis Libros Metaphysicos (1842)
  • Observationes Criticae in Aristotelis quae feruntur Magna Moralia et Ethica Eudemia (1844)
  • Alexandri Aphrodisiensis Commentarius in Libros Metaphysicos Aristotelis (1847)
  • Aristotelis Metaphysica (1848–1849)
  • About the categories of A. (1853)
  • Aristotelian Studies (1862–1867)
  • Index Aristotelicus (1870)
  • On the origin of the Homeric poems (5th edition, edited by R. Neubauer, 1881)
  • Contributions to the declaration of Thucydides (1854), Sophocles (1856-1857)

A complete list of his writings can be found at Theodor Gomperz in biographical yearbook for Archeology (1890).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Bonitz's membership entry at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 28, 2016.
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Hermann Bonitz. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 25, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Bonitz, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, philosopher and school reformer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Langensalza
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1888
Place of death Berlin