Hermann Köchly

Portrait photo Hermann Köchly

Hermann August Theodor Köchly (born August 5, 1815 in Leipzig ; † December 3, 1876 in Trieste ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

The grave of Hermann Köchly is adorned with a palmette crowned marble stele on the Professorenweg of the Heidelberg mountain cemetery

Hermann Köchly attended the Princely School in Grimma (1827–1832) and studied from 1832 in Leipzig. In 1837 he became a teacher at the Progymnasium in Saalfeld, and in 1840 at the Kreuzschule in Dresden . In February 1849 he was elected to the Saxon Second Chamber and took part in the Dresden May uprising , which is why he had to flee to Brussels . From Easter 1851 he taught as a professor of classical philology at the University of Zurich (where he was rector from 1856/57 ) and from 1864 at the University of Heidelberg . On his return from a trip to Greece he died of a fall from his horse on December 3, 1876 in Trieste.

His tomb in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof (lit. D) bears a tall, narrow pillar made of white marble with a top adorned with acanthus-decorated palmettes. The Greek inscription on the pillar front translates as: "Hermann Köchly - whatever he longed to see Athens in his old age - saw the deathless." A memorial plaque was dedicated to Köchly, which is attached to the facade of his former home at Bergstrasse 30 in Heidelberg.

As a result of his work for the reorganization of the school system, in which the writings On the Principle of High School Teaching of the Present (Dresden 1845), On High School Reform (Dresden 1846), Mixed Papers on High School Reform (Dresden 1847), he was merged in December 1848 commissioned with four other experts to work out a draft of a general school law for the Kingdom of Saxony , which he later published (Leipzig 1850). From 1871 to 1873 he was a member of the German Reichstag , where he joined the German Progressive Party.

In the field of philology, he made particular contributions to the Greek epic poets and the ancient military writers. In the former relationship he provided critical editions of Quintus Smyrnaeus (Leipzig 1850; text edition, Leipzig 1853) and Hesiod (with Gottfried Kinkel , Leipzig 1870; text edition, Leipzig 1870), an edition of Aratus, Manethonis, Maximi et allorum astrologica with a Latin translation ( Paris 1851), text editions of the Apotelesmata des Pseudo- Manetho (Leipzig 1858) and the Dionysiacs des Nonnos (Leipzig 1858, 2 volumes); finally: De Iliadis carminibus dissertationes VII (Zurich 1850–59), followed by an edition of Iliadis carmina XVI (Leipzig 1861), De diversis Hesiodeae Theogoniae partibus (Zurich 1860), De Odysseae carminibus dissertationes tres (Zurich 1862–63), Opuscula epica IV (Zurich 1864) and others

According to the second direction, he published:

History of the Greek Warfare (Aarau 1852),
Greek war writers, Greek and German, with critical and explanatory comments (Leipzig 1853–55, 2 volumes),
Introduction to Caesar's commentaries on the Gallic War (Gotha 1857), all with Wilhelm Rustow .

There is also an edition of Euripides ' Iphigenia in Taurien with German annotations (Berlin 1853, 3rd edition 1872) and translations, especially by Caesar (together with Rustow), most recently by Aeschylus ' Persians (originally to the music of the Hereditary Prince of Meiningen printed as a manuscript; later edited by Karl Bartsch , Berlin 1880), and a biography of his teacher Gottfried Hermann (Berlin 1874).

Some of his smaller writings are collected in Opuscula academica (Leipzig 1853–56, 2 volumes) and in Academic Lectures and Speeches (Zurich 1856; new series, edited by von Bartsch, Heidelberg 1882). Kinkel and Böckel obtained a collection of his small philological writings: Opuscula philologica (Leipzig 1881–82, 2 volumes).

Heinrich Düntzer published Adolf Kirchhoff , Köchly and the Odyssey (Cologne 1872).

literature

Arnold Hug : Hermann Köchly. Lecture given in Aarau on October 6, 1877 at the annual meeting of the Association of Swiss Grammar School Teachers. Schweighausen, Basel 1878.
Arnold Hug: Köchly, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 410-414.
Peter Wirth : Köchly, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 294 ( digitized version ).
Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . (Ed.): Rectorate of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität-Heidelberg. Springer Berlin Heidelberg Tokyo. 2012. 324 pp. ISBN 978-3642707612

Individual evidence

↑ Leena Ruuskanen : The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages (= series of publications of the Heidelberg City Archives. Special publication. Vol. 18). Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-518-7 , p. 130.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Köchly - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Hermann Köchly in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Hermann Köchly in the German Digital Library
Köchly, Hermann August Theodor in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Hermann August Theodor Koechly . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Overview of Hermann Köchly's courses at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1850 to winter semester 1863)

personal data
SURNAME	Köchly, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Köchly, Hermann August Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist and politician (DFP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	August 5, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	December 3, 1876
Place of death	Trieste

[1] Leena Ruuskanen : The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages (= series of publications of the Heidelberg City Archives. Special publication. Vol. 18). Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-518-7 , p. 130.