Hermann Schrader (philologist)

Hermann Schrader (full name Hermann Ludwig Schrader , born July 3, 1841 in Hamburg , † January 20, 1916 in Weimar ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher. He taught at the Johanneum in Hamburg from 1865 to 1901 .

Life

Hermann Ludwig Schrader attended the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg and from 1860 studied classical philology at the universities of Erlangen and Bonn , where he studied with prominent philologists Otto Jahn and Friedrich Ritschl . From the winter semester 1862/63 to the summer semester 1863 he was a member of the Philological Association, an association of philology students from which many deserving researchers emerged. His fellow students included Friedrich Blass , Wilhelm Brambach , Karl Dziatzko , Eduard Hiller , Otto Korn , Otto Richter as well as Heinrich Bubendey and Wilhelm Wagner , who were later his colleagues at the Johanneum. Together with his fellow students, Schrader published a commemorative publication for Ritschl in 1864 on the occasion of his 25th anniversary in Bonn, the Liber miscellaneus .

During his studies, Schrader dealt with numerous disciplines and areas of ancient studies , for example with epigraphy (with Ritschl) and archeology (with Jahn). One of his main research interests was ancient drama, to which Schrader devoted his first studies. After his dissertation and his first article in the Ritschl Festschrift, he published articles in specialist journals, for example in the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie and Fleckeisen's yearbooks for classical philology , published by Ritschl, and later also in the Philologus and Hermes .

After graduating as Dr. phil. In 1864 Schrader returned to Hamburg and was a candidate for education at the Johanneum Scholars' School. On October 1, 1865, he was employed as an assistant teacher at the Johanneum Realschule. At Easter 1869 he switched to the grammar school department, the scholarly school, as a full teacher, where he taught Greek, Latin and German for over thirty years. During this time he continued his scientific work without interruption. In 1901 he retired and moved to Weimar, where he died 15 years later at the age of 74.

Scientific work

Schrader has dealt with wide areas of Greek literature since his studies in Bonn. His focus was on Greek tragedy and comedy, the scholias on ancient epic and dramatic poetry and the preoccupation of the ancient grammarians, sophists and philosophers with the Homeric epics.

Schrader treated Greek tragedy and comedy in his earliest writings. In his doctoral thesis he examined the text-critical signs of the ancient grammarians, which appear in the tradition of Greek stage poetry. His contribution to the Ritschl Festschrift, which appeared at the same time, concerned an aspect of theater practice, the draw for the actors in Athens. In further essays, Schrader examined further individual aspects of the theater, for example an essay on the appreciation of the deus ex machina of the Greek tragedy (1867/68), in which he discussed the ancient drama of this trick, the judgments of ancient scholars about it and the modern (derogatory) use of the Conceptually differentiated.

In addition to these studies, Schrader also dealt with art archeology and Greek philosophy. In 1868 he published a book about The Sirens according to their importance and artistic representation in antiquity , which he dedicated to Otto Jahn and Johannes Classen , the rector of the Johanneum. In the same year his essay appeared on the sources of the pseudo-Aristotelian script Περὶ θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων .

Just as long Schrader occupied himself with his second research focus, the ancient scholia literature. In 1867 Otto Jahn arranged for him a collation of Venetus A , an important Iliad manuscript with numerous ancient scholia. Schrader collected among these scholia especially those that came from the Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyrios . He published a sample of his edition in 1872 in the school program of the Johanneum. The complete edition was published in two volumes by Teubner-Verlag in 1880/82 . In 1890 an edition of the Odyssey Scholias followed there . As a by-product of these studies, Schrader published various articles in professional journals.

In the course of his studies of the ancient Homerscholien Schrader came to the ancient grammarians and sophists and their writings on the Homeric epics. He published essays on Plutarch's Homerudien and his Homer-Vita and on the Homerudien of the grammarist Telephos of Pergamon .

Fonts (selection)

• De notatione critica a veteribus grammaticis in poetis scaenicis adhibita . Bonn 1864 (dissertation)
• De sortitione actorum scaenicorum apud Athenienses . In: Liber miscellaneus editus a societate philologica Bonnensi . Bonn 1864, pp. 1-10
• In honor of the deus ex machina of Greek tragedy . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . Volume 22 (1867), pp. 544-564
• In appreciation of the deus ex machina of Greek tragedy (conclusion) . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . Vol. 23 (1868), pp. 103-126
• The sirens according to their importance and artistic representation in antiquity . Berlin 1868
• About the Porphyry Iliad Scholien together with an edition of the Iliad Γ related . Hamburg 1872 (school program)
• Porphyrii Quaestionum Homericarum ad Iliadem pertinentium reliquias collegit, disposuit, edidit Hermannus Schrader . 2 fascicles, Leipzig 1880–1882
• Quaestionum peripateticarum particula . Hamburg 1884
• Porphyrii Quaestionum Homericarum ad Odysseam pertinentium reliquias collegit, disposuit, edidit Hermannus Schrader . Leipzig 1890
• De archaeologiae Thucydideae apud veteres auctoritate . Hamburg 1891
• De Plutarchi Chaeronensis Ὁμηρικαῖς μελέταίς et de eiusdem quae fertur vita Homeri . Gotha 1899
• Telephos the Pergamener περὶ τῆς καθ 'Ὅμηρον ῥητορικῆς . In: Hermes . Volume 37 (1902), pp. 530-581

literature

• Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Leipzig 1871, p. 518
• Wilhelm Pökel : Philological writer's lexicon . Leipzig 1882, p. 250
• Bonn district 1854–2000 . Edited by Thomas Schönenbroicher with the collaboration of Marcus Beck, Joachim Birken, Cornelius Schiller and Hartmut Wilms. Bonn 2000, p. 17 (No. 61)

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Schrader  - Sources and full texts