Hugo Ilberg

Friedrich Theodor Hugo Ilberg (born July 24, 1828 in Hohenmölsen , † November 30, 1883 in Dresden ) was a German high school director.

Life

Ilberg was the son of a magistrate who later became a district judge in Kölleda and Belgern . After being prepared by a private tutor, he attended the Pforta State School from 1843 to 1849 . His local teachers Karl Kirchner , Karl Steinhart , August Koberstein and Karl Keil influenced him significantly, so that Ilberg decided to study classical philology after graduating . He moved to the nearby University of Halle , where he especially heard Gottfried Bernhardy and the then private lecturer Heinrich Keil . After three semesters, he moved to the University of Bonn in autumn 1850 , where his academic teachers were Friedrich Ritschl , Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker , Christian August Brandis , Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann , Karl Schaarschmidt and Jacob Bernays . He also made his first scientific attempts in Bonn: Together with his fellow student Theodor Hug , he submitted a solution to the award task in which the fragments of Quintus Ennius, including an investigation, were to be explained as the poet's résumé and writing technique. However, this work only received second prize; The winner was the future Ennius specialist Johannes Vahlen .

After the senior teacher examination in autumn 1852, Ilberg moved to Berlin, where he began his probationary year at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium under the rector Karl Ferdinand Ranke . But after only three months he received a call to the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Stettin , where he worked for four years under the rectors Karl Hasselbach and Karl Ludwig Peter . His teaching colleagues included Hermann Rassow , Gustav Wendt , Franz Kern and Richard Volkmann . During his time in Szczecin, Ilberg married Klara Weisswang, the daughter of a deceased court clerk in Schwarzenberg in the Ore Mountains . In 1857 they moved to Magdeburg , where Ilberg had received a teaching position at the grammar school and Konvikt of the monastery of Our Dear Women . In 1861 Ilberg moved to Weimar to the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium , whose director, his former colleague Hermann Rassow, appointed him deputy principal.

Grave of Ilberg in the St. Pauli cemetery in Dresden

Despite frequent changes of location, Ilberg's reputation as a teacher had spread to such an extent that he was given a director's position in Zwickau as early as 1862 . Here he experienced the German War (1866) and the Franco-German War (1870/1871). In 1871 he switched to the St. Afra grammar school in Meißen as director , and in 1874 to the royal grammar school in Dresden Neustadt. In recognition of his services, the Saxon Ministry of Education appointed him a secret school councilor in 1879. In the years that followed, his health deteriorated rapidly, also due to the excessive workload. In addition to rheumatic joint pain, he suffered a severe stroke on March 24, 1883, from which he barely recovered. He asked for a retirement and went to the health resort of St. Blasien in the Black Forest , where he had another attack in July. On November 30, 1883, he died of a third stroke. Ilberg was buried in the St. Pauli cemetery in Dresden.

Hugo Ilberg is less important as a scientist than as a high school teacher. His reputation, his pedagogical skills and his commitment to his office made him known beyond the boundaries of his respective sphere of activity. His son, the later classical philologist Johannes Ilberg , published the anthology Friedrich Theodor Hugo Ilberg in 1885 : Memories of his life and work, for his friends and students , which also included selected Latin and German school speeches as well as Latin poems by his father.

literature

• Ferdinand Sander:  Ilberg, Friedrich Theodor Hugo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 743-745.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ He submitted this prize paper as a dissertation in 1852: Q. Ennii Annalium libri primi fragmenta emendata disposita illustrata .