Ida Kapp

Ida Ernestina Kapp (born June 15, 1884 in Unna , † May 23, 1979 in Planegg ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Ida Kapp, a granddaughter of the philosopher Ernst Kapp (1808–1896), prepared privately for the matriculation examination and then studied classical philology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . Her fellow students included her younger brother Ernst Kapp (1888–1978) and Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1885–1916), her academic teachers Hermann Diels , Eduard Norden and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , whose first female doctoral student she became. Her dissertation, with which she was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD , contained a collection of fragments to Callimachos ' epic Hekale (Callimachi Hecalae fragmenta) .

After graduating, Ida Kapp got a position at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, where she worked from February 1, 1916. On April 1, 1930 she was appointed editor. On March 31, 1962, she retired, but remained associated with the thesaurus editorial team. She had written articles for volumes V 1 – VII 2 and was the editor in charge of volume V 2 (letter E), where she made the highest demands on the quality of the articles.

Her colleagues and friends published a commemorative publication on her 70th birthday. The Bavarian Academy of Sciences awarded Ida Kapp the "Bene merenti" medal . The last years of her life were overshadowed by a serious traffic accident, the consequences of which she limited more and more. She died after years of inpatient treatment in a surgical clinic in Planegg .

literature

• Otto Hiltbrunner , Hildegard Kornhardt , Franz Tietze (eds.): Thesaurismata. Festschrift for Ida Kapp on her 70th birthday. C. H. Beck, Munich 1954.
• Otto Hiltbrunner: Ida Kapp (1884–1979) . In: Eikasmós . Volume 4 (1993), pp. 233-237.
• Theodor Bögel : Thesaurus Stories. Contributions to a Historia Thesauri linguae Latinae with an appendix: Directory of persons 1893–1995 . Edited by Dietfried Krömer and Manfred Flieger. Teubner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8154-7101-X , p. 220.