Immanuel Gottlieb Huschke

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Immanuel Gottlieb Huschke (born January 8, 1761 in Greußen , † February 18, 1828 ibid) was a German classical philologist who worked as a professor at the University of Rostock (1806-1828).

Life

Huschke, the son of a wealthy businessman from Greußen in Thuringia, attended the Pforta state school and studied theology at the University of Jena . Together with his fellow student Friedrich Jacobs , he turned to philology. After the exam, Huschke worked as a tutor for a Livonian landowner, and from 1789 for a German merchant in the Netherlands. There he deepened his philological studies and associated with the philologists Jeronimo de Bosch (1740–1811) and Laurens van Santen (1746–1798).

With the occupation of the Netherlands by the French Revolutionary Army and the proclamation of the Batavian Republic (1795), an academic position opened up for Huschke: Professor Jean Luzac from Leiden , a critic of the French Revolution, had been dismissed from his chair. Huschke was appointed to his successor, accepted the call and gave up his position as private tutor. But because Luzac sued his dismissal in court, Huschke could not be employed and spent a few years waiting.

For financial reasons he left the Netherlands around 1800 and moved to Münden , where he lived in the house of his brother Carl Gottfried Huschke. In 1802 he completed his habilitation at the nearby University of Göttingen and gave lectures on Greek and Latin literature. As he did not receive a salary as a private lecturer, he was dependent on college funds.

It was not until 1806, at the age of 45, that Huschke got a paid job: He was appointed professor of Greek literature at the University of Rostock. He followed the call immediately and worked in Rostock until the end of his life. He refused a renewed call from the University of Leiden in 1807 (after Luzac's death). In 1813 Huschke was appointed professor of eloquence and rector of the university, and in 1816 he was appointed head of the Rostock University Library . In the years 1816 and 1823 he had to take long leave from teaching due to illness. In 1826 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . He died on February 18, 1828, at the age of 67, after a long illness.

Services

In keeping with his academic background, Huschke belonged to the generation of Dutch philologists who pursued philology through collecting and large-scale text editions. His main work is an edition of the Anthologia Palatina (Jena 1800), which was very well received by experts. Then Huschke published treatises and commentaries on Archilochus , the Orphic Argonautica and the Roman poets Tibullus and Properz . Because of his poor health and difficult job situation, he published relatively few writings. His work meant progress for its time, but it became obsolete soon after his death.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Immanuel Gottlieb Huschke. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 22, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Huschke, Immanuel Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Greetings
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1828
Place of death Greetings