Jürgen Kroymann (philologist)

Jürgen Kroymann (born March 31, 1911 in Steglitz ; † November 25, 1980 in Tübingen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Jürgen Kroymann was the son of the classical philologist Emil Kroymann (1865–1951). From 1920 to 1929 he attended the Steglitz high school, the headmaster of which was his father, and then studied classical philology and German at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg . In 1935, he put the state examination in the subjects of Greek, Latin, German and philosophy and was at Werner Jaeger Dr. phil. PhD . His dissertation Sparta and Messenia: Investigations into the Tradition of the Messenian Wars appeared in 1937 in the series New Philological Investigations published by Jaeger (Book 11).

After completing his doctorate, Kroymann worked as an assistant at the philological seminar at the University of Berlin and achieved his habilitation in 1937 with source research for the fourth book of travel descriptions by Pausanias . In the same year he married Dr. Ilse Schoenian, the daughter of bank director Otto Schoenian. In 1938 Kroymann went to the University of Breslau as a senior assistant . After the outbreak of World War II , he was initially not used for service. From 1941 to 1942 he represented the chair for classical philology at the University of Münster . From 1942 Kroymann served in the Wehrmacht, but was part of the teaching staff at the University of Breslau until the end of the war.

After brief captivity, Kroymann moved to Fallingbostel in 1945 . He initially worked as head of the transitional courses at the secondary schools in Walsrode and Soltau (until 1947), as head of the Fallingbostel adult education center (until 1948) and as a lecturer in German language and literature at the British Wyran College in Bomlitz (until 1946). From 1948 to 1949 he completed his legal clerkship at secondary schools in Hanover and Wunstorf .

In 1949 Kroymann was given a lectureship at the University of Tübingen . He rejected the calls from the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Halle (Saale) for full chairs in his subject (1949/1952). In 1954 he took a professorship with a chair for classical philology at the University of Greifswald and a visiting professor at the University of Rostock . He turned down the invitation from the University of Jena to the chair of classical philology (1955). Instead he returned to Tübingen, where he was appointed adjunct professor in 1958 and scientific councilor and professor in 1969 . In 1976 Kroymann retired.

Kroymann is the father of five children, including the lawyer Albrecht Kroymann and the actress and singer Maren Kroymann .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Kroymann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jürgen Kroymann's estate directory at the Tübingen University Archives (with short biography)