Jacob Pley

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Jakob Pley (born October 31, 1886 in Untermaubach ; † August 15, 1974 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German classical philologist , religious scholar and high school teacher.

Life

Jakob Pley, the son of the secondary school teacher Barthel (Bartholomäus) Pley and Luise geb. Hermanns († 1892), attended high schools in Gelsenkirchen , Düren and Steele and studied classical philology at the University of Münster in Westphalia from the summer semester of 1906 . He spent the summer semester of 1907 in Bonn and the winter semester of 1907/08 in Berlin . He completed his studies in Münster with the teaching examination in the subjects Latin, Greek and German (July 5, 1911) and the doctorate to Dr. phil. (July 25, 1911).

Immediately after graduation, Pley entered the Prussian school service. He spent the seminar year in 1911/12 at the royal seminary in Kreuznach, the probationary year 1912/13 at the grammar school in Düren . Nothing is known about its use between 1913 and 1920. On October 1, 1920 he was given a permanent position as a teacher at the Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria-Gymnasium in Euskirchen . On April 1, 1928, he moved in the same capacity to the Kaiserin Augusta-Gymnasium in Koblenz and on October 1, 1935 to the Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer in Kreuznach, where he worked until his retirement (October 31, 1951).

Jakob Pley was born with Emma Sieger married and had two sons, including the geography teacher Herbert Pley (1919-2016).

In addition to his work at the school, Pley was also active in research, especially in the field of ancient Greek religion and cult practice. His dissertation on various rituals, suggested and supervised by Wilhelm Kroll , appeared in the series Religious-historical experiments and preparatory work and was critically reviewed by Otto Weinreich , among others . In the 1910s and 1920s Pley wrote several articles for Paulys Realenzyklopädie der Classical Antiquities , including on the Heraclids (together with Julius Tambornino ), the practice of temple sleep (incubation) and Memnon . In 1933 he published a school text edition of Sallust 's De coniuratione Catilinae .

Fonts (selection)

  • De lanae in antiquorum ritibus usu . Gießen 1911 (= attempts at religious history and preliminary work 11.2; also dissertation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
  • Gaius Sallustius Crispus: Bellum Catilinae . Paderborn / Würzburg 1933 (= Schöningh's Latin classics 16b)

literature

  • Yearbook for the higher education system of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . School year 1972/73; 1974/75

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to Jakob Pley's personal card ( memento of the original from January 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the library for educational history research . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bbf.dipf.de
  2. ↑ Date and place of death according to information from the Bad Kreuznach city archive on July 1, 2015.
  3. ↑ For the identity of the son, see his vita in the dissertation of gardening and field vegetable growing on the central Lower Rhine . Bonn 1958; the life data according to an obituary notice in the Rheinische Post on August 6, 2016, accessed on February 3, 2017.
  4. ↑ Otto Weinreich: Review of Jakob Pley, De lanae in antiquorum ritibus usu . In: Hessian sheets for folklore . Volume 12 (1913), pp. 227-232 = The same: Selected writings . Volume 1, Amsterdam 1971, pp. 236-243.
personal data
SURNAME Pley, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, religious scholar and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Untermaubach
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 1974
Place of death Bad Kreuznach