Joachim Marquardt
Karl Joachim Marquardt (born April 19, 1812 in Danzig ; † November 30, 1882 in Gotha ) was a German high school teacher , classical philologist and historian .
He studied at the University of Berlin from 1830 . In 1833 he was qualified to teach and was initially an assistant teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin in 1834 , and a teacher at the grammar school in Danzig in 1836. In 1840 he received his doctorate in Königsberg . In 1856 he became director of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Posen , from 1859 he was director of the Gymnasium Ernestinum in Gotha. In 1875 he was accepted as a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .
His main works were Roman State Administration , The Private Life of the Romans and (with Wilhelm Adolf Becker ) the Handbook of Roman Antiquities .
As a professor at Gotha grammar school, he followed in the footsteps of Johann Georg August Galletti as the creator of numerous catheter blossoms . Marquardt's Sprüche were published in Gotha in 1911 under the title Marquardtiana .
The following can be traced back to Marquardt:
- The Pegasus is the heaviest thing you can ride.
- In England the queen is always a woman.
- What Cicero said is correct; but what he did not say is wrong.
His estate is in the Gotha Research Library .
Portrait medal
- Bronze medal 1882, 45 mm, on his death on November 30, 1882, medalist: Friedrich Ferdinand Helfricht (1809-1892). Front: JOACHIM <> MARQUARDT --- Unclothed bust with whiskers to the right, signed : HELFRICHT F. Back: Between laurel branches seven lines of text: GEB. TO / DANZIG / 19 APRIL 1812 / GEST. TO / GOTHA / NOVEMBER 30/1882
The medal was created by Ferdinand Helfricht . The grammar school in Gotha acquired 50 of these medals to be awarded to primary school students.
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the SAW: Carl Joachim Marquardt. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 14, 2016 .
- ^ Behrendt Pick : The work of the Gotha stamp cutter Ferdinand Helfricht. Gotha 1916, no.147.
- ↑ Stefan Krmnicek, Marius Gaidys: Taught images. Classical scholars on 19th century medals. Accompanying volume to the online exhibition in the Digital Coin Cabinet of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen (= From Croesus to King Wilhelm. New Series, Volume 3). University Library Tübingen, Tübingen 2020, p. 84 f. ( online ).
literature
- Marquardtiana. Flashes of inspiration in the guise of comedy of the secret high school councilor Dr. K. Joachim Marquardt; with portrait and reproduction of the commemorative coin minted to commemorate Marquardt. Hartung, Gotha 1909. ( digitized version ).
- Ernst Förstemann : Marquardt, Joachim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 413-416.
- Jochen Bleicken : Marquardt, Joachim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 245 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Kai Brodersen , Introduction to: Joachim Marquardt, Das Privatleben der Römer , new edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2016, p. V-viii, ISBN 978-3-534-26770-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Joachim Marquardt in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.galletti.de/kollegen.htm German Galletti page - More samples from the Marquardtiana
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marquardt, Joachim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marquardt, Karl Joachim (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German high school teacher, classical philologist and ancient historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1882 |
| Place of death | Gotha |