Johann Christian Felix Bähr
Johann Christian Felix Bähr (born June 13, 1798 in Darmstadt ; † November 29, 1872 in Heidelberg ) was a German classical philologist and director of the Heidelberg University Library .
Life
Bähr was the son of the Baden prelate Johannes Bähr . He studied at the University of Heidelberg from 1815 and was able to successfully complete this course in 1819 with a doctorate . In 1821 Bähr became associate professor in Classical Philology and two years later full professor in the same discipline.
In 1832 Bähr was promoted to senior librarian and thus director of the Heidelberg University Library. From this time on, Bähr, together with Georg August Muncke and Friedrich Christoph Schlosser , was the publisher of the Heidelberg Literature Yearbooks .
When Friedrich Creuzer resigned his offices in 1845, Bähr was appointed as his successor to head the philological seminar. In 1846 he was appointed Privy Councilor .
Christian Bähr died at the age of 74 on November 29, 1872 in Heidelberg.
reception
Bähr's main work is his extremely detailed “Roman literary history”, to which he later added a volume “Christian writers and historians” to the three volumes. His translations of Herodotus , Ktesias von Knidos and Plutarch were also considered exemplary by Bähr's contemporaries (also because of the comments).
Works (selection)
- De Apolline patricio et Minerva primigenia Atheniensium . Heidelberg: Mohr & Winter, 1820. Dissertation.
- Plutarch's "Alkibiades" . Heidelberg 1822
- Fragments of the Ktesias of Knidos . Frankfurt 1824
- Philopoemen; Flaminius; Plutarchus; Pyrrhus . Leipzig: Hahn, 1826.
- The Christian-Roman theology . Karlsruhe 1837
- History of Roman Literature in the Carolingian Age . Karlsruhe 1840
- Herodotus (2nd edition, Leipz. 1855–61)
- History of Roman Literature . Karlsruhe 1868/70 (3 vol.)
- The Christian poets and historians of Rome . Karlsruhe 1872 (supplement of the previous one)
literature
- Karl Bernhard Stark : Bähr, Johann Christian Felix . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 769-772.
- Karl Bernhard Stark: Bähr, Johann Christian Felix . In: Friedrich von Weech (ed.): Badische Biographieen . Volume 3 (1881), pp. 32-35
- Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberg scholars lexicon . 1803-1932. Springer, Berlin et al. 1986, ISBN 0-387-15856-1 , p. 18 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Christian Felix Bähr in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Christian Bähr in the catalog of the Berlin State Library
First chair: Friedrich Creuzer (1800–1845) | Leonhard Spengel (1841–1847) | Hermann Köchly (1864–1876) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1877–1886) | Erwin Rohde (1886–1898) | Otto Crusius (1898–1903) | Albrecht Dieterich (1903–1908) | Franz Boll (1908–1924) | Otto Regenbogen (1925–1935) | Hildebrecht Hommel (1937–1945) | Otto Regenbogen (1945–1959) | Franz Dirlmeier (1959–1970) | Herwig Görgemanns (1972–1997)
Second chair: August Boeckh (1807–1811) | Heinrich Voss (1809–1822) | Johann Christian Felix Bähr (1823–1872) | Uvo Hölscher (1962–1970) | Albrecht Dihle (1974–1989) | Glenn W. Most (1991-2001) | Jonas Grethlein (since 2008)
Third chair: Karl Ludwig Kayser (1863–1872) | Otto Ribbeck (1872–1877) | Fritz Schöll (1877–1918) | Otto Weinreich (1918–1921) | Karl Meister (1921–1949) | Viktor Pöschl (1950–1976) | Hubert Petersmann (1981-2001) | Gerrit Kloss (since 2003)
Fourth chair: Michael von Albrecht (1964–1999) | Jürgen Paul Schwindt (since 2000)
Chair of Papyrology: Dieter Hagedorn (1981–2001) | Andrea Jördens (since 2004)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bähr, Johann Christian Felix |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bähr, Christian; Baehr, Johann Christian Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 1872 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |