Johann Friedrich Dübner

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Johann Friedrich Dübner (French: Jean Frédéric Dübner) (born December 20, 1802 in Hörselgau , † October 13, 1867 in Montreuil near Paris ) was a German classical philologist . Dübner was born out of wedlock to Johanna Sophia Elisabeth Dübner, the daughter of the Tenneberg nursing clerk (official / court clerk) Johann Christoph Dübner. In 1815 his mother married Johann Michael Krieg in Gotha.

Life

Because his mother could not devote herself to raising Dübner, the mayor of Hörselgau took care of him and sent eleven-year-old Johann Friedrich to a grammar school in Gotha on March 2, 1814. One of his classmates was the future German poet , Heinrich Wilhelm Stieglitz . From 1821 Dübner studied philology at the University of Göttingen ( "Georgia Augusta" ). One of his lecturers was Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich , who was then university rector. He also got to know the classical philologist Karl Otfried Müller , the historian Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren and the philologist Georg Ludolf Dissen . He also heard the philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause . During his studies he hired himself as a private teacher. Subsequently, he found a job in Gotha as head of an alumnate in the old monastery rooms of his grammar school. Here he supervised sixteen students from 1827 to 1832 and even gave them Hebrew lessons . During this time in Gotha he wrote several articles for philosophical journals. He also made a name for himself with treatises on Marcus Iunianus Iustinus and Aulus Persius Flaccus . The Parisian booksellers, typographers and writers Firmin and Pierre Didot had von Sinner ask him to work with Fix on the thesaurus for the printer Henricus Stephanus . After von Sinner and Fix left the editorial team after completing the first volume and the brothers Wilhelm and Ludwig Dindorf took over the management of the project, Didot Dübner was able to win over the participation in the "Biblioteca Graeca". Dübner took part in other academic work in France (1845–47 articles in the Revue de Philologie ) and also in school life: his school texts were widespread in France. His criticism of the teachers, textbooks and teaching methods of the Greek language caused a sensation and multiple opposition. In several critical writings and brochures, Dübner pilloried the mistakes and wrong methods, but initially received no approval despite his persistence. His most important opponent was the respected philologist and translator Jean-Louis Burnouf (1775–1844). Only later did his improvements and suggestions find their way into teaching methods and textbooks. From Napoleon III. Dübner was commissioned with a Caesar edition and received the cross of the Legion of Honor .

In 1835 Dübner married the daughter of the watchmaker Donat Riquois from Vitry-le-François , a " Grisette " in Paris . In 1845 the evangelical Dübner joined the Catholic faith in Versailles. Although he called himself a “citizen of the French state”, he was not politically active. He received occasional visits from, among others, Carel Gabriel Cobet , a Dutch colleague. Dübner's tomb bears a marble tablet in Greek style with his portrait in the form of a medallion. A Latin inscription by Léon Renier , a French historian who was particularly dedicated to the translation of Latin inscriptions, commemorates the Caesar edition. Alexis Chassang (1827–1888), French Graecist and lexicographer , wrote a Greek two-line line for the tombstone, together with a Latin one they adorn the stone on both sides of the portrait. The actual epitaph is French. The monument was inaugurated on October 13, 1868, the first anniversary of his death, with the literary critic and writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve delivering the funeral oration.

Works

Dübner's most important work with the Didot brothers concerned the entire field of Greek literature. He devoted himself to the notes ( Scholien ) of Aristophanes (1842), Theocritus (1849), Christ patiens (1846) and Anthologia Palatina (1869) and treated the rhetorician Himerios (1849), the historian Arrian (1846) and the philosopher Aristotle ( 1848). He also worked Theophrastus , Marcus Aurelius 's Meditations, the commentary of Simplicius to Encheiridion of Epictetus (1840), Plutarch Moralia with fragments (1839) and Porphyry with Proklos and Priscian (1855) (annexed to Plotinausgabe of Friedrich Creuzer ) - Latin all with Translation and almost all of them with tables of contents.

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SURNAME Duebner, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duebner, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Hörselgau
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1867
Place of death Montreuil