Johann Theodor Vömel

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Johann Theodor Vömel (born October 6, 1791 in Hanau ; † April 8, 1868 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German classical philologist, Lutheran theologian and grammar school director.

Life

Theodor Vömel was the son of Johann Georg Vömel , teacher at the old town school and cantor at the Hospital Church in Hanau. He graduated from the High School and moved to Heidelberg University at Easter 1809 to study philology and theology. Recommended by his teacher Carl Daub , he first became a teacher at Friedrich Heinrich Christian Schwarz's boys' education institution , and in the summer of 1814 at the high school in Wertheim . In 1816 he followed a call from Elector Wilhelm I as a professor at the high school in Hanau.

On January 2, 1819, he became a professor at the municipal high school of the Free City of Frankfurt . In 1821 he was promoted to vice-principal of the headmaster Friedrich Christian Matthiä and after his death in 1822 became the new director of the grammar school. He remained in this office for over 30 years until the city's senate retired at his own request in 1853. His successor was Johannes Classen .

Vömel was considered a conscientious, albeit pedantic and somewhat petty schoolmaster, whose office as director was always controversial. His long term in office was seen as a period of stagnation in the history of the Frankfurt grammar school. His good scientific reputation was based on numerous publications. These include several school books, such as an exercise book for translating from German into Greek (1817) and a corresponding German-Greek dictionary (1819). Above all, however, he occupied himself with Demosthenes , whose speeches against Philip he edited in several volumes. He wrote numerous articles on grammatical, text-critical and historical topics for the school programs of the grammar school.

In addition to his school activities, Vömel was also an ordained Lutheran pastor. Since 1836 he preached in the supply house of the Wiesenhüttenstift . In 1827 he published a revision of Luther's Great Catechism under the title Christian Textbook and Editing Book, which appeared in several editions. He also wrote several theological treatises for the school programs. His historical-critical translation of the New Testament was available as a manuscript when he died.

Vömel was married twice. In 1815 he married Amalie Schwarz (1794–1834), a daughter of Friedrich Heinrich Christian Schwarz and Johanna Magdalena Margretha Jung (daughter of Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling ). The couple had 10 children, 7 of whom survived their father.

After Amalie's death, he married her younger sister Flora Schwarz (1805-1854) in 1835 , with whom he had two daughters.

His grave in Frankfurt's main cemetery was cleared in June 2020 because the grave cross was no longer stable.

Honors

In 1833 the University of Marburg appointed Vömel as a master's degree in liberal arts and an honorary doctorate in philosophy, and in 1848 the University of Erlangen as an honorary doctorate in theology. In 1846, a scholarship from the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV enabled him to do research at the French National Library . In 1848 he was awarded the gold medal for art and science for his Demosthenes editions that resulted from this . In the same year the Archaeological Institute in Rome accepted him as a corresponding member.

Works (selection)

  • Demostenis Philippicae orationes V , Frankfurt am Main 1829
  • Philippica II , Frankfurt am Main 1832
  • Demosthenis Opera rec. graece et latine, cum fragmentis nunc primum editis , 2 volumes, Paris, Didot, 1843–45
  • Demostenis Contiones quae circumferuntur, graece et lat. , Halle 1857
  • Demosthenis Orationes contra Aeschinem de corona et de falsa legatione cum argumentis graece et latine , Leipzig 1862
  • Demosthenis Oratio aversus Leptinem cum argumentis graece et latine , Leipzig 1866

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data sheet Amalie Schwarz
  2. ↑ Data sheet Flora Schwarz
  3. ↑ Even a tombstone is ephemeral , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 133 of June 10, 2020, p. 32 online
personal data
SURNAME Vömel, Johann Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, Lutheran theologian and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1868
Place of death Frankfurt am Main