Johannes Dräseke

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Johannes Dräseke (born December 30, 1844 in Havelberg ; † September 6, 1916 in Wandsbek ) was a German Protestant theologian , classical philologist , church historian and grammar school teacher who taught at the Matthias Claudius grammar school in Wandsbek from 1872 to 1912 . He came to prominence above all with church-historical and historical-philological studies of the Greek theologians of late antiquity and the Byzantine period .

life and work

Johannes Dräseke was the son of a teacher and grandson of the theologian Bernhard Dräseke (1774–1849); the composer and music teacher Felix Draeseke (1835–1913) was his cousin. Johannes Dräseke attended the community school in Havelberg, where his father taught, and from Michaelis 1857 to Easter 1865 the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin . After graduation, he studied Protestant theology and classical philology at Berlin University . In 1869 he passed the first theological exam ( pro facultate concionandi ) and has since concentrated on the subjects of philology and history. On April 1, 1870, he moved to Magdeburg and entered the local candidate convict, where he was trained as a religion teacher. At that time the Konvikt was connected to the pedagogy of the monastery of Our Dear Women , where Dräseke gave his first lessons. His colleagues included Johannes Gottschick , who later became the inspector of education and professor of theology in Gießen and Tübingen, with whom Dräseke had a lifelong friendship.

During the two years at the Candidate Convict, Dräseke continued his philological and historical studies at the University of Halle . On May 16, 1872, he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post and received the license to teach ( facultas docendi ) in the subject religion for all classes, in Latin and Greek to upper secondary and in history to upper secondary. His trial lesson at the pedagogy (June 7, 1872) turned out so well that he was exempted from the mandatory probationary year in school service. On August 7, 1872 he was at the university resounds with a dissertation on the third philip european speech of Demosthenes Dr. phil. PhD ; he published the work four years later and dedicated it to his doctoral supervisor Friedrich Blass .

After a short stay in his hometown of Havelberg, Dräseke was given a permanent position as a senior teacher at the newly founded Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium in Wandsbek near Hamburg on October 1, 1872 . Dräseke taught at this school for forty years. On March 16, 1893 he received the title of professor and on April 18, 1893 the rank of Councilor IV class. When he retired on October 1, 1912, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class .

In addition to teaching, Dräseke dealt with historical and philological research questions throughout his life. Through intensive study of the church fathers he became a recognized expert in the field of church history. His main research interests were the authenticity and chronology of the Greek Church Fathers from ancient times to modern times. Dräseke published numerous individual studies as supplements to the school program and in scientific journals, especially in the yearbooks for Protestant theology , in the journal for church history , the journal for church science and church life , the journal for scientific theology and the Byzantine journal . He later edited many of his essays as a book, especially those on the writings and teachings of the Syrian bishop Apollinaris (or Apolloninarios) of Laodicea (1892). The theological faculty of the University of Jena awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1895 for his services to church history .

Fonts (selection)

  • Quaestio criticae de Demosthenis oratione Philippica tertia . Turin 1876 (= dissertation, University of Halle 1872)
  • Quaestionum Nazianzenarum specimen . Wandsbek 1876 (school program)
  • The letter to Diognetus. In addition to contributions to the history of the life and writings of Gregorios of Neocaesarea . Leipzig 1881
  • Collected patristic inquiries . Altona / Leipzig 1889
  • Johann Rist as Imperial Court and Count Palatine . Wandsbek 1890 (school program)
  • Apollinarios of Laodicea. His life and his writings. In addition to an appendix: Apollinarii Laodiceni quae supersunt dogmatica . Leipzig 1892 (= texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature 7.3–4)
  • Three chapters from the peace treatise of Patriarch Johannes Bekkos from the year 1275 . Wandsbek 1896 (school program)
  • On the Johannine question . Wandsbek 1900 (school program)
  • John Scotus Erigena and its informants divisione in his work De natura libri V . Leipzig 1902. Reprinted Aalen 1972, ISBN 978-3-511-04246-2
  • Three chapters from the peace treatise of Patriarch Johannes Bekkos from the year 1275. Introduced and translated . Wandsbek 1907 (school program)
  • Analecta Byzantina. 1. The linguistic difficulties of church communication between Orient and Occident. According to Johannes Bekkos. 2. Johannes Bekkos against Nikolaos of Methone . Wandsbek 1909 (school program)
  • The writing of Bishop Phoebadius of Agennum “Against the Arians” . Wandsbek 1910 (school program)
  • Johannes Bekkos' refutation of the syllogisms of Photios . Wandsbek 1912 (school program)

literature

  • Byzantine magazine . Volume 23 (1919), p. 523 (short necrology)
  • Wilhelm Lehmann : Autobiographical and mixed writings . Stuttgart 1999 (= Collected Works 8), ISBN 3-608-95047-8 , p. 54; 84

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personal data
SURNAME Dräseke, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, classical philologist, church historian and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Havelberg
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1916
Place of death Wandsbek