Johannes Geffcken (philologist)

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Karl Heinrich Johannes Geffcken (born May 2, 1861 in Berlin ; † June 11, 1935 in Rostock ) was a German classical philologist who worked from 1907 to 1933 as a professor at the University of Rostock .

Life

Johannes Geffcken was the son of the lawyer, diplomat and publicist Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken (1830-1896). The lawyer Otto Wilhelm Heinrich Geffcken was one of his two sisters and three brothers . In keeping with the tradition of his family of Hamburg senators, Johannes Geffcken began studying law in Strasbourg in 1881 . However, he soon switched to classical philology, which was represented in Strasbourg by Heinrich Nissen , among others . In 1882 he switched to Hermann Sauppe and Karl Dilthey at the University of Göttingen . After a year in Bonn (1884/1885) with Hermann Usener and Franz Bücheler , Geffcken finished his studies in Göttingen. At the suggestion of his local teacher Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , he wrote his dissertation De Stephano Byzantio , with which he received his doctorate in 1886. In 1887 he passed the state examination and from Michaelis 1889 worked at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg. Geffcken came to his main field of work through the edition order of the Oracula Sibyllina for the Church Fathers Commission of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , which he had received in 1897 and completed in 1901, the research of Christian literature of antiquity and its relationship to pagan literature.

In the summer semester of 1907, Geffcken, who had not completed his habilitation , accepted an offer at the University of Rostock , where he worked until the end of his life. In 1916/1917 and 1924 he was rector of the university. The most important works of his Rostock time include the new edition of Friedrich Lübker's Reallexikon des Klassik Antiquity (together with Erich Ziebarth , 1914), various editions and monographs on the church fathers, and his unfinished history of Greek literature (1926–1934). In 1919 he received an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Rostock.

Fonts (selection)

  • De Stephano Byzantio . Göttingen 1886 (dissertation)
  • Timaeus' Geography of the West . Berlin 1892
  • Composition and time of origin of the Oracula Sibyllina . Leipzig 1902. Reprint Leipzig 1967
  • The Oracula Sibyllina, edited on behalf of the Church Fathers Commission . Leipzig 1902. Reprint Leipzig 1967
  • From the age of Christianity. Studies and characteristics . Leipzig 1904
    • New edition under the title: Christianity in the struggle and balance with the Greco-Roman world. Studies and characteristics from the time he was born . 3rd, completely revised edition, Leipzig / Berlin 1920
  • Two Greek apologists . Leipzig7Berlin 1907. Reprint Hildesheim / New York 1970
  • Christian apocrypha . Tübingen 1908 ( Religious history folk books 15)
  • Emperor Julianus . Leipzig 1914
  • with Erich Ziebarth: Friedrich Lübkers Reallexikon des Classic Antiquity 8th, completely revised edition, Leipzig / Berlin 1914
  • From silent work: Christmas gift from Rostock university teachers to their students in the Rostock field in 1916
  • Three German university teachers in a big time . Rostock 1916 (Rector's speech)
  • Greek epigrams . Heidelberg 1916. Reprint Hildesheim 1976
  • Germany's academic youth in 1813, 1870, 1914 . Rostock 1917 (Rector's speech)
  • The Greek tragedy . Leipzig / Berlin 1918. 3rd edition, Leipzig / Berlin 1921
  • Greek people . Leipzig 1919
  • The outcome of Greco-Roman paganism . Heidelberg 1920. 2. thousand with supplements, Heidelberg 1929. Reprints Darmstadt 1963, 1972
    • English translation by Sabine MacCormack: The last days of Greco-Roman paganism . Amsterdam 1978
  • The outcome of antiquity . Berlin 1921 ( School and Life 3)
  • Religious currents in the 1st century AD Gütersloh 1922
  • Greek literary history. Volume 1: From the beginning to sophistication . Heidelberg 1926
  • The letter to Diognetus . Heidelberg 1928
  • Greek literary history. Volume 1: From Democritus to Aristotle . Heidelberg 1934

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SURNAME Geffcken, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geffcken, Karl Heinrich Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1935
Place of death Rostock