Johannes Kirchner
Johannes Ernst Kirchner (born September 13 . Jul / 25. September 1859 greg. In Reval ; † 27. June 1940 in Berlin ) was a German classical scholar and epigraphist .
Life
Johannes Kirchner first grew up in Saint Petersburg , where his father Julius Kirchner ran a school, and from 1874 attended Schulpforta . In 1880 he began studying classical philology and history in Halle and Bonn (with Hermann Usener and Franz Bücheler ) and received his doctorate in Halle in 1883 with a thesis on Demosthenes . During his studies he became a member of the Academic-Musical Association Ascania Halle (in the Association of Special Houses ). From 1884 until his retirement in 1924 he was a teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin. At the same time he was in charge of the Greek style exercises at the University of Berlin from 1905 to 1925 .
Services
In addition to his school activities, Kirchner was scientifically active in the field of epigraphy and prosopography of ancient Athens . His name is primarily associated with two major projects, the Prosopographia Attica , a collection of 16,000 short biographies of primarily inscribed Athenians, and the corpus of Attic inscriptions after the year 403/402 BC. BC (2nd edition of Volume II / III of the Inscriptiones Graecae ), most of which has not yet been replaced.
Fonts
- Prosopographia Attica . 2 volumes. Reimer, Berlin 1901-1903. Reprints: de Gruyter, Berlin 1966; Ares, Chicago 1981, ISBN 0-89005-387-1 .
- Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores . 4 parts in 7 fascicles . Reimer, Berlin 1913-1940. Reprints: Ares Publishers, Chicago 1974; de Gruyter, Berlin 1977.
- Imagines inscriptionum Atticarum. A picture atlas of epigraphic monuments of Attica. Mann, Berlin 1935. 2nd edition, reviewed by Günther Klaffenbach . Mann, Berlin 1948.
literature
- Hellmut Rosenfeld: Kirchner, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 662 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen : Johannes Kirchner. In: Annual report on the progress of classical antiquity. Vol. 280. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1942.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Kirchner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Johannes Kirchner's personnel sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of Reval Cathedral (Estonian: Tallinna toomkirik)
- ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 92.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirchner, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirchner, Johannes Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and epigraphist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1940 |
| Place of death | Berlin |