Johannes Mewaldt

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Johannes Gottlieb Julius Mewaldt (born April 29, 1880 in Posen , † May 1, 1964 in Vienna ) was a German classical philologist and medical historian.

Life

Johannes Mewaldt studied philosophy and classical philology in Berlin from 1899 . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Berlin . After obtaining his doctorate in Classical Philology in 1904 and the first state examination in 1905, he began the preparatory service for teaching at secondary schools. At the same time, he studied medicine for four semesters and completed his habilitation in Classical Philology at Berlin University in 1907 . He became a private lecturer at the Philosophical Faculty. In the school year 1908/09 he taught as a senior teacher at a school in Berlin-Charlottenburg . From 1909 to 1914 Mewaldt was associate professor at the University of Greifswald and from 1914 to 1916 personal professor in Marburg . In 1916 he was appointed full professor in Greifswald, but did not begin teaching until 1919, as he did voluntary military service from 1914 to 1918 during the First World War . In 1923 Mewaldt moved to Königsberg , 1927 to Tübingen and finally in 1931 to the University of Vienna .

Mewaldt joined the NSDAP in 1940 . The responsible special commission relieved him of his chair at the University of Vienna in the summer semester of 1946, and he was retired towards the end of the year. His de-registration took place in September 1947.

The Prussian Academy of Sciences elected him February 7, 1924 as a corresponding member of their philosophical-historical class. In 1932 he became a corresponding member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. In 1927 the University of Marburg awarded him an honorary doctorate in medicine.

Mewaldt's main research areas were the history of medicine and the Roman poet Lucretius . After the founding of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, at the suggestion of the initiator of the Corpus, his teacher Hermann Diels , he became its first editor from 1907 to 1929/30 and in this role he was in charge of the management of the research and publication company. He was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

literature

  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Second volume: 1910 to 1971 . Marburg 1979, p. 568.
  • Herbert Hunger : Johannes Mewaldt † . In: Gnomon , Volume 36 (1964), pp. 524-526.
  • Mewaldt, Johannes . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, p. 240.
  • Lexicon of Greifswald university lecturers 1775 to 2006 . Volume 3: 1907 to 1932 . Bock, Bad Honnef, 2004, pp. 161–162.
  • Franz Römer : "cum ira et studio". Observations on the development of Viennese classical philology after 1945 . In: Margarete Grandner, Gernot Heiss, Oliver Rathkolb (eds.): Future with contaminated sites. The University of Vienna 1945 to 1955 . Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich, Bozen 2005, ISBN 3-7065-4236-6 (cross sections, volume 19), pp. 222–235 (on Mewaldt especially p. 225).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 147.
  2. ^ Job title in the Berlin address book for 1909; Part I, p. 1760, column 3
  3. ^ Berlin address book, 1909 edition; Part II, p. 44, column 4
  4. ^ Berlin address book, 1909 edition; V part, p. 46, column 4 "Kaiser-Friedrich-Schule"
  5. ↑ Johannes Mewaldt grave site , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 9, Group Extension B, Row 6, No. 6.

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personal data
SURNAME Mewaldt, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mewaldt, Johannes Gottlieb Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1964
Place of death Vienna