Josef Feix

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Josef Feix (born March 14, 1908 in Herzogswalde , Province of Silesia ; † unknown) was a German high school teacher ( classical philologist ) and translator of Greek and Latin texts.

Feix was the son of the landowner Josef Feix. After graduating from high school Carolinum in Neisse , he studied classical philology and history in Breslau and Vienna and received his doctorate in 1933 in Breslau with Wilhelm Kroll . In 1934 he passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools . Then he taught in Breslau or the vicinity of Breslau. After the Second World War he came to Weidenberg near Bayreuth as a displaced person and was in Rheydt by 1949 at the latest . He was a high school teacher in Rheydt and Mönchengladbach .

Feix is ​​best known for his Herodotus translation , which was widely used ( Tusculum Collection ). He also translated Thucydides (Peloponnesian War), Livy , Plato (two dialogues, including Gorgias ), Seneca ( De brevitate vitae , Reclam) and edited selections for school books (such as Florilegium latinum).

Johann Martin Thesz said of Feix's translation of Herodotus that it adopts a light, leisurely tone that complies with the Herodotus style, but does not consistently reproduce the Herodotus style and intervene massively in the sentence structure, which also leads to comprehension problems. He criticizes a certain stylistic arbitrariness and a lack of coherence .

Publications (selection)

  • Word order and sentence structure in Petron's novel . Dissertation Breslau 1934 (with curriculum vitae).

literature

  • Johann Martin Thesz: Prose styles and translation strategies: On the history and relationship of German Thucydides and Herodotus translations . In: Josefine Kitzbichler, Ulrike CA Stephan (Ed.): Studies on the practice of translating ancient literature . De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-042215-3 , p. 80.
  • Johann Martin Thesz: German Thucydides translations from the 18th to the 20th century . De Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-046862-5 , pp. 201ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the biography of his daughter Gerhilo Bjornson: The poem as an event. Life and work of Hart Cranes . Dissertation Munich 1970, p. 232.
personal data
SURNAME Feix, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher (classical philologist) and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzogswalde , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 20th century