Joseph-Hans Kühn

Joseph-Hans Kühn (born May 27, 1911 in Landstuhl ; † February 11, 1994 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

After attending the Progymnasium in Frankenthal (Palatinate) and the Humanistic Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Kühn studied Classical Philology, German Philology , History and Archeology at the universities of Heidelberg and Würzburg from 1931 . He passed the teaching examination in Latin, Greek, German and history in 1935 and 1936. He then completed his legal clerkship at the grammar school in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, worked as an assessor in Schondorf am Ammersee and in Landau . In 1937 he received a teaching position at the University of Würzburg, where he became Josef Martin's assistant in 1939 . In 1940 Kühn received his doctorate in 1940 with a dissertation on ideas about the history of development in ancient Greece. phil. PhD . In the same year Kühn, who had also taught at the old grammar school in Würzburg, was drafted into military service.

After the end of the Second World War , Kühn returned to the University of Würzburg in 1945 as a study assessor and research assistant at the Department of Classical Philology (course in Latin and Greek) under Josef Martin and Friedrich Pfister and worked on his habilitation thesis , with which he completed his habilitation in 1950. The book appeared in 1956 under the title System- und Methodeprobleme im Corpus Hippocraticum . In 1962 Kühn was appointed to a newly created extraordinary professorship at the University of Hamburg . In the same year he became editor of the Index Hippocraticus at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae . Kühn devoted himself mainly to this activity for eight years until he stepped down from her in 1970 and was appointed full professor. In 1975 he took early retirement and moved to Waldkirch im Breisgau, later to Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, where he died at the age of 82.

In addition to the history of Greek philosophy and medicine, Kühn's research focused on the poetry of Hesiod , Theocrites and Properz . His courses focused on the Greek prose writers from Plato to Epictetus , with the main focus on Demosthenes , Xenophon and Marc Aurel . In retirement, Kühn devoted himself primarily to work on his last monographs on Theokrit (1978) and the Hippocratic Aphorisms (1981) and the very complex correction of the flags of the Index Hippocraticus .

literature

• Klaus Alpers , Eva Horváth, Hans Kurig: Philologica Hamburgensia II. Classical philologists in Hamburg from the 17th to the 20th century , Herzberg 1990. Second edition, unpublished manuscript 1996, pp. 17-18.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joseph-Hans Kühn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Joseph-Hans Kühn  in the German Digital Library
• Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of Joseph-Hans Kühn in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer half year 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 13 ( Kühn, Josef-Hans ) and 17 ..