Joseph Heeg

Joseph Heeg (born July 10, 1881 in Hösbach ; † August 22, 1916 on the Somme ) was a German classical philologist and librarian .

Life

Joseph Heeg attended high school in Aschaffenburg and from 1900 studied Classical Philology and Ancient History at the University of Würzburg . He spent the winter semester 1902/1903 and the summer semester 1903 at the University of Munich . After the state examination in autumn 1904 he worked as an intern at the Royal Court and State Library in Munich .

On April 28, 1906, Heeg completed the Rigorosum at the University of Munich. His doctoral thesis was dedicated to his Würzburg teachers Franz Boll , Martin von Schanz and Ulrich Wilcken . He continued to work at the State Library, where he was appointed assistant on September 1, 1908 and custodian on January 1, 1909.

In addition to his work in the State Library, Heeg was scientifically active. He wrote essays on ancient astronomy , astrology and the history of medicine . As a recognized specialist, he was called in by Hermann Diels as an employee of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum . Together with Diels and Johannes Mewaldt , Heeg edited the volume Galeni In Hippocratis Prorrheticum I, De comate secundum Hippocratem, In Hippocratis Prognosticum (Leipzig 1915).

After the outbreak of the First World War , Heeg was called up for military service on March 30, 1915. He served first with the 16th Infantry Regiment in Passau, then from the beginning of July with the 2nd Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment in Munich. After an officer trainee course in August and September, he returned to his Munich regiment. On March 3, 1916, he was transferred to the front. He was stationed in Arras until the beginning of August 1916 and was then transferred to the Somme, where he was killed on patrol on August 22, 1916.

Web links

• Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of Josef Heeg in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center