Joseph Kopp

This article deals with the philologist and philosopher Joseph Kopp. For the administrative officer see Joseph von Kopp ; on the historian and poet, see Joseph Eutych Kopp .

Joseph Kopp, lithographed portrait

Joseph Kopp (born November 16, 1788 in Sommerau , † July 7, 1842 in Erlangen ) was a German classical philologist and philosopher .

Life

As the son of poor farmers, he showed enough talent as a child to attend Latin school in Straubing in 1799 . An uncle who was the prior of the Benedictines in Kötzting helped him to get by by arranging boarding days. Thanks to good progress, Kopp was able to move to the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1802 , where he also earned his living by taking private lessons. After graduating from high school, he began general studies at the Lyceum in 1806 and became interested in philology as a student of Friedrich Jacob.

After completing his teaching examinations very well in autumn 1810 and following his teacher's recommendation, Kopp received a scholarship that enabled him to attend the University of Heidelberg until 1812. On his return to Munich he got a job as a teacher in a lower class of the Latin school and was promoted to grammar school professor after only three years. After Breyer's death in 1819, he became professor of history and second chairman of the philological seminary at the Lyceum. Because he was too frank about the Church in his lectures, he was replaced as Professor of History by Andreas Buchner in 1824 , but remained Professor of Philology. After the University of Landshut was relocated to Munich and the Lyceum was closed, it was not used from 1826 until he was appointed second professor of classical philology and professor at the University of Erlangen , which he accepted in 1827. Here he became a close friend of Friedrich Rückert , who encouraged him to also devote himself to oriental languages, which he had already started studying in Munich, and to study comparative languages. Only after a literary break was Kopp able to be persuaded by the President of the Oberconsistorium Freiherr von Roth to publish numerous reviews of editions of Aristotelian books and works of oriental literature as well as language comparisons, including in the Munich scholarly advertisements . In the summer of 1842 he died unexpectedly at the age of 54.

Fonts

• The new humanism in the Palatinate . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1928.
• Geology of the Adula . A. Francke, Bern 1923 (with Hans Jenny and Gustav Frischknecht).

"Kopp didn't feel like writing, and in his thirst for knowledge he probably didn't take the time to do it."

- Karl Ritter von Halm (ADB)

literature

• Karl Felix Halm :  Kopp, Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 683-685.
• In memory of Dr. Joseph Kopp . Erlangen 1842, words spoken at the grave by Dr. Ludwig Döderlein on July 10, 1842, with a lithographed portrait of Joseph Kopps.
• Friedrich Reuter: Friedrich Rückert and Joseph Kopp: 1837 - 1842; with 18 letters from the poet . Meyer, Altona 1895 urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-104078 }.
• Otto Stählin : Obtaining the seminar for classical philology at the university: Speech given at the celebration of its 150th anniversary on December 17, 1927 . Verlag von Palm & Enke, 1928, p. 43.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joseph Kopp in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970-1976 .; Vol. 3, p. 227.
2. ↑ Stählin, 1928, p. 43 .; Appointed on October 28, 1827.
3. ↑ Friedrich Rückert: In memory of my friend Joseph Kopp . July 14, 1842 (poems); To Emilie Kopp in the children's register , December 21, 1856, copied by Marie Dubbers geb. Kopp.