Julius Brzoska
Julius Brzoska (born February 27, 1859 in Ujest ; † April 17, 1930 in Ehingen an der Donau ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.
Life
Julius Brzoska, who came from a Catholic family in Silesia, lost both parents at an early age. He attended high school in Groß Strehlitz (1869–1873) and St. Matthias High School in Breslau (1873–1876). After graduation, he studied Classical Philology, Archeology and Philosophy at the University of Wroclaw . In addition to professors Martin Hertz and Otto Rossbach , he was particularly influenced by August Reifferscheid , who inspired him to do his doctoral thesis (1883).
After graduating as a teacher in 1883, Brzoska went to school. He left his Silesian homeland and settled in Alsace. He completed his probationary year at the Lyceum in Strasbourg, where he was appointed academic assistant teacher in 1884 and full teacher in 1885. Later he went as a senior teacher at the grammar school in Saarburg . From 1902 he directed the high school in Schlettstadt in Alsace. On September 5, 1918, he was appointed a privy councilor . Two days later he suffered a stroke from which he was slow to recover.
After the end of the First World War , Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by France and the Germans expelled. Brzoska was dismissed as the high school director. Because of his health, he did not have to leave in December (like most Germans), but only in February 1919. Together with his wife, he moved via Kehl and Offenburg to Erlenbad near Sasbach , where his temporary apartment was. Meanwhile, his children stayed in Schlettstadt to take care of the household. Eventually the whole family moved to Ehingen an der Donau . Brzoska died on April 17, 1930 at the age of 71.
Although Brzoska no longer taught in Ehingen, he became very well known there. Two of his sons settled down as architects in Ehingen. Since the 1930s Julius Brzoska's face can be seen on a relief above the town hall portal: the sculptor Eduard Hermanutz chose the "Homeric head" of the retired high school director, well-known in Ehingen, as a representative of the educational system alongside representatives of other branches of trade and classes.
Scientific work
Brzoska has been involved in Greek and Roman literature since his studies. His most extensive work was his dissertation (1883) on the Attic speakers , which at 104 pages was extraordinarily long for the time. Brzoska carefully examined the process of canonizing the ten Attic speakers. Based on Reifferscheid, he took the view against Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier that the canon was not first laid out by Kaikilios in the 1st century AD , but as early as the 2nd century BC. From the Pergamene scholar school. This result was later challenged by Paul Hartmann in his dissertation (Göttingen 1891). Since then, research has largely reverted to Meier's view.
In addition to his many years of work in school, Brzoska continued to work scientifically. As a specialist in Greek rhetoric , he wrote 78 articles for the first volumes of the real encyclopedia of classical antiquity (RE) on Greek and Roman rhetors of Hellenism and the imperial era . He had known the editor Georg Wissowa since his school days in Breslau; both had written their doctoral theses at Reifferscheid.
Fonts (selection)
- De canone decem oratorum Atticorum quaestiones. Dissertation Breslau 1883 (p. 102 curriculum vitae)
literature
- Obituary in the weekly newspaper Der Elsässer / L'Alsacien on April 23, 1930
- Jonathan Groß, Wolf Brzoska: Dr. phil. Julius Brzoska 1859-1930 . In: Remarkable Ehinger. Moved away, moved in, stayed . Ehingen 2014, pp. 105–107 ( doi : 10.5281 / zenodo.3960185 )
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SURNAME | Brzoska, Julius |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and grammar school director |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1859 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ujest |
DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1930 |
Place of death | Ehingen on the Danube |