Julius Karl Friedrich Dilthey

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Julius Karl Friedrich Dilthey (born March 12, 1797 in Nordhausen am Harz, † February 17, 1857 in Darmstadt ) was a German philologist , private lecturer and high school director.

Life

Dilthey was the son of master saddler Friedrich Dilthey. He received his first training together with Friedrich Moldenhauer at the grammar school in Nordhausen. In 1820 he received a literary prize on Platonicorum librorum de legibus examen. He then went to the University of Göttingen , where he received his scientific training and in 1818 his doctorate in philosophy. Then he got a job at the university library and high school. At the university he read about various Roman writers as a private lecturer. In 1821 he was appointed as a teacher at the Martineum in Braunschweig , where u. a. Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl , Georg Friedrich Schnittspahn and Edmund Külp were colleagues. In 1823 he was appointed professor at the pedagogue (since 1879: Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium ) in Darmstadt. In 1826 he was appointed director there as the successor to the almost seventy-two year old Johann Georg Zimmermann (pedagogue) (1754-1829). In 1825 he became an extraordinary member of the Education Commission of the Starkenburg Province in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Rhine. From 1832 until his death he was a member of the senior university administration. He had a decisive influence on the improvement of the Hessian high schools with a humanistic character.

For decades, Dilthey had a violent controversy with Theodor Schacht (pedagogue) about the role of the humanistic grammar school and the importance and scope of the real-life subjects.

He was married twice. In 1825 he married his first wife Luise Friederike Wiener († 1828). She was the daughter of Adam Wiener, a forester from Darmstadt. His second wife was Caroline Graff from Nidda in 1837, daughter of Johann Adam Graff (* 1784, doctor of medicine and medical advisor).

Christian Ludwig Boßler succeeded him as director of the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium on May 5, 1858 .

Julius Karl Friedrich Dilthey was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: ID 62).

Publications

  • Platonicorum librorum de legibus examen , 1820 ( digital copy )
  • De situ, moribus et populis Germaniae libellus , 1823 ( digitized version )
  • About the relationship between secondary and commercial schools and grammar schools, etc. , Darmstadt 1839 ( digitized version )
  • High school and secondary school in their connection to Worms , 1842 ( digitized )
  • The Ludwigssaule as an architectural work of art , 1845 ( digitized )
  • Etymological parallel dictionary of the Latin language , 1845 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Philipp Walther:  Dilthey, Jul. Friedr. Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 238.
  • Anne-Françoise Ehrhard: The grammar of Johann Christian Heyse. Continuity and change in the relationship between general grammar and school grammar (1814-1914). de Gruyter, Berlin 1998, p. 306.

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personal data
SURNAME Dilthey, Julius Karl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dilthey, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, private lecturer and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1857
Place of death Darmstadt