Julius Schubring (classical philologist)

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Johannes Julius Schubring (born March 28, 1839 in Dessau , † June 5, 1914 in Lübeck ) was a German classical philologist and educator.

Life

origin

Julius was the son of Julius Schubring . This was pastor at the Johanniskirche and from 1870 also its consistorial councilor .

His father was a friend of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and wrote the libretti for his oratoriosPaulus ” and “ Elias ”.

career

After passing the high school diploma in Dessau, he attended the Prima at the Katharineum in Lübeck for another year .

After studying classical philology along with the related subjects of antiquity at the universities of Erlangen , Bonn and Göttingen . In Göttingen he became a member of the Göttingen Wingolf . In 1861/62 he passed the Dessau State Theological Examination . In the spring of 1862 his treatise De Cypselo Corinthionen Tyranno appeared and he went on a journey.

In Messina he accepted a position as an educator in the house of the former consul Julius Ewald Jäger and stayed for three years.

Schubring's map of Agrigento

Due to the mediation by Ernst Curtius , Schubring received a scholarship for a trip to Italy and Sicily in 1865 and 1866. With the authorization of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin , he spent 18 months in Sicily and the capitals of mainland Italy . He did not carry out any excavations, but described in detail the remains of the ancient sites visible on the surface and their location in the overall context, made plan sketches and tried to interpret the objects on the basis of ancient traditions. He wrote such historical topographies about Agrigento , Gela , Akrai , Megara , Kamarina and Mozia .

After a short stay in his parents' house, he spent his educational trial year at the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin.

By decree of the Lübeck Senate , Schubring was hired on March 16, 1868 as the 7th and on June 15, 1870 as the 6th senior teacher at the Katharineum. The Accademia Gioenia in Catania made him an honorary member .

At Easter 1872, Schubring was appointed senior teacher at the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin. From the beginning he led the ordinariate of a senior second without interruption and also taught at the two primes. From Easter 1877, director Otto Kübler also gave him the top management of singing lessons and the assignment of the same in the first department.

The Berliner Tageblatt reported in 1877 that Schubring was up for election for the position of director at the newly founded Königstädtische Gymnasium . His competitor Ludwig Bellermann , senior teacher at the Gray Monastery grammar school , was chosen instead of him.

As the successor to Friedrich Breier , Schubring became director of the Lübeck Katharineum in the summer of 1880. With Adolf Holm taught here already another Sicily connoisseur. On Monday, October 11th, it was introduced by the President of the Debt Committee, Arthur Gustav Kulenkamp . The new classrooms in the completed new building were then handed over to him. In place of the late Breier, the Senate elected him to be a member of the high school college.

Because of the steadily growing number of students, Breier had already pushed through an expansion of the Katharineum. However, the new classrooms soon proved to be too small. In order to do justice to the number of students, many classes had to be divided and one or two new senior teachers had to be hired every year. Schubring promoted the improvement of teachers' salaries. By the time he retired, the faculty had more than doubled. After the new northern wing , the middle and southern parts were connected to the school in 1892. The Katharineum received its auditorium with the southern part .

At the school festival in 1882, the primary pentathlon, which has been carried out to this day, was held for the first time based on the model of the Greek pentathlon . Class trips were now also undertaken under the guidance of teachers other than those in the natural sciences . Schubring was the first school principal in Germany to introduce 45-minute lessons in 1883. According to Berliner Blätter, he was also shortlisted for the completed post of grammar school director in Berlin. However, he announced that he would refuse to accept an election made by him. Of the ancient writers, he was particularly fond of the Greeks . His interpretations of Homer and Sophocles were exemplary.

He also proved himself as a conductor . In the so-called opera evenings , which took place alternately in the participants' apartments, he led the exercises on the piano . One in the 1880s, forming dilettantes - Orchestra -Verein appointed him as a conductor at its head.

At his request, the Senate put Mr Schubring into retirement on April 1, 1904 . His successor was Christian Reuter, the previous director of the Royal High School in Demmin . On the evening of March 24, 1904, the students held a torchlight procession in honor of their outgoing director .

To celebrate his 50th anniversary of his doctorate , Schubring was presented with a new copy of his doctoral certificate on March 1, 1912 by representatives of the University of Göttingen .

After a long illness, Schubring died in 1914.

family

Schubring was married to Anna, née Nagel. Their marriage resulted in three daughters and one son.

At the time of his death, Sophie was married to the higher regional judge Wilhelm Mann, Helene to the government councilor Carl Plessing and Frida Robert Lienau. His son, Walther Schubring , was a well-known Indologist and worked at the Prussian State Library in Berlin. At the time of his death, he already had thirteen grandchildren.

Trivia

After the death of Senator Mann on October 13, 1891, Consul Fehling and the wine merchant Tesdorf were appointed guardians of the five children he left behind.

Thomas Mann was 16 years old at the time. In his novel Die Buddenbrooks , for which he would later receive the Nobel Prize , we meet Julius Schubring as director Prof. Wulicke .

Fonts

  • Sepolcri della Sicilia , in: Bulletino dell'Istituto 1864, pp. 257-260.
  • Migration of the Megarian Gulf in Sicily , in: Journal for General Geography NF 17, 1864, pp. 434–464.
  • Achradina: a contribution to the urban history of Syracuse , in: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie NF 20, 1865, pp. 15–63.
  • About the newly excavated Roman building in the campagna Bufardeci in Syracuse , in: Monthly reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1865, pp. 362–372.
  • The Irrigation of Syracuse , in: Philologus 22, 1865, pp. 577-638.
  • The topography of the city of Selinus , in: Nachrichten von der Königl. Society of Sciences and the Georg-Augusts-Universität zu Göttingen from 1865, pp. 401–441.
  • The newly excavated temple in Syracuse , in: Philologus 23, 1866, pp. 361–367.
  • Motye-Lilybaeum , in: Philologus 24, 1866, pp. 49-82.
  • Report on his travels in Sicily , in: Monthly reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1866, pp. 754–757.
  • Akrä-Palazzolo, a topographical-archaeological Sketch , in: Yearbooks for Classical Philology, Supplementary Volume 4, 8, 1867, pp. 659–672.
  • About Akragas , in: Negotiations of the XXVII. Philologists' Congregation 1869, pp. 119-132.
  • Historical topography of Akragas in Sicily during the classical period , Leipzig 1870
  • Historical topography of Panormus in: Easter program of the Catharineum, Lübeck 1870
  • Historical-geographical studies of ancient Sicilies. Gela. Phintias. The southern Sikeler , in: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie NF 28, 1873, pp. 65–140.
  • Kamarina , in: Philologus 32, 1873, pp. 490-530.
  • Sicilian studies. The landscape of the Menas and Erykes together with Leontinoi , in: Journal of the Society for Geography 9, 1874, pp. 365–387.
  • German singing and sound. 65 patriotic and folk songs, for mixed choir for use in higher educational institutions and in singing associations , Berlin 1878
  • From Ernst Curtius's childhood and school days. On September 2 , Als Ms. gedr., Lübeck 1884
  • Topografia storica di Agrigento , Turin 1887
  • The merits of the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Education and Teaching: Festschrift to celebrate its 100th anniversary presented in the name of the Katharineum , Lübeck 1889
  • Comments on the new building and the school desks , in: Easter program of the Catharineum, Lübeck 1892, pp. 78–82.
  • German singing and sound. 68 patriotic and folk songs for mixed choir set by Dr. Jul. Schubring, Prof. zu Lübeck , 5th edition, Berlin 1899

literature

  • Professor Dr. Thrust ring †. In: Lübeckische Advertisements , Volume 164, Abend-Blatt, No. 278, edition of June 5, 1914.
  • Obituary for Director Schubring. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Vol. 56, number 24, edition of June 14, 1914, pp. 400–402.

Web links

Commons : Julius Schubring  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Julius Schubring  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Bruhn:  Schubring, Julius Hermann Wolfgang Walther. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 618 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. a b c d Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 22, number 66, edition of August 18, 1880, p. 380.
  3. ^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Year 2007. p. 5.
  4. The grammar school was supposed to be closed in 1924 and from 1934 it housed the People's Court .
  5. Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 19, number 46, edition of April 1, 1877, p. 148.
  6. Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 22, number 80, edition of October 6, 1880, p. 466.
  7. Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 22nd year, number 85, edition of November 28th, 1880, p. 552.
  8. Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 25, number 64, edition of August 12, 1883, p. 380.
  9. Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 45, number 40, edition of October 4, 1903, p. 515.
  10. Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 45, number 52, edition of November 27, 1903, p. 726.
  11. Peter De Mendelssohn: The magician: The life of the German writer Thomas Mann. 1975, p. 109
predecessor Office successor
Friedrich Breier Director of Katharineum Lübeck
1880 - 1904
Christian Reuter