Julius Tambornino

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Julius Tambornino (full name Julius Caesar Cornelius Tambornino , born January 2, 1885 in Düren , † May 15, 1964 in Monschau ) was a German classical philologist , religious scholar and high school teacher.

Life

Julius Tambornino came from a family of craftsmen. His grandfather Franz Joseph Tambornino had emigrated from Sardinia in the early 19th century and settled in Kempen as a pewter caster ; His father Johann Tambornino lived as a pewter trader in Düren, where Julius Tambornino attended grammar school and took his school leaving examination on March 5, 1904. He then studied Classical Philology at the University of Münster in Westphalia . He completed his studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. phil. (May 17, 1909) and the teaching examination in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and German (June 30, 1909).

Immediately after graduation, Tambornino entered the Prussian school service. He spent the seminar year 1909/10 at the grammar school Boppard , the probation year 1910/11 at the St. Michael grammar school in Münstereifel . He then taught first as an assistant teacher at the Thomaeum grammar school in Kempen, where he also gave gymnastics and writing lessons. During the First World War he was called up for military service on March 10, 1915. After his return from the war, he was given a permanent position as a senior teacher at the Royal High School in Cologne-Mülheim on April 1, 1917 , where he taught Latin, Greek and history until the Second World War . After a heavy air raid on Cologne on October 28, 1944, in which the school building was destroyed, Tambornino moved to Monschau in the Eifel and taught there at St. Michael-Gymnasium until he retired (1950).

Julius Tambornino was married to Magdalena Schütz (1880-1959) from April 18, 1914. The couple had two children.

In addition to his work at the school, Tambornino was scientifically active, especially in the area of ​​ancient Greek religion. His dissertation on the belief in demons , which was initiated and supervised by Wilhelm Kroll , appeared in the series Religious-historical experiments and preparatory work . In the 1910s and 1920s, Tambornino wrote several articles for Pauly's real encyclopedia of classical antiquity , including about the Heraclids (together with Jakob Pley ) and the goddess Hygieia . He also published school text editions of Greek and Latin classics.

Fonts (selection)

  • De antiquorum daemonismo . Gießen 1909 (= attempts at religious history and preliminary work 7.3; also dissertation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
  • Herodotos in selection. Text and explanations . Paderborn 1929. 2nd edition 1953
  • Homer's Odyssey in selection. Part 1: Book I – XII. Text and explanations . Paderborn 1931. 2nd edition 1953
  • Horatius in selection. Text and explanations . Paderborn 1935. 2nd edition 1953
  • Plautus: Trinummus. Text and explanations . Paderborn 1954–1955
  • Tacitus: Histories in selection . Paderborn 1958-1960

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date and place of death according to a private obituary notice, death note collections of the West German Society for Family Studies (accessed on January 31, 2017).
  2. ^ City of Kempen, street names: Tamborninostraße (accessed on January 31, 2017).
  3. ↑ Date and place of death according to a private obituary notice, death note collections of the West German Society for Family Studies (accessed on January 31, 2017) and ibid (accessed on May 5, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Tambornino, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tambornino, Julius Caesar Cornelius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, religious scholar and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1964
Place of death Monschau