Karl August Rüdiger

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Karl August Rüdiger (also Ruediger ; born January 2, 1793 in Ichstedt , † February 2, 1869 in Dresden ) was a German classical philologist and teacher .

Life

Karl August Rüdiger grew up in his uncle's house in Naumburg . There he attended the cathedral grammar school from 1802 to 1811 , where he was supported in particular by August Gotthilf Gernhard . After finishing school, he went to the University of Leipzig . There he studied Protestant theology and in the course of his studies, motivated by Christian Daniel Beck and Gottfried Hermann , Classical Philology. In 1815 he passed the candidate exam. He then was Karl David Ilgen collaborator at the country Pforta . On March 1, 1816, he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

Rüdiger went to the municipal high school in Freiberg as vice-principal in 1817 . There was August Gotthilf Gernhard headmaster. When he was appointed to Weimar in 1820 , the Freiberg city council elected Rüdiger as rector of the Freiberg grammar school. Rüdiger turned down several offers and stayed at the grammar school in Freiberg, was involved in the Saxon Antiquities Association and for the reorganization of the grammar schools in the Erzgebirge in 1830 and 1833. In the autumn of 1841 he was overexerting himself . Because of his suffering, he was admitted to the Colditz Sanatorium in 1842 and retired at the end of 1842 . After his release he lived in Dresden, where he worked as a private scholar and gave individual lessons.

In June 1849, Rüdiger became a senior teacher at the grammar school in Zwickau . Here he worked until his transfer to the retired in 1858. In retirement, he was a lively exchange with his childhood friends Karl Friedrich August Nobbe , Philipp Wagner and Ernst Friedrich Poppo . Even in retirement, his nervous disease broke out several times, from which he did not recover from 1867.

Rüdiger was temporarily editor of the journals Archive for Philology and Pedagogy , Critical Library for Schools and Education, and in 1832 and 1833 Der Lichtfreund, a church and school newspaper for the Kingdom of Saxony .

Publications (selection)

  • Philippica great. Weidmann, Leipzig 1818 ( digitized version of the 1829 edition).
  • De Quintiliano paedagogo Prolusio. Gerlach, Freiberg 1820 ( digitized version ).
  • Demosthenis Philippica secunda de Chersoneso et Philippica tertia. Weidmann, Leipzig 1833 ( digitized version ).
  • Lectionum Demosthenicarum specimen. Meinhold, Freiberg 1836 ( digitized version ).
  • Demosthenis Orationes pro Megalopolitis et pro Rhodiorum libertate. Edelmann, Leipzig 1865 ( digitized version ).

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SURNAME Rüdiger, Karl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruediger, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school rector
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Ichstedt
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1869
Place of death Dresden