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Grave of Karl Benedikt Hase ( Montmartre Cemetery )
Grave of Karl Benedikt Hase (Montmartre Cemetery)

Karl Benedikt Hase (French: Charles Benoît Hase . * May 11, 1780 in Bad Sulza near Naumburg ; † March 21, 1864 in Paris ) was a Graecist and paleographer of German origin. He was naturalized in France in 1821.

Hase made Byzantine studies at home in France and trained many excellent French epigraphers. Since he always maintained the connection to German science, he was able to play an important role as a mediator between the scientists of both countries.

Career

After attending the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar , which was headed by the philologist and archaeologist Karl August Böttiger (1760-1835), he began studying philosophy and theology at the University of Jena in 1798 with its support . He continued it at the University of Helmstedt , where he learned modern Greek and Turkish in addition to classical philology, as well as Arabic for reading the Koran. In 1801 he actually wanted to leave for the Peloponnese, which was revolting against Turkish rule at that time. But he first went to Paris, where he quickly found his way into scientific and social circles. The contacts brought him above all his friendship with Alexander von Humboldt , who introduced him to French scholars such as Jean-François Champollion and the orientalist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy . Thanks to this protection, he got a job in 1805 at the Département des manuscrits of the Bibliothèque impériale , where in 1832 he became chief curator and administrator of Greek manuscripts. In his department he received young European scholars and especially the Germans. In particular, he made Theodor Mommsen famous in France very early on. At the same time, he and his colleague Désiré Raoul-Rochette , curator at the Cabinet des Médailles , tried to establish an international network for scientific exchange. In 1812 he became co-educator of the two sons of Queen Hortense Eugenie Beauharnais ( Napoleon Ludwig and Ludwig Napoleon ).

In 1819 he succeeded Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison as the chair of Modern Greek and, since 1838, also for Greek palaeography at the École des langues orientales vivantes . In 1838 he became administrateur and in 1848 until his death the president of this school. From 1824 he was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and in this capacity, together with Raoul-Rochette, member and rapporteur of the commissions for the scientific expeditions to the Morea (1829) and to Algiers (1839). In 1830 he was appointed professor of German language and literature at the École polytechnique . In 1837 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Because of his competence in Greek and Latin epigraphy, he became president of the commission set up by Minister Abel-François Villemain in 1843 for the publication of a comprehensive corpus of Latin inscriptions. At the same time he was from 1842 to 1852 a member of the scientific commission for Algeria, which was to publish the Latin inscriptions there.

As an old teacher of the young princes, he entertained Emperor Napoleon III. good relations, to whom he owed the chair in comparative grammar created for him at the Faculté des lettres of the University of Paris in 1852. From 1812 he was a corresponding member, from 1850 a full member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1821 he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

On August 28, 1812 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Berlin University. In 1842 he was accepted into the Prussian order Pour le Mérite .

An excellent knowledge of Greek and palaeography , he was not a prolific writer. But Hase has made a name for himself in the new edition of Stephanus ' Thesaurus graecae linguae (Paris 1832–65, 9 vols.), Which was mainly edited with the brothers Wilhelm and Ludwig Dindorf .

He also wrote an edition of Leo Diaconus (Paris 1819; revised in the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae , Bonn 1828), from Johannes Lydos ' De ostentis et de mensibus (Paris 1823) and a number of monographs.

His student Emmanuel Miller (1810-1886) was his second successor in 1876 on the chair for Modern Greek at the École des langues orientales.

literature

  • Notice historique sur l'École Spéciale des Langues Orientales Vivantes. Ernest Leroux, Paris 1883, pp. 19–20, 38, 41, 57: Tableau des Professeurs (Villoison and Hase gave cours provisoires = cp before the chair was officially established), online (PDF; 8.2 MB)
  • Order Pour le mérite for sciences and arts: Entry sv Hase, Karl Benedikt
  • Mayotte Bollack , Heinz Wismann (Eds.): Philology and Hermeneutics in the 19th Century / Philologie et herméneutique en 19ème siècle , Vol. 2, Göttingen 1983, pp. 76-98.
  • Joseph Daniel Guigniant: Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Ch. B. Hase , in: Mémoires de l'Institut 27, 1867, pp. 247-273.
  • Karl Felix Halm :  Hare, Karl Benedict . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 725-727.
  • Sandrine Maufroy: Hellénisme, philhellénisme et transferts culturels triangulaires: le cas de Charles Benoît Hase , in: Revue germanique internationale [Online], 1-2 | 2005, published online : October 20, 2008, visited on August 9, 2013.
  • Ève Gran-Aymerich : Karl Benedikt Hase (1780–1864) et Désiré Raoul-Rochette (1789–1854) d'après leur correspondance: Deux médiateurs culturels entre France et Allemagne à la Bibliothèque Nationale (1801–1864) in: Corinne Bonnet- Véronique Krings (ed.), S 'écrire et écrire sur l' Antiquité. L'apport des correspondances à l 'histoire des travaux scientifiques, Grenoble 2008, 83-103.
  • Ève Gran-Aymerich, Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg : L'Antiquité partagée. Correspondances franco-allemandes (1823–1861). Karl Benedikt Hase, Désiré Raoul-Rochette, Karl Otfried Müller, Otto Jahn, Theodor Mommsen (= Mémoires de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres 47). Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-87754-272-2 .
  • Igor P. Medvedev: The newly found text of a letter from Maximos Katelianos: another forgery from Karl Benedikt Hase. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift Vol. 109 (2016) pp. 821-836.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the following cf. the tabular overview of the biographical data in Ève Gran-Aymerich, Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg, L'Antiquité partagée. Correspondances franco-allemandes (1823-1861) , Paris 2012, pp. 373–374.
  2. ^ Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg: Theodor Mommsen and France . In: Francia 31/3, 2004, pp. 1-27.
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 105.
  4. ^ John Scheid: Le projet français d'un recueil des inscriptions latines , in: Bartolomeo Borghesi: Scienza e libertá , Bologna 1982, p. 353.
  5. ^ Members of the previous academies. Benedict Rabbit. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 1, 2015 .
  6. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Karl Benedikt Hase. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 13, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Hare, Karl Benedikt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bunny, Charles Benoît
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical philologist of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Sulza , Naumburg
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1864
Place of death Paris