Karl Bitterauf

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Karl Bitterauf (full name Karl Eduard Bitterauf , born January 2, 1874 in Windsheim , † October 27, 1940 in Amberg ) was a German classical philologist , natural science historian and high school teacher.

Life

Karl Bitterauf came from a Franconian family of craftsmen. His ancestors on his father's side had been master locksmiths for at least three generations, including his father Joseph Bitterauf, who was also a member of the Windsheim City Council; his mother was Henrike geb. Müller.

Bitterauf attended elementary school and the Latin school in his hometown and then the humanistic grammar school in Erlangen . After graduation (1892) he studied Protestant theology and classical philology at the universities in Erlangen and Berlin . In 1894, when he moved to the University of Munich , he gave up studying theology and switched entirely to classical philology. For six semesters he belonged to the philological seminar under Wilhelm von Christ , Iwan von Müller and Eduard von Wölfflin , the last two semesters as a senior. Wilhelm von Christ commissioned him to look through the sheets of a new edition of Aristotle 's Parva naturalia . This work gave Bitterauf rich suggestions that suggested a trip to Rome to inspect Aristotle's manuscripts. The Bavarian Academy of Sciences supported him for this trip in 1899 with 200 marks from the Thereianos Fund.

Bitterauf completed the preparatory service for the higher teaching post from 1898 at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich and at the educational seminar attached to it. In 1899 he switched to the humanistic grammar school in Ingolstadt . He published his doctoral thesis in its school program in 1900 . On April 1, 1902, Bitterauf went to the Progymnasium in Windsbach as a study teacher , on September 1, 1906 to the Old Gymnasium in Würzburg, and at the latest in 1910 to the Royal Humanistic Gymnasium in Kempten (Allgäu) . There he was awarded the title of professor on October 1, 1910.

On June 26, 1914, Bitterauf was appointed rector of the Progymnasium in Homburg . He took up his new office on September 1, 1914 and worked there for 14 years, starting in 1919 as senior studies director. Under his direction, the Progymnasium was transformed into a Reform Realgymnasium of the Frankfurt type. In 1928 Bitterauf moved to the humanistic grammar school in Schweinfurt as rector . During the time of National Socialism , Bitterauf gave up the management of the school and was transferred to the grammar school in Amberg as senior teacher . From June 4 to November 16, 1934, he was provisional director of the directorate after the headmaster Michael Flemisch had retired. Bitterauf himself retired on July 28, 1938 and died two years later in Amberg.

Scientific work

Bitterauf's scientific work focused primarily on the biological writings of Aristotle . His studies of the Parva naturalia did not get beyond the beginnings because of frequent transfers. However, Bitterauf remained connected to Aristotle research by writing reviews. In Würzburg the director Leonhard Dittmeyer , himself an Aristotle researcher, recommended a new task to him: the edition of the font De generatione animalium for the Bibliotheca Teubneriana . After a long hesitation, Bitterauf accepted, took over Dittmeyer's material and had two more manuscripts photographed himself. For this purpose the Bavarian Academy of Sciences granted him another 300 marks from the Thereianos Fund in 1911.

As a result of his efforts, Bitterauf published some preparatory work on the history of the text and the criticism of the text De generatione animalium . In addition, he dealt with a sophistic treatise from the 4th century BC. BC, the so-called Anonymus Iamblichi . This study worked largely completely on the research literature on this work, anchored it in the philosophical and rhetorical tradition of its time and confirmed the judgment that the author could not be determined with certainty. During his time as headmaster, his scientific work gradually came to a standstill. The Aristotle edition had developed so far that his colleague Hans Meyer was able to use it for an essay around 1918. However, it was not published. It was not until 1967 that Hendrik Joan Drossaart Lulofs published his own edition in the Oxford Classical Texts series , which included Bitterauf's text studies.

Fonts (selection)

  • Quaestiunculae criticae ad Aristotelis Parva naturalia pertinentes. Munich 1900 (dissertation); repeated in the program of the Humanist Gymnasium Ingolstadt, school year 1899/1900
  • The Anonymous Jamblichi. In: Bavarian sheets for high school education. Volume 46, 1910, pp. 321-333
  • The final part of Aristotelian biology. Contributions to the history of the text and criticism of the text 'De generatione animalium'. Kempten 1913 (school program)
  • New text studies for the final part of Aristotelian biology. Kempten 1914 (school program)
  • Anonymous Iamblichi . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplement volume III, Stuttgart 1918, Sp. 116-118.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Bitterauf  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information based on the curriculum vitae in the first print of his dissertation, Munich 1900, after p. 27 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Place of death according to the kind notification of the Amberg City Archives, May 9, 2017.
  3. ^ Almanac of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences for the 150th Foundation Festival. Munich 1909, p. 95 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Personnel status of the grammar schools, Progymnasien and Latin schools in the Kingdom of Bavaria as of February 1, 1905. Munich 1905, p. 98.
  5. ↑ Staff news . In: Sheets for high school education. Volume 42, 1906, p. 575.
  6. ↑ a b Annual report on the Amberg grammar school and on the Amberg study seminar for the school year 1938/1939. Amberg 1939, p. 4.
  7. ↑ 325 years of the Schweinfurt high school. Schweinfurt 1959, p. 10.
  8. ^ Annual report on the Humanist High School Amberg and on the Amberg study seminar for the school year 1933/1934. Amberg 1934, p. 4.
  9. ^ Annual report on the Humanist High School Amberg and on the Amberg study seminar for the school year 1934/1935. Amberg 1935, p. 4.
  10. ↑ Annual report on the Amberg high school and on the Amberg state school home for the war year 1940/41. Amberg 1941, p. 4.
  11. ^ Yearbook of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences 1912. Munich 1913, p. 89 ( digitized version ).
  12. ↑ Hans Meyer: The inheritance problem with Aristotle. In: Philologus. Volume 75, 1918, pp. 323-363, especially p. 325, note 9.
personal data
SURNAME Bitterauf, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bitterauf, Karl Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, natural science historian and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Windsheim
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1940
Place of death On the mountain