Karl Friedrich Heinrich
Karl Friedrich Heinrich (born February 8, 1774 in Molschleben near Gotha ; † February 20, 1838 in Bonn ) was a German classical philologist who worked as a professor at the Universities of Kiel (1804-1818) and Bonn (1818-1838).
Life
Karl Friedrich Heinrich was the son of a superintendent. He attended the monastery school in Donndorf and the grammar school in Gotha , where the teachers Friedrich Jacobs and Johann Kaspar Friedrich Manso shaped him. At the request of his father, Heinrich studied theology at the University of Göttingen from 1791 , but under the influence of Christian Gottlob Heynes (who had also been Jacobs' teacher) he switched to philology. Even as a student, Heinrich published text-critical studies and, at Heyne's suggestion, dealt increasingly with Virgil's Aeneid .
Heinrich got his first job as early as 1795 on the recommendation of his former teacher Manso at the Maria Magdalenen Gymnasium in Breslau . Here he continued his literary activity and published critical editions on Epimenides and Hesiod . In 1804, his academic reputation earned him the professorship for eloquence and the Greek language from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1814/15 he was rector of the CAU.
In the following years Heinrich continued his publishing activities and tried to improve the situation of Kiel philology students in order to strengthen the subject in the Duchy of Schleswig . At that time, Kiel was the northernmost university in Germany. In order to facilitate the study of philology, Heinrich wanted to control the scholarship Philologicum , which had existed since 1777 ; So far, the theology professor Samuel Gottfried Geyser had the scholarship. Heinrich's application from 1805 to transfer the Philologicum scholarship to him was rejected by the faculty. Heinrich's initiative was not successful until after Geyser's death (1808). In 1809, the Schleswig government set up a philological institute for the purpose of teacher training using the funds from the scholarship . Heinrich took over the management tacitly, but he was not paid for the additional work and also not officially appointed as director.
The numerous resignations, the unsatisfactory situation and frequent arguments with the other professors and with the university's board of trustees prompted Heinrich to discontinue his lectures several times. In 1818 he left the University of Kiel and went to the newly founded University of Bonn , where he founded the Philological Department together with August Ferdinand Naeke (1788–1838) and directed it for twenty years until his death. In Bonn his teaching activity flourished again under the new, better conditions; however, he hardly got any publications.
Individual evidence
literature
- Karl Felix Halm : Heinrich, Karl Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 647 f.
- Helga Plöger: Studies on the history of classical philology at the University of Kiel 1773–1852 . Kiel 1972 (dissertation).
Web links
- Literature by Karl Friedrich Heinrich in the catalog of the German National Library
First chair (since 1972 C3 professorship): Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1804–1818) | Wilhelm Wachsmuth (1820–1825) | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1827-1852) | Georg Curtius (1854–1862) | Otto Ribbeck (1862–1872) | August Wilmanns (1873–1874) | Eduard Lübbert (1874–1881) | Richard Foerster (1881–1890) | Ivo Bruns (1890–1901) | Siegfried Brewhouse (1901–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1915–1921) | Christian Jensen (1921–1926) | Manfred Fuhrmann (1962–1966) | Antonie Wlosok (1968–1972) | Herbert Juhnke (1972–1997) | Lore Benz (1997-2001) | Hans Bernsdorff (2002–2003) | Jan Radicke (since 2004)
Second chair: Friedrich Blass (1881–1892) | Alfred Schöne (1892–1902) | Paul Wendland (1902–1906) | Felix Jacoby (1907-1935) | Erich Burck (1938–1969) | Ernst Doblhofer (1971–1984) | Konrad Heldmann (1985-2005) | Thorsten Burkard (since 2005)
Third chair (until 1921 extraordinary): Johann Matthias Schultz (1802–1846) | Erwin Rohde (1872–1876) | Friedrich Blass (1876–1881) | Friedrich Leo (1881–1883) | Christian Lütjohann (1884) | Ivo Bruns (1886–1890) | Otto Rossbach (1890–1895) | Ernst Bickel (1909–1921) | Johannes Stroux (1922–1923) | Eduard Fraenkel (1923–1928) | Richard Harder (1930-1941) | Hans Diller (1942–1973) | Ernst-Richard Schwinge (1976–1999) | Lutz Käppel (since 1999)
First chair: Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1818–1838) | Ludwig Schopen (1840–1867) | Friedrich Heimsoeth (1865–1877) | Eduard Lübbert (1881–1889) | Anton Elter (1890–1925) | Christian Jensen (1926–1938) | Hans Herter (1938–1967) | Hartmut Erbse (1968–1984) | Thomas A. Schmitz (since 2003)
Second chair: August Ferdinand Naeke (1818–1838) | Friedrich Ritschl (1839–1865) | Hermann Usener (1866–1902) | August Brinkmann (1902–1923) | Georg Luck (1962–1972) | Willy Schetter (1972–1992)
Third chair: Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1819–1861) | Otto Jahn (1855–1869) | Franz Bücheler (1870–1906) | Friedrich Marx (1906–1927) | Ernst Bickel (1928–1948) | Wolfgang Schmid (1950–1978) | Otto Zwierlein (1979-2004) | Dorothee Gall (2005–2019) | Gernot Michael Müller (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinrich, Karl Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Molschleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1838 |
| Place of death | Bonn |