Karl Fuhr (philologist)

Karl Heinrich Fuhr (born August 13, 1853 in Bückeburg , † January 18, 1917 in Marburg ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school teacher who taught at the grammar school in Elberfeld from 1878 to 1891 and from 1891 to 1911 at the Joachimsthalschen grammar school in Berlin . Then he was director of the grammar school in Luckau (1911-1913) and the grammar school Philippinum (Marburg) (1913-1917). He emerged through several editions of Greek speakers, especially Demosthenes , and was (co-) editor of the Berlin philological weekly from 1902 .

Life

Karl Fuhr was the son of the supervisor Wilhelm Fuhr and Caroline born. Miner. He grew up in Bückeburg in the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe and attended the grammar school there from 1864 to 1872 . After graduating from high school (March 25, 1872), he did one year military service in Halle an der Saale . He then studied classical philology and history in Leipzig (winter semester 1873/74 – summer semester 1874) before moving to the University of Bonn . There he entered the historical seminar under the direction of Karl Menzel , Moriz Ritter and Arnold Dietrich Schaefer as well as the philological seminar under Franz Bücheler and Hermann Usener , in which he found rich stimulus for scientific work. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Bücheler and Usener, emerged from the seminar exercises, with which he became a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . On December 12, 1877, Fuhr passed the state examination for the higher teaching post in Bonn and received the teaching license ( facultas docendi ) in the subjects Greek, Latin, history and geography for all classes, in the subject German in the middle classes.

After completing his studies, Fuhr entered the preparatory service for the Prussian grammar schools. From January 7th to December 31st, 1878 he completed the probationary year at the grammar schools in Bonn and Elberfeld , where he was employed as a regular academic assistant teacher on January 1st, 1879. On October 10th of the same year he was given a permanent position as a full teacher at the same grammar school. On April 1, 1886 he was appointed senior teacher. On February 28, 1891 he received the title of professor.

On April 1, 1891, Fuhr moved to the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin , where he worked for twenty years (until October 1, 1897 also as the school's librarian). During this time he was awarded the rank of Councilor IV Class (June 26, 1897) and the Order of the Red Eagle IV Class (August 24, 1908). On October 1, 1911, Fuhr was appointed director of the high school in Luckau . Only a year and a half later (May 1, 1913) he moved (as the successor to the late Friedrich Aly ) to the Philippinum grammar school in Marburg , which he directed until his death. In Marburg he was involved in the German Gymnasium Association, among other things.

Scientific work

Karl Fuhr occupied himself with Greek prose throughout his life, especially with the Attic orators and the imperial sophist Plutarch . After his dissertation, he published several articles in the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . On behalf of the Teubner publishing house , he took on several book projects at the end of the 1870s. He revised school editions of Plutarch's biographies by Karl Sintenis (4th edition, 1880–1881), selected speeches by Lysias by Rudolf Rauchstein (8th to 12th edition, 1880–1917) and selected speeches by Demosthenes by Karl Rehdantz (9th edition 1909). He also prepared a critical edition of Demosthenes, the first part of which appeared in 1912 ( editio minor ) and 1914 ( editio maior ). The second part did not get beyond the preparatory work; Johannes Sykutris took over the completion of it in the 1920s , but only managed part of it himself (1937).

As the editor, Fuhr took on many responsible tasks. He prepared the first volume of Usener's Small Writings (1912) and published the 4th (corrected) edition of Friedrich Blass ' Edition of the Andokides speeches (1913). Above all, however, in July 1902 he joined the editorial team of the Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift , an ancient scholarly review organ that appears weekly. After the death of the second editor Oskar Seyffert (1906) he managed the editorial business alone until his death.

Fonts (selection)

• Animadversiones ad oratores Atticos . Bonn 1877 (dissertation)
• Demosthenis orationes. Edidit Carolus Fuhr. Editio minor. Volume I, pars I orationes I – XVII continens . Leipzig 1912
• Demosthenis orationes. Edidit Carolus Fuhr. Editio maior . Volume 1 in 3 parts (speeches I-XIX), Leipzig 1914. Reprint Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 978-3-8154-1254-1
• Demosthenis orationes. Post Carolum Fuhr edidit Johannes Sykutris. Editio maior . Volume 2, part 1 (speeches 20-26), Leipzig 1937 (no more published)
• Andocidis orationes. Edidit Fridericus Blass . Editio quarta correctior, Leipzig 1913. Reprint Stuttgart 1966

literature

• School news . In: Elberfeld high school. Report on the school year 1878–1879 . Elberfeld 1879, p. 35
• Chronicle . In: Annual report on the Königl. Joachimsthal High School for the school year 1891/1892 . Berlin 1892, p. 15
• Biographical and bibliographical directory of the teachers at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium since 1826 . In: Annual report on the Königl. Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium for the school year 1898/1899 . Berlin 1899, p. 22
• Annual report of the Royal Philippinum grammar school in Marburg for the school year 1913/14 . Marburg 1914
• Marburg local group of the German High School Association . In: The humanistic high school . Volume 28 (1917), p. 164

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Fuhr  - Sources and full texts

• Karl Fuhr's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)