Karl Gerth

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Karl Gerth (full name Karl Ludwig Gerth , born January 16, 1889 in Gemünden am Main , † March 24, 1973 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German classical philologist , historian and grammar school director.

Life

His parents were the engine driver August Gerth and Anna geb. Schelbert. Karl Gerth grew up in Gemünden am Main and after his father's transfer to Fulda , where he attended high school. From the summer semester of 1909 he studied classical philology and history at the University of Göttingen ; His academic teachers included the philologists Friedrich Leo and Paul Wendland , the ancient historian Georg Busolt and the linguist Jacob Wackernagel .

Gerth completed his studies on January 31, 1913 with the teaching examination in the subjects Latin, Greek and history. As part of his preparatory service, he completed his seminar year at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover in 1913/14 . When the First World War broke out , he volunteered and did military service from August 1, 1914 to October 1915. After his honorable discharge, he became a graduate student at the Gymnasium Stade and taught there for eight and a half years. During this time he wrote a dissertation under the direction of Erich Ziebarth from the University of Hamburg on the economic history on the Greek island of Delos , with which he was awarded a doctorate on July 8, 1922. phil. received his doctorate .

In the post-war period Gerth joined the SPD and was a co-founder of the union of German administrative officials. Due to a staff reduction regulation, he was put into temporary retirement in 1924; in the same year he was elected a city councilor and was also a senator from 1924 to 1926. He then taught as a teacher at various schools: 1926/27 at the Helmholtz Realgymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg , 1927/28 at the Arndt Gymnasium Dahlem and from 1928 at the middle school in Rügenwalde . In 1934 he was transferred to the middle school in Kolberg , where he stayed until the end of the Second World War .

After the end of the war, Gerth lived first in Gera and then in Berlin until he became head of the municipal secondary school in Buxtehude in October 1948 (as senior director). He kept the rectorate until he reached retirement age in March 1954 and managed the position until September of the same year. He spent his retirement in Bad Kissingen .

Scientifically, Gerth dealt with various topics in the course of his life. Based on studies on the history of antiquity, which were reflected in his doctoral thesis and in numerous articles for Paulys Realenzyklopädie der Classical Antiquities (RE), he moved more and more to social history in the course of his political and trade union activities. In the 1930s and 1940s he published several textbooks, especially grammatical auxiliary books for teaching Latin, English, French and German. After the end of the Nazi era , he published a Russian-German pocket dictionary, two textbooks on the revolution of 1848 and a history textbook from the Congress of Vienna to the present (1949).

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the economics of Delos . Stade 1922 (dissertation, University of Hamburg)
  • Ten years of the union of German administrative officials . Berlin 1928
  • Latin short grammar . 3rd edition, Berlin 1933. 4th edition 1936. 7th edition 1948
  • Tables for the theory of Latin forms . 3rd edition, Berlin 1943
  • French conjugation tables with the irregular verbs . 3rd edition, Kolberg 1943
  • Latin easy. Latin form theory . 4th edition, Gera / Leipzig 1945
  • French short grammar . Berlin 1934
  • English short grammar . Gera 1945
  • Explanation of grammatical expressions . 2nd edition, Berlin 1945. 3rd edition 1946
  • Small pocket dictionary, German-Russian, Russian-German, with pronunciations . Gera 1946
  • Revolution of 1848. Birth of the labor movement . Berlin 1947. 2nd edition 1948
  • About unity and freedom. Origin and development of the revolution of 1848 . Berlin 1948
  • German short grammar . Berlin 1948
  • Write right. Rules of German spelling, including a dictionary and a list of the most common foreign words . 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 1949
  • with Friedrich Schmidt and Wally Schmelzer: The new face of the world. From the Congress of Vienna to the present day . Berlin / Hanover 1949. 2nd edition 1951 (= Ways of the Nations 7)
  • Four hundredth anniversary of the municipal secondary school in Buxtehude . Buxtehude 1952

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date and place of death according to information from the Bad Kissingen City Archives, November 14, 2013.
  2. ^ Jürgen Bohmbach: 700 years of Stader city constitution . 2nd edition, Stade 1981, p. 119.
  3. ↑ 600 years of the Halepaghen School. Commemorative publication for the 600th anniversary . Buxtehude 1991, p. 40.
  4. ↑ 600 years of the Halepaghen School. Commemorative publication for the 600th anniversary . Buxtehude 1991, p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Gerth, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerth, Karl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, historian and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemünden am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1973
Place of death Bad Kissingen