Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Völcker

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Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Völcker (born July 21, 1798 in Lich , † January 31, 1841 in Gießen ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Völker, the son of the preacher Johann Heinrich Völcker († 1810) and the pastor's daughter Ernestine born. Draw (* 1779), studied theology and philology at the University of Giessen . On December 14, 1818 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD ; However, he did not complete his dissertation on the uncertain author of the Dialogus de oratoribus . In the following year, 1819 , he completed his habilitation at the University of Classical Philology and has held lectures as a private lecturer ever since.

In 1818 Völcker entered the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in Giessen , where he worked as a collaborator and later as a full teacher. In addition to his school service and his work at the university, he wrote scientific papers on Greek mythology , in particular on the geographical location of Greek myths and cults. His work was lively discussed by his colleagues. Völcker was in contact with Karl Otfried Müller and Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker by letter for a long time .

Völcker's work was affected by a protracted lung disease that caused him to retire on March 11, 1831. A few years later he founded a private school, where Gustav Baur taught, among others . After Völcker's death at the age of 42, Baur ran this school until the end of the current school year and then closed it.

Fonts (selection)

  • The mythology of the Japanese race, or the fall of man according to Greek myths . Giessen 1824
  • About the meaning of Ψυχή and Εἴδωλον in the Iliad and Odyssey, as a contribution to Homeric psychology . Giessen 1825 (school program)
  • About Homeric geography and world studies . Hanover 1830
  • Mythical geography of the Greeks and Romans . First part, Leipzig 1832 (no longer published)
  • About traces of foreign, non-Hellenic, god cults from Homer . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . Vol. 1,2 (1832), pp. 191-217

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the now living German writers . Volume 21, Lemgo 1827, p. 221
  • New yearbooks for philology and education . Volume 32 (1841), p. 460
  • Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator Philologorum . Leipzig 1871, p. 594
  • Wilhelm Pökel : Philological writer's lexicon . Leipzig 1882, p. 290

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Völcker  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Kössler: Catalog of the dissertations and habilitation theses of the University of Giessen from 1801-1884 . Gießen 1971 ( reports and papers from the University Library Gießen 22), p. 13.
  2. ^ Franz Kössler: Directory of doctoral degrees at the University of Giessen . Gießen 1970 ( reports and works from the University Library Gießen 17), p. 106.
personal data
SURNAME Völcker, Karl Heinrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Völcker, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Lich
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1841
Place of death to water