Karl Hirzel

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Karl Christian Friedrich Hirzel (born May 10, 1808 in Künzelsau , † April 12, 1874 in Stuttgart ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

After studying Classical Antiquities at the Preachers' Seminary in Urach and the University of Tübingen , Hirzel became a repetiteur at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Tübingen in 1834 . In 1835 he went to the Nürtingen Latin School as principal . In 1845 he moved to the seminar in Maulbronn and was appointed professor.

Hirzel moved to Stuttgart in 1852 when he was promoted to senior lecturer level and worked at the Royal High School. After the death of Professor Ernst Christian Walz , Hirzel was appointed to one of the two chairs for Classical Philology at the University of Tübingen in 1857 and was appointed first chairman of the Department of Classical Philology. In 1864 he went back to the grammar school in Tübingen as rector . In 1868 he received the Knight's Cross of the Württemberg Order of Frederick . He remained active at the University of Tübingen as an associate professor.

Hirzel strove throughout his life to improve the school system in the Württemberg civil service. For those of August Ludwig Reyscher published edited Complete, historically and critically collection Württembergische laws edited Hirzel 11 band (Tübingen 1847), which contains the laws for Central and technical schools, and supplemented it with a history of higher education in Wuerttemberg.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1869, page 82