Karl Hoffmeister

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Karl Hoffmeister (born August 15, 1796 in Billigheim , † July 14, 1844 in Cologne ) was a German philologist , literary historian and educator.

Life

Karl Hoffmeister studied in Strasbourg and Heidelberg theology , followed in 1816 his teacher Jakob Friedrich Fries after Jena . He took part in the first Wartburg Festival in 1817 . He became a member of the original fraternity in 1817 after becoming a member of the Heidelberg fraternity of Teutonia in 1815 .

In 1821 he was rector of the Progymnasium in Moers , in 1832 a senior teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Cologne and in 1834 director of the grammar school in Bad Kreuznach, from where he returned to Cologne in 1842 to take over the directorate of the aforementioned grammar school.

Karl Hoffmeister was friends with Ernst von Schiller , who entrusted him with the remaining part of Friedrich Schiller's estate .

Works

  • Discussion of the principles of linguistic theory (Essen 1830, 2 vol.)
  • The worldview of Tacitus (Essen 1831)
  • Moral and religious view of the life of Herodotus (Essen 1832), dedicated to his friend Hermann Altgelt .
  • Romeo, or Education and Community Spirit (Essen. 1831–34, 3 vols.), In which he laid down an abundance of social and state educational ideas in popular form.
  • Schiller's life, intellectual development and works in context (Stuttgart 1838–42, 5 vols.), The first major biography of Schiller from the sources, with which the author also combined a detailed aesthetic assessment of Schiller's works, and the following
  • Supplements to Schiller's works; edited from his estate with the consent and cooperation of the Schiller family (Stuttgart 1840–1841, 4 vols.).
  • Schiller's life, intellectual development and works (Stuttgart: Becher, 1854)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Heinrich Döring: Ernst v. Schiller . In: Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen 19/1 (1841), pp. 528-536, esp. Pp. 535f ( Google Books ).

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmeister, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, literary historian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheap home
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1844
Place of death Cologne