Karl Keyßner

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Karl Keyßner

Karl Keyßner (born December 14, 1906 in Würzburg , † July 17, 1978 in Coburg ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.

Life

Karl Keyßner, the son of the businessman Otto Keyßner and his wife Anna geb. Wolfert, grew up in Würzburg, where he attended elementary school and the new grammar school. After graduation (Easter 1925) he studied law and classical philology at the University of Munich . In the third semester he decided entirely to study philology and switched to the University of Bonn for two semesters . From the summer semester of 1927 he studied at his home university in Würzburg , where he passed the first state examination at the end of the winter semester 1929/30 and was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . His dissertation on Greek hymns was supervised by Friedrich Pfister and was published in 1932 in the series Würzburg Studies on Classical Studies .

After completing his studies, Keyßner worked as a grammar school teacher, first at the old grammar school in Würzburg, from 1946 (as a teacher) at the grammar school in Fürth , from 1954 at the Jean-Paul grammar school in Hof (as senior teacher), from 1956 as senior director at the Casimirianum in Coburg . There he organized the extensions and the renovation of the historic school building according to the monument protection guidelines .

In retirement (from 1972) Keyßner was committed to preserving the historic cityscape of Coburg. Together with like-minded people, he founded the “Stadtbild Coburg” association in 1973, of which he was the first chairman (until 1976).

In addition to his work in the school service, Keyßner was scientifically active. Among other things, he published an annotated school edition on Plutarch's Pericles Vita and wrote numerous articles for the real encyclopedia of classical antiquity (RE) on Greek mythology and religion.

Fonts (selection)

  • Studies on the Greek hymn . Würzburg 1931 (partial print of the dissertation, with curriculum vitae p. 87)
  • Concept of God and conception of life in the Greek hymn . Stuttgart 1932 (extended dissertation). Reprinted in Ann Arbor 1980
  • Reflections on the dialogue of Tacitus . In: Studies on Tacitus. Carl Hosius on his 70th birthday on March 21, 1936 . ( Würzburger Studies on Classical Studies 9), Stuttgart 1936, pp. 94–116 (reprint in Viktor Pöschl (Ed.): Tacitus . Ways of Research 97, Darmstadt 1986, pp. 338–361)
  • The fine arts at Properz . In: Würzburg Studies . Volume 13 (1938), pp. 169-189 (reprint in Werner Eisenhut (Ed.): Properz . Ways of Research 237, Darmstadt 1975, pp. 264-186)
  • Fürth grammar school 1896–1950 and its history . Fuerth 1950
  • Plutarchus: Vitae parallelae. Pericles . Bamberg 1956

literature

  • Musarum Sedes 1605-2005. Festschrift for the 400th anniversary of the Casimirianum High School in Coburg . 2nd, supplemented edition, Coburg 2005
  • Casimirianum - Casimiriana. Establishment of the Casimiriana zu Coburg school association for the 400th school foundation festival of the Casimirianum grammar school in Coburg . Coburg 2005, p. 341.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Musarum Sedes 1605-2005. Festschrift for the 400th anniversary of the Casimirianum High School in Coburg . 2nd, supplemented edition, Coburg 2005, pp. 197–202.
  2. ^ History of the Coburg Cityscape Association , accessed on October 13, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Keyßner, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keyßner, Karl Ernst Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1978
Place of death Coburg