Karl Kunze (philologist)

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Karl Kunze, 1890

Karl Peter Lebrecht Kunze (born February 1, 1840 in Cosel in Upper Silesia , † April 26, 1895 in Lissa ) was a German philologist and the first editor of " Kunze's calendar ".

Life

Karl Kunze was the eldest son of Friedrich Gotthold Kunze (1807–1876), who, as a teacher at the royal garrison school in Kosel, wrote one of the first school books in 1847 (" Wall picture primer . A supplement to the first reading book for all elementary schools") . Karl Kunze made his Abitur on February 11, 1860 at the grammar school in Ratibor and studied at the universities of Breslau and Berlin . He received his examination certificate on December 12, 1865 from the University of Breslau. Almost at the same time he received his doctorate from the University of Jena on December 24, 1865 for his dissertation on the unraveling of questions about Sophocles Antigone ("Quaestiones Sophocleae"). He received his teaching qualification for religion , German and literary studies in all classes, in ancient languages up to Obersekunda , in history and geography up to Quarta and in French within the lower classes.

Kunze became a Prussian high school teacher and later a high school director . He began his career at Easter 1866 as the first full teacher in Grünberg , became rector of the boys 'and girls' school in Nakel at Easter 1870, rector of the grammar school in Nakel in 1872, in 1873 director of the grammar school in Rogasen , in 1882 director of the grammar school in Schneidemühl . On April 10, 1888, he was transferred to the Royal Comenius High School in Lissa, Poznan, as director . In addition to his appointment as a grammar school director, Kunze was also the chairman of the assembly of delegates for the provincial associations of academically educated teachers in Prussia .

Karl Kunze was married to Anna Maria geb. Vangerow (1845-1922); they had seven children, including the later squadron doctor Dr. Karl Kunze (1871–1914) from the imperial yacht Hohenzollern .

Kunze's calendar

On behalf of the Prussian delegates 'conference in 1893, Kunze developed the "Philologists' yearbook for the higher education system in Prussia and some other German countries". All students in secondary schools are familiar with the little green book in which the teachers wrote their personal, more or less pleasant notes, especially the oral performance during the class. Far more important for the philologists, however, is the second part of the work, which is a fairly complete overview of the seniority list of the planned higher administrative officials, the male and female philologists of every grade at the public higher schools, the higher agricultural schools, the higher German schools abroad and other higher education Technical schools includes. “I hope that the calendar will make a significant contribution to eliminating many prejudices and erroneous assessments of the conditions of the higher teaching level. The last negotiations in the House of Representatives on the occasion of the culture budget have amply demonstrated that such exist. This is not the place for polemics. May others draw the conclusion from the material that I offer elsewhere. ”(Karl Kunze in the foreword to the 2nd year 1895).

For the first editions, the publisher did not have any official documents at their disposal, so Kunze's calendar did some basic work. “The creation of the Kunze calendar is a great achievement of the Prussian philologists' associations. In the end, we owe everything that we have achieved to the Kunze calendar, which relentlessly exposed the wounds and opened up the boil of the auxiliary teacher misery of the 90s. ”(Deutsches Philologen-Blatt, 1921). The Prussian ministerial administration soon recognized the value of the systematic presentation by Karl Kunze and from 1901 made official material available for further editions.

The first edition of Kunze's calendar appeared in 1894/95 and thus during the publisher's lifetime. After his death, others took on the task of the annual publication in the individual countries, for example Emil Toeplitz, Eduard Simon, Hans Heiland, Friedrich Kissler / Heinz Brüggemann, Horst Carls / Günther Haack and currently Bernard Spaniol in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the meantime, information about German schools abroad has been outsourced to the " Auslands-Kunze " as an independent publication. Kunze's calendar continues to exist as a philologist yearbook, particularly in the former Prussian states and in some cases also in individual non-Prussian states. Even today, the relevant information is collected from the schools on October 1st each year and published in the annually published " Kunze ". In North Rhine-Westphalia, this is done by the advisor for the Philology Yearbook (Bernhard Spaniol) at the publishing house for the Philology Yearbook in Münster. For the 2010/11 school year, the approximately 1,000-page work was published in the 110th year.

literature

  • Alfred von Sanden: On the history of the Lissa school 1555–1905. Lissa 1905.
  • German philologist sheet: Kunze calendar and philologist stand. No. 11/1921
  • Teaching and school. 40 years of the “Kunze Calendar”. In: Berliner Börsen-Zeitung. No. 597/1933
  • Hans Heiland (Hrsg.): Philologist yearbook (Kunzes calendar) for the higher education system in Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Bremen. Cologne and Münster 1961.
  • Philologists Association of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Philologen-Jahrbuch (Kunzes Calendar). 108th year, Münster 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Kunze, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kunze, Karl Peter Lebrecht (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and first editor of "Kunze's calendar"
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Cosel , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1895
Place of death Lissa , poses