Karl Ludwig Philipp Troß

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Karl Ludwig Philipp Troß , mostly just Ludwig Troß (born April 11, 1795 in Senßweiler near Trarbach , † May 23, 1864 in Homburg ) was a German philologist and historian .

Ludwig Troß attended the grammar school in Sensweiler, from 1811 to 1814 he studied Protestant theology, first in Strasbourg then from 1813 in Gießen . In autumn 1815 he became a teacher at the commercial institute in Hagen . After the teacher examination in Münster in 1818 , he became vice principal at the Hammonense grammar school in Hamm, Westphalia . From 1821 to 1823 he was temporarily employed as a library in Münster, where he was involved in the systematization of the grammar school library. In 1829 he was promoted to senior teacher in Hamm , a position he held until his retirement in 1858. He died during a Mosel travel in Homburg, in the house of his relatives, at a pneumonia .

His first works were dedicated to classical works up to the early Middle Ages , such as the Moselle poem by Ausonius , later on Phaedrus , Tacitus , Cassiodorus . There are also a number of larger publications on literature and history of the Middle Ages and the Reformation period . He made great contributions to Westphalian history in particular. Among other things, he translated the Chronicle of Levold von Northof for the Counts of the Mark and Archbishops of Cologne . He was also often active as an editor, for example Hammisches Wochenblatt, mainly for the purpose of telling about Westphalian-Rhenish history . which appeared in Hamm in 1825. He also published under the pseudonym TL Moseler . August Friedrich Gfrörer considered him one of the greatest scholars and best connoisseur of the sources of the Middle Ages.

Works (selection)

  • Des Albius Tibullus tenth elegy of the first book, Latin and German, with comments on the same elegy and some other passages by this poet , Hamm 1819.
  • (Ed.): Floia; cortum versicale des Flois swartibus illis diericulis, quae omnes fere Menschos, Mannos, Weibras, Jungfras etc. behuppere et spitzibus suis snafflis steckere et bitere solent. Auctore Gripholdo Knicknackio ex Flolandia. Editio nova , Münster, Hamm 1822.
  • (Ed.): Gert van der Schüren: Chronicle of Cleve and Mark. For the first time ed. and provided with an introduction, historical evidence and the necessary language explanations , Hamm 1824.
  • Ammianus Marcellinus translated Roman history , Stuttgart 1827.
  • History of the fall of the Jesuits in the 18th century (1750-1782) by Count Alexis von Saint-Priest , Hamm 1845 (translated under the pseudonym "TL Moseler")
  • Gilleberti carmina, nunc primum edidit Lud. Tross , Hamm 1849 (poems of the 12th century, probably written in Belgium).
  • The celebration in Hamm. A souvenir sheet for the party members , Hamm 1857.
  • Levold's von Northof Chronicle of the Counts of the Mark and the Archbishops of Cologne. Self-published, Hamm 1859.
  • Werner Rolevink. From the praise of old Saxony, now called Westphalia. In the original text from the first edition (1478) [with German translation] , Heberle, Cologne 1865.
  • (Ed.): Des Count Wolrad von Waldeck's diary during the Reichstag in Augsburg 1548 (library of the literary association in Stuttgart 59), Stuttgart 1869.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ August Friedrich Gfrörer : Pope Gregorius VII and his age , vol. 7, F. Hurter, Schaffhausen 1861, p. XI.
personal data
SURNAME Troß, Karl Ludwig Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Senßweiler near Trarbach
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1864
Place of death Homburg