Karl Ludwig Struve

Karl Ludwig Struve (born May 2, 1785 in Hanover , † June 17, 1838 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.

Life

Karl Ludwig Struve belonged to the family of scholars Struve on. His father Jacob Struve was the rector of the Hanover Lyceum . The astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve and the physician Ludwig August Struve were his brothers, the philologist Theodor Struve his nephew.

In 1791 the family moved to Altona and Karl Ludwig Struve attended the Christianeum grammar school there , of which his father became the director. After graduating from school, he began to study theology and philology in Göttingen in 1801 . As early as 1802 he won a gold medal there for solving a prize task. He then moved to the University of Kiel in his native Holstein , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1803. In 1804 he moved to Livonia as a private tutor and in the same year became a teacher at the grammar school in Dorpat . In 1805 he completed his habilitation at the University of Dorpat and then taught classical philology there in addition to his high school activity . Because he could not get a professorship there, he moved to the position of director of the old town high school in Königsberg in 1814 . There he published works on classical philology and mathematics. Struve arranged for the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel to translate Fundamenta Astronomiae into Latin.

Karl Ludwig Struve died in Königsberg on June 17, 1838. He and his wife Wilhelmine had four daughters and two sons.

Fonts

• De doctrina Graecorum et Romanorum de statu animarum post mortem. Altona 1803.
• Observationum et emendationum in propertium edendum specimen. Kiel 1804.
• Dissertation pro venia legendi de elementis Epidoclis. Dorpat 1805.
• Consilium de nova editione SA Properties mox adornanda. Dorpat 1806.
• Juvenal's first satire translated metrically and accompanied by a commentary. Dorpat 1807.
• Greek grammar for the grammar schools of the teaching district of the k. University of Dorpat. Riga and Dorpat 1816.
• Theory of parallel lines. Koenigsberg 1820.
• On the political verse of the Central Greeks, a treatise. Hildesheim 1828.
• Quaestionum de dialecto Herodoti specimen. Koenigsberg 1828.
• Opuscula selecta Caroli Ludovici Struvii, edidit J. Th. Struve . Vol. I et II. Leipzig 1854.

literature

• Ludwig Stieda :  Struve, Karl Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 687-690.
• Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1259-1261 .