Karl Mayhoff

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Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (born February 20, 1841 in Neustrelitz , † August 3, 1914 in Dresden ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.

Life

Grave of Karl Mayhoff in the Trinity cemetery in Dresden

Karl Mayhoff, the son of forge master Bernhard Joachim Mayhoff and Christiane Henriette Marie born. Sandmann, attended the Carolinum grammar school in Neustrelitz from 1851 to 1859 and studied classical philology at the universities of Jena and Breslau from 1859 to 1862 . He then worked for a year as a private tutor for Prince Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen . In October 1863 he returned to Neustrelitz, devoted himself to scientific studies and taught from Easter to Michaelis 1864 as a substitute teacher at the Carolinum grammar school. On October 1, 1864, he went back to Breslau and prepared his dissertation there with Friedrich Haase , with which he was awarded a doctorate on July 3, 1865. phil. received his doctorate .

Mayhoff completed the probationary year for higher education at the Friedrichsgymnasium in Breslau. On April 1, 1866, he went as a trial candidate (from March 1867 collaborator) to the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau , where many academically active teachers taught under the then rector Karl Gottlob Schönborn . Mayhoff's colleagues included Hugo Blümner , Gustav Dzialas , Gustav Eitner , Adolf Engler , Richard Foerster , Ferdinand Meister and Rudolf Peiper . Mayhoff left Breslau as early as 1869 and went to the Vitzthumsche Gymnasium in Dresden as a senior teacher , where he received the title of professor in 1872. On September 20, 1884, he was appointed rector of the Nikolaischule in Leipzig and took up this position on October 25, 1884. In addition to the business of the rectorate, he was professor of the upper prima and taught Latin, Greek and history in the lower prima. On April 26, 1890, he retired for health reasons and moved back to Dresden, where he died on August 3, 1914 at the age of 73. He was buried in the Trinity Cemetery.

Karl Mayhoff was born on July 25, 1886 with Julie Siebs (1853–1924) married. One of the couple's sons was the ornithologist Hugo Mayhoff (1888–1917).

Since his studies, Mayhoff's research focus has been the textual criticism of the Naturalis historia of the elder Pliny . As early as his dissertation (1865) he drew the attention of one of the leading researchers in this field at the time, the philologist Ludwig von Jan , who dealt in detail with Mayhoff's results in a review. Jan then revised his text edition of Naturalis historia , which first appeared in 1854–1865, for the publishing house B. G. Teubner ; after his death in 1869, Mayhoff received the order from the publisher to continue the revision based on his own studies. Mayhoff devoted his entire life to this task and published several editions of the five volumes. In between, he published excerpts of his text-critical studies in school programs and smaller essays. Jans and Mayhoff's edition still forms the basis for dealing with the natural history of Pliny to this day.

Fonts (selection)

  • Lucubrationum Plinianarum capita tria . Neustrelitz 1865 (dissertation, University of Breslau)
  • De Rhiani Cretensis studiis Homericis . Dresden 1870
  • Novae lucubrationes Plinianae . Leipzig 1874 (school program)
  • as editor: C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis historiae libri XXXVII. Post Ludovici Iani obitum recognovit et scripturae discrepantia adiecta edidit Carolus Mayhoff. 6 volumes, Leipzig 1892–1906; Reprint Stuttgart 1967.

literature

  • Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Leipzig 1871, p. 363f.
  • Wilhelm Pökel : Philological writer's lexicon . Leipzig 1882, p. 170
  • Conrad Bursian : History of Classical Philology in Germany from the Beginnings to the Present . Munich / Leipzig 1883, p. 970
  • Festschrift for the 250th anniversary of the St. Maria Magdalena grammar school in Breslau on April 30, 1893 . Breslau 1893, p. 56
  • Ernst Bischoff : The teaching staff of the Nicolaigymnasium in Leipzig 1816–1896 / 97: Biographical-bibliographical contributions to school history . Leipzig 1897, p. 50f.
  • Central literary sheet for Germany . No. 34, August 22, 1914, col. 1157
  • German biographical yearbook . 1. Volume 1914-1916 (1925), p. 300
  • German gender book . Volume 198 (1991), p. 246

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Mayhoff  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New yearbooks for philology and education . Volume 36, Volume 93 (1866), pp. 681-698.
personal data
SURNAME Mayhoff, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayhoff, Karl Friedrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1914
Place of death Dresden