Karl Prinz (classical philologist)
Karl Prinz (born February 9, 1872 in Nikolsburg , † February 14, 1945 in Graz ) was an Austrian classical philologist .
Life
Karl Prinz, the son of an elementary school director, began studying classical philology at the University of Vienna at the age of 17 . His academic teachers were Wilhelm von Hartel and Karl Schenkl . In 1895 he was charged with a dissertation on the Greek poet Theocritus and Moschos sub auspiciis Imperatoris Dr. phil. PhD . He passed the exam for the higher teaching post in 1896. During his studies, Prince had already worked as a substitute teacher at the grammar school in his hometown from 1893 to 1894. From 1897 he taught at various Viennese high schools for twenty years and pursued his academic career on the side. From 1900 to 1902 he worked as a research assistant at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae . In 1911, Prinz achieved his habilitation in Classical Philology in Vienna with a special focus on Roman literature.
In 1917, Prinz left school and took up an extraordinary professorship in Classical Philology at the University of Vienna. Just two years later he received a call from the University of Graz , where he was appointed full professor of classical philology as the successor to the late Richard Cornelius Kukula . In Graz, Prinz was active in teaching and research until the end of his life. In the year of his retirement (1939) he was appointed a corresponding member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences .
Karl Prinz was mainly a Latinist . His research consisted largely of individual interpretations of various Roman poets, including Manilius , Martial , Ovid , Properz , Phaedrus and Seneca . In his lectures he especially interpreted the poets of the Augustan period as well as the prose writers and poets of the 1st century AD.
literature
- Hubert Reitterer: Prince, Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 283 f. (Direct links on p. 283 , p. 284 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Prinz in the catalog of the German National Library
First chair: Albert Muchar (1827–1849) | Karlmann Tangl (1850–1863) | Karl Schenkl (1863–1875) | Otto Keller (1875–1881) | Alois Goldbacher (1882–1908) | Josef Mesk (1909–1914) | Richard Meister (1918–1920) | Karl Mras (1921–1933) | Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg (1926–1943) | Carl Koch (1943–1945) | Endre von Ivánka (1947–1961) | Karl Vretska (1961–1971) | Eugen Dönt (1971–1981) | Walter Pötscher (1982–1997) | Eveline Krummen (since 1999)
Second chair: Emanuel Hoffmann (1850–1856) | Max Theodor von Karajan (1857–1904) | Richard Cornelius Kukula (1905-1919) | Karl Prinz (1919–1939) | Hans Gerstinger (1940–1960) | Franz Stoessl (1961–1981) | Franz Ferdinand Schwarz (1982–1996) | Ursula Gärtner (since 2016)
Third chair: Wilhelm Kergel (1871–1891) | Heinrich Schenkl (1892–1917) | Josef Mesk (1917–1940)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prince, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nikolsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1945 |
| Place of death | Graz |