Karl Reinhardt (philologist)

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Karl Ludwig Reinhardt (born February 14, 1886 in Detmold ; † January 9, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German classical philologist .

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Karl Reinhardt grew up in Frankfurt am Main, where his father, the school reformer Karl Reinhardt , was appointed director of the municipal high school in 1886 . He attended the Goethe-Gymnasium , a reform high school founded in 1897 according to his father's Frankfurt curriculum, which his father was in charge of from 1897 to 1904.

Reinhardt was the grandson of the company founder Carl Johann Freudenberg of the Freudenberg Group .

In 1905 he began studying classical philology in Bonn , which he later continued and completed in Berlin . In Berlin he received his doctorate in 1910 under Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . He then worked at the universities in Bonn , Marburg and Hamburg before he was appointed to the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1923 . There he taught classical philology until his retirement in 1951, with the exception of the years from 1942 to 1945, which he spent at the University of Leipzig . At the same time as his appointment at Leipzig University, he was accepted as a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . The Bavarian Academy of Sciences appointed him a corresponding member in 1937. Since 1950 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and since 1954 a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Reinhardt is considered one of the most important Graecists of his time. He wrote numerous basic monographs and individual studies. His writings had a great influence on the thinking of both Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger .

In 1952 Reinhardt was accepted into the order Pour le Mérite for sciences and arts and in 1956 was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt. He died on January 9, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main.

Fonts

  • Parmenides and the History of Greek Philosophy. 1916. 5th, unchanged edition, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2012, ISBN 978-3-465-04144-3
  • Poseidonios . 1921.
  • Plato's myths. 1927. 2nd edition, with an afterword by Arbogast Schmitt, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2017, ISBN 978-3-465-04324-9
  • Sophocles . 1933. 6th edition, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2014, ISBN 978-3-465-04203-7
  • Aeschylus as a director and theologian. 1948.
  • Of works and forms. Lectures and essays. Küpper, Godesberg 1948.
  • The Iliad and its poet. Edited from the estate by Uvo Hölscher . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1961.
  • Memories of a teacher. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1961 (Christmas gift from the publisher, written 1957 for the anniversary issue of the Goethe-Gymnasium Frankfurt ).
  • Memories. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1966 (Christmas gift from the publisher, edited from the estate).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ De Graecorum theologia capita duo .
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Karl Reinhardt , member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Reinhardt, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhardt, Karl Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1958
Place of death Frankfurt am Main