Karl Rupprecht

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Karl Rupprecht (born August 29, 1889 in Uengershausen near Würzburg , † August 13, 1970 in Mindelheim ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Karl Rupprecht, the son of pastor Heinrich Rupprecht and his wife Auguste Christa Rupprecht, studied classical philology at the University of Munich . After the state examination (1912 and 1913) Rupprecht worked as an assistant at the philological seminar. Rupprecht also worked on the seminar for medieval philology and the newly founded educational seminar. From 1919 he held Latin and Greek language courses. On July 27, 1917 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . His dissertation, supervised by Albert Rehm , did not appear until 1922 with the support of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

In the 20s Rupprecht went to the Bavarian school service. He taught at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich and from January 1, 1925 as a teacher at the humanistic grammar school in Aschaffenburg. Under the National Socialists he was the victim of political persecution: As part of the law to restore the civil service , he was retired on July 5, 1937 and was prohibited from publishing.

In May 1945 Rupprecht was commissioned by the American military government to rebuild the school system in Aschaffenburg. He returned to the town's high school as a senior teacher. In October 1946 he was appointed director of the humanistic grammar school in Munich-Pasing, now the Karlsgymnasium in Munich-Pasing . In addition to his school service, he taught at the University of Munich, which appointed him honorary professor of classical philology in 1950. In 1957 he was retired.

Karl Rupprecht wrote several study books and commented on text editions for schools and universities. Its introduction to Greek metric (first in 1924) remained in use for a long time. It was replaced in the 1960s by the introductions of Bruno Snell and Dietmar Korzeniewski , to whom his book "Karl Rupprecht in Gratitude" was dedicated. In addition, Rupprecht wrote several articles for the real encyclopedia of classical antiquity (RE).

At the grammar school, Rupprecht pointed out the work of the writer Paul Ernst to many students and thus gave impulses for research into his work.

Fonts (selection)

• Apostolis, Eudem and Suidas. Studies on the history of the Greek lexica. With an appendix: fragment of a Greek lexicon (Codex Monacensis gr. 263 fol. 416r – 420v) . Leipzig 1922 (Dissertation; Philologus Supplement-Volume 15, Issue 1)
• Introduction to the Greek Metric . Munich 1924. 2nd, new and significantly improved edition under the title: Greek Metrics. An introduction . Munich 1933. 3rd, completely revised edition under the title: Introduction to Greek Metrics . Munich 1950
• Greek sentence theory . Bamberg 1934
• Abstract of the Greek verse doctrine . Munich 1949

Editing

• Sebastian Röckl: Extensive review of the more difficult Greek verbs. Compiled for students . 11th edition, Bamberg 1952. 12th edition, Bamberg 1955. 13th edition, Bamberg 1956
• Friedrich Stählin : Introduction to the Greek tragedy . 2nd edition, Bamberg 1953. 3rd edition, Bamberg 1961

Text editions for school use

• Cicero / De imperio Cn. Pompei . Munich 1927
• Horace, satires: selection . Munich 1928
• Horace, epistles: selection . Munich 1929
• From the boy's wonder horn. New ways of old songs . Munich 1931
• Sophocles / King Oedipus . Bamberg 1935. 2nd edition, Bamberg 1941. 4th edition, Bamberg 1961
• Xenophon / Anabasis . 2nd edition, Bamberg 1951
• Herodotus / Historiae. The struggle of the Greeks for their freedom: As a supplement to the novella Kroisos and Solon . 4th edition, Bamberg 1952. 5th edition, Bamberg 1958
• Sophocles / Electra . Bamberg 1968

literature

• Fritz Ferckel: The Aschaffenburg high school 1932–1950 . Aschaffenburg 1951, pp. 48-50
• Who is who? 11th Edition (1970), p. 1088
• Dr. Karl Rupprecht in memoriam . In: Annual report of the Kronberg-Gymnasium Aschaffenburg 1970/71 , p. 13
• Karl Rupprecht . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 12th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-11-004470-6 , p. 3671 .
• Karl August Kutzbach: Prof. Dr. Karl Rupprecht 1889–1970 . In: Communications from the Paul Ernst Society 1977, pp. 26–29