Karl Schenkl
Karl Schenkl (born December 11, 1827 in Brno , † September 20, 1900 in Graz ) was an Austrian classical philologist .
life and work
Schenkl studied classical philology and law at the University of Vienna from 1845 to 1849 . After the state examination he was a teacher at several grammar schools from 1850 before he was appointed full professor of classical philology in Innsbruck in 1858. There he set up the Philological Institute from 1860. In 1863 he moved to Graz , where in the same year he achieved the establishment of a philological seminar and was elected a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna , in 1868 a full member. Schenkl was rector of the University of Graz from 1869–70. In 1870 he became a member of the grammar school reform commission. In 1875 he followed a call to the University of Vienna (as successor to Johannes Vahlen ), where he worked until his retirement in 1899.
In 1885, Schenkl was a co-founder and most recently president of the "Eranos Vindobonensis" association and editor of several specialist journals. In 1879 he founded the Vienna Studies with Wilhelm von Hartel and was editor of the series Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum . Schenkl dealt with the edition of Latin Church Fathers as part of the Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum (CSEL) project. Schenkl also published important works for Austrian school lessons. His “Greek Elementary Book” (1852) was used in Austrian schools for 70 years.
Karl Schenkl was the father of the philologist Heinrich Schenkl .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schenkl, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 29th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1875, pp. 202–204 ( digitized version ).
- Alois Kernbauer: Karl Schenkl (1863 / 64–1875). In: Classical Philology at the University of Graz from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. With contributions by Herbert H. Egglmaier, Walter Höflechner, Alois Kernbauer, Walter Primig, Peter G. Tropper, Franz-Anton Wallisch . In: Contributions and materials on the history of science in Austria . Ed. Walter Höflechner (= publications from the archive of the University of Graz 11), Graz 1981, 38–52.
- Kurt Smolak : Schenkl Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 83 f. (Direct links on p. 83 , p. 84 ).
- Schenkl, Karl , in: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Volume 8, p. 607.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Schenkl 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 | Schenkl, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th September 1900 |
| Place of death | Graz |