Karl Sintenis

Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Sintenis (born May 15, 1806 in Zerbst ; † May 1, 1867 ibid) was a German classical philologist and teacher at the Zerbster Francisceum (director 1850-1867).

Life

Karl Sintenis, the son of Zerbst pastor August Friedrich Sintenis († 1841), initially received private lessons from his father and attended the Zerbst Francisceum from 1820 to 1824, where the philologist Gottfried Faehse was director at the time. His most influential teachers were the historians and philologists Karl Wilhelm Krüger (1796–1874) and Wilhelm Adolf Becker . After his graduation, Sintenis studied classical philology in Leipzig from 1824 to 1829 with Gottfried Hermann , where his fellow students included Adolf Emperius , Friedrich Franke , Moriz Haupt , Friedrich Ritschl and Hermann Sauppe . After graduating, Sintenis went back to the Zerbster Francisceum as a senior teacher, where he taught until the end of his life. During this time, he turned down several foreign vacancies. In 1837 he was appointed high school professor and in 1855 a school councilor. In 1850 the staff elected him director of the Francisceum, which he headed until his death.

In research, Sintenis has been concerned with the biographies of Plutarch since his student days , which he edited in two complete editions (1839-1846; 1852-1854) and partially edited for school use. He also treated the works of the historians Arrian and Dionysius of Halicarnassus in competition with his former fellow students .

literature

• Franz Kindscher :  Sintenis, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 405 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Sintenis  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Karl Sintenis in the catalog of the German National Library