Karl Steinhart (philologist)

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Karl Heinrich August Steinhart (born August 11, 1801 in Dobbrun in the Altmark , † August 9, 1872 in Kösen ) was a German classical philologist.

Life

Karl Steinhart was the son of pastor Heinrich Christoph Steinhart , who was active in Dobbrun and who had also made himself known as a regional historian of the Altmark and as a man of letters. Due to the early death of his father in 1810, Steinhart was dependent on patrons and sponsors during his training. He first attended school in Osterburg, then from Easter 1812 the grammar school in Helmstedt , where he established a lifelong friendship with August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben . From 1815-1819 he allowed the publisher Graefe in Berlin visiting the Berlinische Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster through high school. He then began studying theology and later philology at the University of Halle . In 1822 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . Back in Berlin, Steinhart went to the educational seminar for learned schools under August Boeckh and at the same time became an assistant teacher at his old school, the Gray Monastery. Around the time he returned to Berlin, in 1821, he became a member of the Corps Marchia Berlin .

A little later he was appointed adjunct at the Pforta State School at Easter 1824 and became a professor there in 1831. He stayed in Pforta until 1866 and taught Hebrew and Greek for 42 years. In 1848 he was one of the speakers at the People's Assembly in Kösen , a major political event in the form of a rally of the constitutional associations that took place in the Buchenhalle .

His students included Friedrich Nietzsche and Herbert Viktor Anton Pernice , who dedicated the play The Frogs of Aristophanes to him.

During this time, his scientific work and his teaching significantly shaped the Pforta State School. At Easter 1866 Steinhart left school and became a full professor of classical philology at the University of Halle. The focus of his scientific work was on Greek philosophy, especially Platos . For the Plato translation of his colleague Hieronymus Müller at the Domgymnasium Naumburg he wrote the introductions and finally, after the publication of the eight volumes, a biography of Plato, which was not published until 1873 after his death.

Steinhart was an honorary member of the Provincial Board of the Gustav Adolf Foundation . As a politician, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives in 1869 , to which he belonged until 1870.

In 1871 he fell seriously ill and therefore moved to the spa town of Kösen in May 1872, where he died on August 9th. Steinhart was buried in the cemetery in Schulpforte.

Works

  • De ratione, qua novi testamenti scriptores in explicando vetere testamento usi sint. Dissertation, Halle 1822.
  • About the dialectic of Plotinus. 1829.
  • Meletemata Plotiniana. Halle (Saale) 1840. Digitized
  • Hegel and his work , Naumburg 1841 digitized
  • Prolegomena ad Philebum. 1843.
  • Introductions to all of Plato's dialogues. 1850-1866.
  • The life of Plato. Post mortem 1873.

In addition, he published numerous small fonts in the form of printed lectures and contributions to magazines and compilations such as the "Ur" Pauly .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Steinhart  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Brandes:  Steinhart, Heinrich Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 710 f.
  2. ^ Heinrich Gerstenberg: To my friends. Letters from Hoffmann von Fallersleben , 1907, p. 220.
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 5, 179
  4. ↑ CFH Bittcher: Pförtner Album , 1854, p. 559.
  5. ↑ Johann Figl: Nietzsche and the Religions , Berlin 2007, p. 128.
  6. ↑ digitized version
  7. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 374 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
personal data
SURNAME Steinhart, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinhart, Karl Heinrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobbrun , Altmark
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1872
Place of death Kosen