Karl Strecker (philologist)

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Karl Strecker

Karl Strecker (born September 4, 1861 in Fritzow , Cammin district , † November 15, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German Middle Latin philologist .

life and work

Karl Strecker came from a pastor family that had lived in Szczecin around 1600 . He was first taught by his father, who was a pastor in Fritzow. From 1875 he attended the Bugenhagen high school in Treptow an der Rega . He then studied law at the University of Strasbourg and completed his military service as a one-year volunteer. In Berlin (1881) and Greifswald (1882) he studied Classical and Germanic Philology. Strecker received his doctorate in 1884 in Greifswald with Adolph Kießling and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff with a thesis on the fragments of Attic comedy handed down from Lycophron , Euphron and Eratosthenes . In 1885, Strecker passed the state examination in Greek, Latin and German; he then worked at grammar schools in Greifswald (1886–1887), Dortmund (1887–1906) and Berlin (1906–1909).

In addition to his school activities, after his Graecist doctorate, Strecker increasingly occupied himself with Latin poetry of the Middle Ages; In 1889/89 he submitted his first text-critical work on Waltharius and in 1906 on Hrotsvit . In March 1906 he took over a teaching position for Middle Latin Philology in Berlin, succeeding Paul von Winterfeld ; from 1909 he taught the subject there, first as an associate professor, and from 1923 as a full professor. During the First World War he was captain of the Landwehr from April 1915 ; he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class .

From 1907 Strecker worked on the edition series of the "Poetae Latini Medii Aevi" ("Latin poets of the Middle Ages") at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), of which he was a permanent collaborator from 1909. In 1912 he succeeded Ludwig Traube as a member of the central management of the MGH and took over the management of the “Antiquitates” department, which also included the Poetae series, which he was responsible for until 1935. Strecker retired in 1929. Important academic students of Strecker were Karl Fiehn , Norbert Fickermann , Edwin Habel , Karl Langosch , Hans Walther and Goswin Frenken . The Berlin chair for Middle Latin Philology was canceled after Strecker's retirement and was not re-established until 1970.

Gravestone on the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf

Especially his work on Middle Latin poetry made Strecker a pioneer in his field. His Introduction to Middle Latin (1928) became an international standard work and was reprinted numerous times as well as English and French translations. The MGH published three edition volumes of the Poetae series with poems from the Merovingian, Carolingian and Ottonian times between 1914 and 1939 under his leadership. A fourth volume was added posthumously in 1951, which also contains Strecker's critical edition of the Waltharius epic, which, after being bombed out in Berlin towards the end of the war in 1945, after extensive preparatory work, he was unable to complete it during his lifetime. Furthermore, Strecker presented critical editions of the Carmina Cantabrigiensia , the Tegernsee letter collection , the Ecbasis captivi and on Walter von Châtillon , some of which are still valid today .

From 1928 Strecker was a corresponding member of the Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi , from 1938 also of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He was also awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Albrecht 1st Class with Swords and Crown . Strecker was honored with two festschrifts.

His grave is on the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Fonts (selection)

Source editions

  • The Tegernsee letter collection (Froumund). Codex epistolarum Tegernseensium (Froumund) ( MGH Epistolae selectae, Volume 3). Berlin 1925.
  • The poems of Walter von Châtillon. Volume 1: The songs of Walters von Châtillon in the manuscript 351 of St. Omer. Berlin 1925
  • The Cambridge songs (Carmina Cantabrigiensia) (MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi, volume [40]). Berlin 1926.
  • Ecbasis cuiusdam captivi per tropologiam (MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi, volume [24]), Hanover 1935.

Monographs

  • De Lycophrone, Euphronio, Eratosthene comicorum interpretibus. Altenburg 1884 [Diss. Greifswald 1884].
  • Introduction to Middle Latin. Berlin 1928; 3rd expanded edition, Berlin 1939 (numerous reprints).
    • French edition: Introduction à l'étude du latin médiéval. Translated by Paul van de Woestijne (Publications romanes et françaises, Volume 26). Gand 1933; 3rd revised and expanded edition, Lille 1948. (numerous reprints)
    • English edition: Introduction to medieval Latin . Translated and revised by Robert B. Palmer. Berlin 1957; 2nd improved edition, Berlin 1963 (numerous reprints).

Essays

  • Ekkehard and Virgil. In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature , Volume 42, 1898, pp. 339–365.
  • To the Carolingian rhythms. In: New Archive of the Society for Older German History , Volume 34, 1909, pp. 599–652.
  • The German homeland of Ruodlieb. In: New year books for classical antiquity, history and German literature , Volume 47, 1921, pp. 289–304.
  • Studies on the Carolingian poets. In: New Archive of the Society for Older German History , Volume 43, 1922, pp. 477-511; ibid. Volume 44, 1922, pp. 209-251; ibid. Volume 45, 1924, pp. 14-31.
  • Walter von Châtillon and his school. In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature , Volume 64, 1927, pp. 97–125 and pp. 161–189.

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ De Lycophrone, Euphronio, Eratosthene comicorum interpretibus. Greifswald 1884.
  2. ↑ So the NDB article by Frank-Rutger Hausmann. The year 1931 is given in Norbert Fickermann's obituary in the German Archives.
  3. ^ Poetae Latini aevi Carolini , Volume 4, Part 2: Rhythmi aevi Merovingici et Carolini , ed. by Karl Strecker (MGH Poetae, Volume 4.2), 1914; Poetae Latini aevi Carolini , Volume 4 Part 3: Supplementa , ed. by Karl Strecker (MGH Poetae, Volume 4.3), 1923; The Ottonian Time , parts 1–2, ed. by Karl Strecker with the collaboration of Norbert Fickermann (MGH Poetae, Volume 5.1 / 5.2), 1937/1939.
  4. ↑ Supplements to the Poetae aevi Carolini , Part 1, ed. by Karl Strecker † with the support of Otto Schumann, Weimar 1951.
  5. ↑ Norbert Fickermann: Obituary Karl Strecker. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages , Volume 8, 1951, pp. 266–267, here p. 267.
  6. ^ Karl Strecker: The Waltharius writer. In: German Archive for the History of the Middle Ages , Volume 4, 1940/1941, pp. 355–381; ders .: Preliminary remarks on the edition of Waltharius. In: German Archive for the History of the Middle Ages , Volume 5, 1941/1942, pp. 23–54.
personal data
SURNAME Strecker, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Fritzow , Cammin district
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1945
Place of death Berlin