Karl Wilhelm Göttling
Karl Wilhelm Göttling (born January 19, 1793 in Jena ; † January 20, 1869 there ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Karl Wilhelm Göttling was born in Jena as the son of the chemist Johann Friedrich August Göttling . He attended the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar and from 1811 studied philology at the University of Jena and in Berlin. In 1814 Göttling became a soldier in the corps of voluntary Weimar hunters and received his doctorate in Jena that same year. After the peace he continued his studies in Berlin under Friedrich August Wolf , August Boeckh and Philipp Buttmann .
In spring 1816 he found a job as a professor at the grammar school in Rudolstadt and in 1819 took over the directorate of the newly established grammar school in Neuwied , which he resigned in 1821. In the same year he went on a study trip to Paris and after his return in 1822 he became an associate professor of philology in Jena. In 1826 he became director of the philological seminary and university librarian. From 1829 Göttling worked as an honorary professor and assessor in the Philosophical Faculty with a seat and vote in the Senate, to which he was introduced on January 23, 1830.
From 1831 Göttling worked as a full professor for classical philology, from 1849 as professor for Greek and from 1852 as professor for eloquence. From 1842 he carried the title of Privy Councilor and from 1845 was director of the Archaeological Museum he founded in Jena. Several times he took over the Dean's office of the Philosophical Faculty and worked in the winter semesters of 1834, 1835, 1843, 1851 as Vice Rector of the Alma Mater .
His academic teaching, in which he was extremely stimulating due to his freshness and intimacy, was only interrupted by lengthy trips: 1828 to Italy and Sicily, 1840 to Greece, 1846 to Paris and London, and again in 1852 in the company of Ludwig Preller and Hermann Hettner Greece and Constantinople. In 1840 he became a member of the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica , today's German Archaeological Institute, in 1844 he was elected a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and in 1846 a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . Since 1852 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Göttling died on January 20, 1869 in Jena and was buried in the local Johannisfriedhof .
Act
Göttling is "one of the most important among the Jena philologists". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe asked him to linguistically review the complete edition of his works. Göttling's correspondence with Goethe from 1824 to 1831 was published by Kuno Fischer in 1880 . In addition to founding the Archaeological Museum in 1845, Göttling initiated the so-called "Rose Lectures" in the same year. This was a public lecture cycle that took place every winter in the academic rose room. The lectures from all subject areas were extremely popular, so that the rose lectures took place at the University of Jena for a total of 70 years.
Göttling's most important works include his editions of Aristotle 's Politica (Jena 1824) and Oeconomicus (1830) as well as those of Hesiod (Gotha 1831). In the field of Greek grammar, his most important publications are:
- Theodosii Alexandrini grammatica (Leipzig 1822)
- General teaching on the accent of the Greek language (Jena 1835)
- History of the Roman state constitution from the building of the city to the death of C. Caesar (Halle 1840)
- Thusnelda, Arminius' wife, and her son Thumelicus documented in simultaneous portraits (Jena 1843, 2nd edition 1855)
- Fifteen Roman documents (Halle 1845)
The Germanistic treatises on history in the Nibelungenlied (Rudolstadt 1814) and Nibelungen and Ghibellines (1817) have only historical value. His smaller works are for the most part combined in Collected Treatises from Classical Antiquity (Vol. 1, Halle 1851, Vol. 2, Munich 1863) and Opuscula academica (Leipzig 1869).
literature
- Conrad Bursian: Göttling, Karl Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 487-489.
- Kuno Fischer: Preface . In: Karl Wilhelm Göttling: Opuscula academica . Hirzel, Leipzig 1869.
- Carl Nipperdey : Memoria Goettlingii . Jena 1869.
- Gustav Lothholz : Karl Wilhelm Göttling . Stargarder program 1876.
- Volker Wahl : The photo album of the academic senate members from 1858. Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 1983, pp. 80–81.
- Wendt: Karl Wilhelm Göttling and his relationship with Goethe . In: Prussian year books , 1881.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Halm: Karl Wilhelm Göttling (obituary) . In: Meeting reports of the royal. bayer. Academy of Sciences in Munich . tape 1 , 1870, p. 388–391 ( online [PDF; accessed February 15, 2017]).
- ^ Karl Wilhelm Göttling . In: Volker Wahl: The photo album of the academic senate members from 1858 . Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 1983, p. 80.
First chair: Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand (1817–1851) | Carl Nipperdey (1852–1875) | Erwin Rohde (1876–1878) | Rudolf Hirzel (1886–1913) | Christian Jensen (1913–1917) | Otto Weinreich (1918) | Friedrich Zucker (1918–1961) | Ernst Günther Schmidt (1974 / 87–1994) | Jürgen Dummer (1994–2000) | Jürgen Hammerstaedt (2000–2004) | Rainer Thiel (since 2005)
Second chair: Karl Wilhelm Göttling (1831–1869) | Conrad Bursian (1869–1874) | Rudolf Schöll (1874–1876) | Alfred von Gutschmid (1876–1877) | Heinrich Gelzer (1878–1906) | Georg Goetz (1906–1923) | Johannes Stroux (1923–1924) | Karl Barwick (1925–1954) | Friedmar Kühnert (1961–1981) | Volker Riedel (1987-2008) | Meinolf Vielberg (since 1994)
Extraordinary office: Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1821–1825) | Hermann Weißenborn (1843–1849) | Georg Bippart (1850–1852) | Moritz Vermehren (1864–1893) | Ernst Diehl (1906–1911) | Albrecht von Blumenthal (1928–1938)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Göttling, Karl Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1869 |
| Place of death | Jena |