Kurt Latte
Kurt Latte (born March 9, 1891 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † June 18, 1964 in Tutzing ) was a German classical philologist.
Life
Kurt Latte studied classical philology at the Albertus University in Königsberg , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . With Ludwig Deubner , he wrote his doctoral thesis on cultic dances in ancient Greece. In 1913 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. He then began editing the dictionary of Hesychios of Alexandria . After taking part in the First World War, Latte was an assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Münster from 1920-1923 . There he completed his habilitation in 1920 with a thesis on Greek and customary and sacred law in ancient Rome . During this time he introduced the concept of the ethics of success in the context of ancient ethics. As the successor to Johannes Mewaldt , he took up the chair at the Prussian University of Greifswald in 1923 . In 1926 he moved to the University of Basel as the successor to Günther Jachmann . At the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen he followed Eduard Fraenkel as full professor in 1931 . Due to his classification as a Jew by the National Socialists, he was forced to retire on April 1, 1936. In 1937 Latte returned to Germany from a visiting professorship at the University of Chicago . He survived the National Socialist rule in Hamburg (supported by Bruno Snell ), Düsseldorf (Am Ellerforst 24) and Osterode am Harz , where his former Greifswald colleague Konrat Ziegler had invited him, who hid him temporarily. In 1945 he was able to take over his Göttingen chair again. At the same time he prevented Ziegler's appointment. After his retirement in 1957 he moved to Tutzing and held seminars on Greek law at the University of Munich until his death. Scientifically, Latte dealt primarily with the publication of the Hesych and the ancient history of religion.
Honors
- Corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (1947)
- Corresponding member of the British Academy (1948)
- President and Vice President of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (1949–1956)
- Chairman of the Mommsen Society
- Honorary doctorate from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (1951)
Fonts
- Holy right. Research on the history of sacred legal forms in Greece . Mohr, Tübingen 1920; Reprint: Scientia, Aalen 1964.
- Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon , Vol. 1 and 2, Munksgaard, Hauniae (= Copenhagen) 1953 and 1966.
- as a new editor: Roman religious history . ( Handbook of Classical Studies , Section 5: History of Philosophy, History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, History of Religion , Part 4), Beck, Munich 1960, reprint 1976, ISBN 3-406-01374-0 .
- Small writings on religion, law, literature and language of the Greeks and Romans . Beck, Munich 1968, DNB 457365242 .
- Carl Joachim Classen (Ed.): Kurt Latte: Opuscula inedita. Together with lectures and reports from a conference on the fortieth anniversary of Kurt Latte's death (= contributions to antiquity , volume 219). Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-77831-7 .
Latte's father
Latte's father was the Königsberg doctor Isaak Latte, who had become a member of the Corps Masovia as a medical student and retired as an old man. In 1876 it was of historical importance for the development of the corps and the Königsberg Senior Citizens' Convention .
literature
- Carl Joachim Classen: Kurt Latte. Professor of Classical Philology 1931–1935; 1945–1957 , in: Classical Classical Studies at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. A lecture series on their history . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989 (Göttinger Universitätsschriften, Series A, Schriften, 14) pp. 197–233, ISBN 3-525-35845-8 (with photo).
- Heinrich Dörrie : Latte, Kurt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 685 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wolfgang Kunkel : In memoriam Kurt Latte . Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Studies Department 82 (1965), pp. 486-490.
- Rudolf Stark : Kurt Latte † . In: Gnomon , Volume 37 (1965), pp. 215-219.
- Cornelia Wegeler: "... we say from the international scholarly republic". Classical Studies and National Socialism. The Göttingen Institute for Classical Studies 1921–1962 . Böhlau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-05212-9 , esp. Pp. 112-114, 172-180, 263-267.
- Hans Gärtner : “To defy all violence!” Unpublished letters from Kurt Latte from 1943–1946 . Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies , Vol. 5 (2002), pp. 185–219 ( PDF ).
- Latte, Kurt . In: Lexicon of Greifswalder University Lecturers 1775 to 2006 . Vol. 3: Lexicon of Greifswald University Lecturers 1907 to 1932 . Bock, Bad Honnef 2004, ISBN 3-87066-931-4 , pp. 132-133.
- Dietmar Schmitz: Latte, Kurt. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 704 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Latte in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: De saltationibus Graecorum capita quinque .
- ↑ Habilitation thesis: Holy Law: Investigations on the history of sacred legal forms in Greece .
- ↑ Cornelia Wegeler: "... we say from the international scholarly republic". Classical Studies and National Socialism. The Göttingen Institute for Classical Studies 1921–1962 . Böhlau, Vienna 1996, p. 174.
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 26, 2020 .
First chair: Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt (1817–1830) | Georg Ludwig Walch (1830–1838) | Rudolf Heinrich Klausen (1838–1840) | Otto Jahn (1842–1847) | Ludwig von Urlichs (1847–1855) | Martin Hertz (1855-1862) | Hermann Usener (1863–1866) | Franz Bücheler (1866–1870) | Wilhelm Studemund (1870–1872) | Adolph Kießling (1872–1889) | Friedrich Marx (1889-1893) | Eduard Norden (1893–1899) | Wilhelm Kroll (1899–1906) | Carl Hosius (1906–1913) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1913–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922) | Kurt Latte (1923–1926) | Franz Dornseiff (1926–1948) | Jürgen Kroymann (1954–1955) | Dietrich Ebener (1957–1967) | Martin Hose (1994–1997) | Michael Weißenberger (1999-2013)
Second chair: Georg Friedrich Schömann (1827–1879) | Rudolf Schöll (1873–1874) | Eduard Hiller (1874–1876) | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1876–1883) | Georg Kaibel (1883–1886) | Ernst Maass (1886–1895) | Alfred Gercke (1896–1909) | Hermann Schöne (1909–1916) | Johannes Mewaldt (1916–1923) | Konrat Ziegler (1923–1933) | Franz Egermann (1934–1942) | Gregor Vogt-Spira (1994-2006)
Third chair (associate professor, full professor from 1863–1898): Franz Susemihl (1856–1898) | Alfred Körte (1899–1903) | Ludwig Radermacher (1903–1906) | Ernst Bickel (1906–1909) | Johannes Mewaldt (1909–1914) | Georg Thiele (1914–1917) | Kurt Witte (1917–1920) | August Schmekel (1921–1927)
First chair: Emanuel Linder (1819–1843) | Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger (1832–1861) | Otto Ribbeck (1861–1862) | Adolph Kießling (1862–1869) | Friedrich Nietzsche (1869–1879) | Jacob Wackernagel (1879–1902) | Ferdinand Sommer (1902–1909) | Rudolf Herzog (1909–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1914–1915) | Peter von der Mühll (1917–1952) | Bernhard Wyss (1952–1976) | Joachim Latacz (1981-2002) | Anton Bierl (since 2002).
Second chair: Franz Dorotheus Gerlach (1819–1875) | Jacob Achilles Mähly (1875–1890) | Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (1890–1896) | Erich Bethe (1897–1903) | Alfred Körte (1903–1906) | Hermann Schöne (1906–1909) | Friedrich Münzer (1909–1912) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1912–1913) | Walter F. Otto (1913–1914) | Johannes Stroux (1914–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922–1925) | Kurt Latte (1925–1931) | Harald Fuchs (1932–1970) | Josef Delz (1970–1987) | Fritz Graf (1987–1999) | Jerzy Styka (2000-2001) | Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (since 2002).
Third chair: Franz Misteli (1879–1898) | Max Niedermann (1911–1925) | Jacob Wackernagel (1915–1936) | Albert Debrunner (1940–1949) | Karl Meuli (1942–1961) | Felix Heinimann (1966–1980).
First chair: Johann Matthias Gesner (1734–1761) | Christian Gottlob Heyne (1763–1812) | Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich (1814–1835) | Karl Friedrich Hermann (1842–1856) | Ernst Curtius (1856–1868) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1869–1877) | Karl Dilthey (1877–1887) | Wilhelm Meyer (1887–1889) | Friedrich Leo (1889–1914) | Richard Reitzenstein (1914–1928) | Eduard Fraenkel (1928–1931) | Kurt Latte (1931-1935) | Hans Drexler (1940–1945) | Kurt Latte (1946–1957) | Karl Deichgräber (1957–1969) | Klaus Nickau (1970-2000) | Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (since 2001).
Second chair: Georg Ludolf Dissen (1813–1837) | Ernst von Leutsch (1837–1883) | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1883–1897) | Georg Kaibel (1897–1901) | Eduard Schwartz (1902–1909) | Paul Wendland (1909–1915) | Max Pohlenz (1916–1937) | Karl Deichgräber (1938–1946) | Walter F. Otto (1946–1948) | Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich (1948–1972) | Carl Joachim Classen (1973–1993) | Siegmar Döpp (1995-2007) | Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser (since 2008).
Third chair: Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich (1808–1816) | Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1816–1819) | Karl Otfried Müller (1819–1840) | Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (1842–1856) | Hermann Sauppe (1856-1893) | Wilhelm Meyer (1895–1917) | Günther Jachmann (1917–1922) | Wilhelm Baehrens (1922–1929) | ( Ludolf Malten ) (1945–1958) | Will Richter (1959–1975) | Ulrich Schindel (1976-2003) | Peter Kuhlmann (since 2004).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Latte, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1964 |
| Place of death | Tutzing |