Kurt Orinsky

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Kurt Orinsky (born June 2, 1896 in Gnesen , † February 25, 1990 in Osnabrück ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher .

After attending grammar school in Gnesen, Kurt Orinsky studied from 1914 first in Königsberg , then from 1915 in Breslau . In 1920 he received his doctorate in Breslau with Richard Foerster . In 1921 he passed the exam for the higher teaching post. From 1922 he taught in Breslau, in 1929 he became a teacher at the grammar school in Waldenburg , and in 1942 deputy head of the grammar school in Andreashütte . After the war he lived temporarily (from 1949) in Hameln and was later a teacher at the Ratsgymnasium in Osnabrück .

In his dissertation Orinsky dealt with the practice speeches of late antique rhetoric schools ( progymnasmata ), which have been handed down under the names of Nikolaus von Myra and Lebanios . He came to the conclusion that the progymnasmata of Libanios did not come from him; he also accepted Nikolaus von Myra as an author. The work was only printed in a two-page excerpt and four complete copies and was only known to the broader scientific public through a detailed review. He published articles in Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher's Detailed Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology and in the Realencyclopadie of Classical Antiquity . From 1964 to 1969 he wrote numerous reviews for the communications of the German Association of Classical Philology, Landesverband Niedersachsen .

Publications (selection)

  • De Nicolai Myrensis et Libanii quae feruntur progymnasmatis . Dissertation Breslau 1920 (printed only a two-page excerpt).
  • The word order in Gaius . In: Glotta 12, 1922, pp. 83-100.
  • Ktesibios. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 2, Stuttgart 1922, Sp. 2074-2076.
  • Review of F. Eckstein In: Outline of Greek Philosophy . In: Gymnasium 65, 1958, pp. 478–479

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from February 27, 1990
  2. ↑ Ronald F. Hock, Edward N. O'Neil: The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: classroom exercises. Brill, Leiden 2002, ISBN 90-04-12656-2 , Vol. 2, pp. 201-202.
  3. ↑ Eberhard Richtersteig, Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 41, 1921, pp. 697–701.
  4. ↑ Table of Contents

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personal data
SURNAME Orinsky, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Gniezno
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1990
Place of death Osnabrück