Hermann Langerbeck

Hermann Karl Ernst Langerbeck (born October 10, 1908 in Bremen , † February 16, 1964 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Hermann Langerbeck studied classical philology at the Berlin University , where Werner Jaeger became his most influential teacher. Langerbeck received inspiration from him for his lifelong research area, Greek philosophy. It was in 1934 with the dissertation ΔΟΣΙΣ ΕΠΙΡΥΣΜΙΗ: studies on Democritus ethics and epistemology Ph.D. , the 1935 series Jaegers New Philological studies appeared.

After completing his doctorate, Langerbeck worked as an assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and completed his habilitation in 1939 in Göttingen . When the Second World War broke out , he was obliged to do military service and had to interrupt his scientific career. He could not take up a lectureship at Königsberg University , which he was offered in 1941.

After his return from the war, Langerbeck completed his habilitation at the University of Frankfurt, where he was appointed extraordinary professor in 1951 and associate professor in 1960. He died on February 16, 1964 at the age of 55 as a result of a war injury. Three years later, the anthology Essays on Gnosis (Göttingen 1967) appeared from his estate and was edited by the Göttingen church historian Hermann Dörries .

In his research on Greek philosophy, Langerbeck endeavored to show the influence of Platonic philosophy on the thinking of the Greeks and thus to track down interpolations in the teachings of the pre-Socratics . He also examined Platonic influences on the church fathers and participated in the complete edition of the writings of Gregory of Nyssa , which his teacher Werner Jaeger operated.

literature

• Harald Patzer : Hermann Langerbeck † . In: Gnomon , Vol. 36 (1964), pp. 844-845.