List of Classical Philologists at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

The list of classical philologists at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen includes representatives of this subject who have taught and researched at the University of Tübingen since the university was founded (1477). Classical Philology is part of the Philological Seminar (founded in 1838) within the Philosophical Faculty and is currently represented by three chairs (Greek Philology: Irmgard Männlein-Robert , Latin Philology I: Anja Wolkenhauer , Latin Philology II: Jürgen Leonhardt ).

history

The Greek and Latin languages ​​have been taught at the University of Tübingen since it was founded. In the early modern period, especially after the Reformation, famous scholars worked in Tübingen with Johannes Reuchlin , Jakob von Jonas and Joachim Camerarius . The many years of activity of Martin Crusius (1526–1607), who attracted students from many German and European countries, were of particular importance . Nevertheless, the study of Latin and Greek remained limited to the training of lawyers, doctors and theologians.

The effects of new humanism in Tübingen only became apparent relatively late. The first important Tübingen philologist in the 19th century was Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich Tafel (1787–1860), who was best known for his research on Pindar and his later commentators. Together with Ernst Christian Walz (1802-1857), the editor of the Rhetores Graeci , he was director of the Philological Seminary , which was founded in 1838 by royal resolution. The seminar (like other, long-standing institutions of this kind in Germany) should raise the quality of teacher training in Württemberg. The reform of the philological studies in Tübingen, however, proceeded only slowly even after the seminar was founded, because the theologians and philosophers continued to exercise their influence on the course (their auxiliary discipline). The later head of the seminary, Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (1820–1878) , complained in 1876 during his welcoming speech at the 31st philologists' meeting in Tübingen: “Of course, there is not much we can offer you. […] In Tübingen the advances made in philological science since Wolf, especially through G. Hermann and A. Böckh , and further through Lachmann and Ritschl , were only made very slowly and with heavy fighting. ”So up to now the important Tübingen philologists were not Students of the seminar, but largely self-taught.

A change became apparent in the last third of the 19th century: In addition to Teuffel, who had made great contributions as editor of the Real Encyclopedia of Classical Classical Studies (RE) and the history of Roman literature , the epigraphist and cultural historian Ernst von Herzog (1834 –1911) and the literary scholar and archaeologist Ludwig von Schwabe (1835–1908). Teuffel's successor was Erwin Rohde (1845–1898), a first-class philologist from the Ritschl School, who worked in Tübingen for eight years. His successor was Otto Crusius (1857-1918), who wrote his studies on Herondas and the Delphic hymns in Tübingen .

At the turn of the century there was a generation change in Tübingen: Otto Crusius was followed by Wilhelm Schmid (1859–1951), an expert on Greek literary history; Ernst von Herzog retired and was succeeded by Gotthold Gundermann (1856–1921), a Latinist and science historian. Both worked side by side for almost two decades, from 1903 regularly supported by an assistant (or extraordinary professor). Gundermann's successor was Otto Weinreich (1886–1972) from 1921 to 1954 , who mastered Latin poetry and ancient religious history equally. The Graecist chair was held successively by Johannes Mewaldt , Hans Herter and Friedrich Focke .

In the period after the Second World War , classical philology in Tübingen really flourished: in 1950, Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1900–1974) took the chair for Greek studies . The Latinist and Germanist Ernst Zinn (1910–1990), the religious scholar Hildebrecht Hommel (1899–1996), the rhetorician Walter Jens (1923–2013) and the musicologist Günther Wille (1925–1996) worked alongside him . The next generation included Hubert Cancik , Heinz Hofmann , Richard Kannicht and Ernst A. Schmidt . Schadewaldt's research focus, the philosophy of Plato , was confirmed even after his retirement through the appointment of his students Konrad Gaiser (1929–1988) and Thomas A. Szlezák (* 1940).

List of Classical Philologists

The first column shows the name of the person and their life data, the second column shows entry into the university, and the third column shows their departure. Column four names the highest position achieved at the University of Tübingen. At other universities, the corresponding lecturer may have made an even more extensive scientific career. The next column names special features, the career path or other information relating to the university or the seminar. In the last column there are pictures of the lecturers.

scientist	from	to	Functions	Remarks	image
Johannes Reuchlin (around 1500–1558)	1521	1522	Full professor	Professor of the Greek and Hebrew languages
Jakob von Jonas (around 1500–1558)	1526	1533	Full professor	Professor of the Hebrew and Greek languages
Joachim Camerarius the Elder (1500–1574)	1535	1541	Full professor	University reformer, read about Latin and Greek authors; moved to Leipzig
Melchior Volmar (1497-1560)	1541	1556	Full professor	Lawyer, read about Latin and Greek authors from 1541
Martin Crusius (1526-1607)	1559	1607	Full professor	Professor of Greek and Latin, from 1564 also of rhetoric; gave famous lectures on Greek literature (including Byzantine literature)
Nicodemus Frischlin (1547–1590)	1568	1582	Full professor	Professor of Poetry and History; moved to Laibach, later to Strasbourg
Christoph Kaldenbach (1613–1698)	1656	1698	Full professor	Professor of rhetoric and poetry, poet philologist
Johann Wolfgang Jäger (1647–1720)	1681	1684	Full professor	Professor of the Greek language; moved to the theological institute as a teacher
Johann Osiander (1657-1724)	1688	1688	Full professor	Professorship in Greek language and philosophy; later council of war or Ephorus of the theological pen
Johann Konrad Klemm (1688–1754)	1717	1725	Full professor	Professor of Philosophy, Greek and Oriental Languages; switched to the theological faculty
Immanuel Hoffmann (1710–1772)	1757	1772	Full professor	Professor of the Greek language and Ephorus of the theological pen
Jeremias David Reuss (1750-1837)	1768	1782	Private lecturer	Private lecturer in philology and curator at the university library; written Plato editions and catalogs of the university library; moved to Göttingen
David Christoph Seybold (1747–1804)	1796	1804	Full professor	Professor of "Classical Literature"
Karl Philipp Conz (1762-1827)	1804	1827	Full professor	Professor of “classical literature”, poet philologist
Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich panel (1787–1860)	1815	1846	Full professor	Repetent at the pen, extraordinary professor in 1818, full professor in 1827, quiesced in 1846; first modern researcher of Middle Greek literature in Germany, came from studies of Pindar and his scholias to Byzantine writing
Ernst Christian von Walz (1802-1857)	1830	1857	Full professor	Repetent, 1832 associate professor, 1834 titular full professor, 1840 with the salary of a full professor; Specialist in Greek rhetoric, editor of the Rhetores Graeci (9 volumes, 1832–1836), since 1834 head of the coin and antiquities cabinet with its own budget; From 1831 he also gave lectures on art history; 1845–1847 co-editor of the real encyclopedia of classical antiquity
Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (1820–1878)	1845	1878	Full professor	Privatdozent, Associate Professor in 1849, Full Professor in 1857; Specialist in Roman literature, especially Horace; Editor of the Real Encyclopedia of Classical Classical Antiquities (1845–1852, 1860–1866) and an important literary history (for the first time 1868–1870)
Albert Schwegler (1819–1857)	1843	1857	Associate professor	Privatdozent of Philosophy and Philology, 1848 Associate Professor for “Roman Literature and Antiquities”; Specialist in ancient ecclesiastical and secular history, authored editions of the homilies of Clemens of Alexandria and ecclesiastical history of Eusebius (1852) as well as a Roman history (3 volumes, 1853–1858)
August Rossbach (1823–1898)	1852	1856	Associate professor	Private lecturer, associate professor in 1855; Specialist in Roman poetry ( Catullus , Tibullus ), Roman cultural history and Greek metrics; moved to Breslau
Rudolf Westphal (1826-1892)	1852	1862	Associate professor	Private lecturer, associate professor in 1857; Specialist in comparative linguistics, Greek metrics and music history; later private scholar (at times high school teacher in Livonia and Moscow)
Karl Hirzel (1808–1874)	1857	1874	Full professor	Successor to Walz, rector of the Tübingen grammar school and associate professor in 1864; Practitioner, school and administrative organizer
Karl Ludwig von Roth (1790–1868)	1859	1867	Private lecturer	previously a grammar school teacher in Nuremberg and senior teacher in Stuttgart, read about Greek and Roman rhetoric as well as Latin satirists, Tacitus, Quintilian and grammar school pedagogy
Conrad Bursian (1830-1883)	1861	1864	Private lecturer	Specialist in Greek geography and topography, ancient art history, Christian literature and the history of science; moved to Zurich, later to Jena and Munich
Ernst von Herzog (1834–1911)	1862	1902	Full professor	Privatdozent, 1867 associate professor of classical philology and archeology, 1869 co-director of the philological seminar, 1874 director and full professor; held lectures on ancient art history, epigraphy , Christian archeology, linguistics, and later on Greek and Roman history
August Preuner (1832–1906)	1864	1866	Private lecturer	Archaeologist and philologist; moved to the University of Greifswald
Ludwig von Schwabe (1835–1908)	1872	1908	Full professor	Professor of Classical Philology and Archeology; Specialist in ancient art archeology, numismatics and Roman literature; edited Teuffel's history of Roman literature (4th edition 1881–1882, 5th edition 1890)
Hans Flach (1845–1895)	1874	1885	Associate professor	Privatdozent, Associate Professor in 1877; Specialist in Greek epic ( Hesiod ), drama and antiquarian literature; wrote several pamphlets on the academic situation in Tübingen, went to Hamburg in 1885 as a newspaper editor
Erwin Rohde (1845–1898)	1878	1886	Full professor	Successor to Teuffels; Specialist in Greek literary, cultural and religious history; moved to Leipzig, later to Heidelberg
Otto Crusius (1857-1918)	1886	1898	Full professor	Successor to Rohdes; Specialist in Greek poetry and paremiography, editor of the Philologus ; moved to Heidelberg, later to Munich
Wilhelm Schmid (1859–1951)	1887	1926	Full professor	Privatdozent, Associate Professor in 1893, Full Professor in 1898, retired in 1926; Specialist in Greek rhetoric and style (especially from the imperial era), worked with Otto Stählin on the history of Greek literature by Wilhelm von Christ (5th and 6th edition in several volumes, 1911–1948)
Friedrich Cauer (1863-1932)	1890	1893	Private lecturer	Specialist in ancient politics and politics; moved to Berlin as a high school teacher
Rudolf Herzog (1871–1953)	1899	1909	Associate professor	Ernst von Herzog's son; Private lecturer, associate professor in 1903; Epigrapher, led excavations on Kos; moved to Basel, later to Giessen
Gotthold Gundermann (1856–1921)	1902	1921	Full professor	Successor to Ernst von Herzogs; Specialist in Greek specialist writers (medical history, military history) and reception of ancient literature in the Middle Ages
Adolf von Mess (1875-1916)	1909	1916	Associate professor	Successor to Rudolf Herzog; wrote a biography of Caesar (1913); died early
Otto Weinreich (1886–1972)	1916 1921	1918 1954	Full professor	Successor to Mess', 1918–1921 full professor in Jena and Heidelberg, then as successor to Gundermann in Tübingen; Religious scholar and specialist in Roman poetry (Catullus, Martial ) and the Greek Roman
Friedrich Zucker (1881–1973)	1918	1918	Associate professor	Successor to Weinreich, papyrologist; moved to Jena as full professor
Friedrich Pfister (1883–1967)	1918	1924	Associate professor	Successor to Zucker; Specialist in ancient religious history and Christian literature; moved to Würzburg
Friedrich Focke (1890–1970)	1925	1946	Full professor	Successor to Pfister, personal professor in 1933, regular professor in 1939 (successor to Herter); Specialist in Greek epic ( Odyssey ), historiography ( Herodotus ), rhetoric ( Demosthenes ) and Hellenistic Judaism; 1935–1937 Rector, removal from office in 1946, retirement in 1949, retirement in 1952
Johannes Mewaldt (1880–1964)	1927	1931	Full professor	Successor to Schmid; Specialist in ancient medical history and philosophy ( Lucretius ); moved to Vienna
Hans Herter (1899–1984)	1932	1938	Full professor	Successor to Mewaldt (associate professor until 1933); Specialist in Greek philosophy ( Plato ), historiography ( Thucydides ) and ancient religious history; moved to Bonn
Wilhelm Nestle (1865-1959)	1932	1935	Honorary professor	Specialist in Greek religion and philosophy ( From Myth to Logos , 1940; Greek Intellectual History , 1944)
Walter Nestle (1902–1945)	1939	1942	Private lecturer	Son of Wilhelm Nestle, Aeschylus researcher; moved to Freiburg, later Frankfurt am Main
Walter F. Otto (1874–1958)	1946	1958	Full professor	Visiting professor, emeritus from 1950; Specialist in Greek religion and mythology
Walter Jens (1923-2013)	1949	1963	extraordinary professor	Privatdozent, 1956 apl. Prof .; Specialist in ancient rhetoric and historiography, writer; from 1963 first professor for general rhetoric
Jürgen Kroymann (1911–1980)	1949	1976	professor	Lecturer, 1954/1955 Professor in Greifswald, 1958 apl. Prof., 1969 Scientific Councilor and Professor; Specialist in ancient historiography
Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1900–1974)	1950	1972	Full professor	Professor of Classical Philology (Greek Studies) and the Persistence of Antiquity, retired in 1968; wrote fundamental studies on the Greek epic poem, tragedy ( Sophocles ) and their survival in the literature of late antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times
Hildebrecht Hommel (1899–1996)	1955	1964	Full professor	Successor to Weinreich; Ancient religion specialist
Ernst Zinn (1910–1990)	1956	1978	Full professor	Professor of Classical Philology and Comparative Literature; Specialist in ancient Latin poetry ( Horace , Ovid ) and modern literature ( Rainer Maria Rilke , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Rudolf Borchardt )
Hellmut Flashar (* 1929)	1959	1965	Private lecturer	Assistant, habilitation in 1961; Specialist in Greek philosophy ( Plato , Aristotle ), tragedy, the history of medicine and the history of science; moved to Bochum, later to Munich
Theofanis Kakridis (* 1933)	1959	1964	Editor	gave new and ancient Greek language courses; moved to the University of Ioannina
Eberhard Heck (* 1937)	1963	2003	professor	Assistant, habilitation in 1971 and adjunct professor, 1976 senior assistant, 1980 C2 professor for Latin philology; Specialist in cicero and lactance
Konrad Müller (1920–2015)	1963	1964	Full professor	Specialist in late, middle and neo-Latin literature; moved to Freiburg (Switzerland)
Rüdiger Vischer (1936-2017)	1963	1998	academic advice	Specialist in Latin semantics and style, author of Latin vocabulary for beginners and advanced learners
Carl Joachim Classen (1928–2013)	1964	1965	Chair representative	represented Müller's chair; Specialist in Greek philosophy and ancient rhetoric; moved to Würzburg, later Berlin (TU) and Göttingen
Joachim Dingel (* 1938)	1965	1992	professor	Assistant, 1972 private lecturer, 1991 C2 professor; Specialist in Roman poetry and literary theory ( Seneca , Quintilian ); moved to Hamburg
Hartmut Erbse (1915-2004)	1965	1968	Full professor	Successor to Müller; Specialist in Greek poetry, lexicography and scholia; moved to Bonn
Egidius Schmalzriedt (1935-2003)	1965	1994	professor	Jens-Schüler, habilitated in 1970 and apl. Prof., 1975 C3 Professor for Ancient Philosophy and General Rhetoric; Specialist in Greek literature
Ernst-Richard Schwinge (* 1934)	1965	1976	extraordinary professor	Assistant, qualified as a professor in 1967 and university lecturer, apl. Prof. 1973; Specialist in Greek tragedy and its afterlife in modern times; moved to Kiel
Günther Wille (1925–1996)	1965	1991	Full professor	Successor to Hommel; Specialist in Roman historiography ( Livius , Tacitus ) and music
Heinz Happ (1931-2014)	1966	1996	professor	Privatdozent, 1973 associate professor, 1979 C2 professor; Specialist in late Latin poetry, Latin grammar and language didactics
Konrad Gaiser (1929–1988)	1968	1988	Full professor	Successor of Schadewaldt, specialist in Greek philosophy ( Plato ; Plato's unwritten teaching )
Richard Kannicht (1931-2020)	1969	1997	Full professor	Specialist in Greek poetry (especially drama), literary theory and metrics
Hermann Steinthal (1925-2014)	1972	1989	Honorary professor	Head of the Uhland grammar school, honorary professor for didactics of ancient languages
Hubert Cancik (* 1937)	1974	2003	Full professor	Professor of Classical Philology and the History of Ancient Religions; Specialist in the cultural and intellectual history of Europe and the Middle East, co-editor of the New Pauly (1996–2012) and of the Handbook of Basic Concepts for Religious Studies (1988–2000)
Ernst A. Schmidt (* 1937)	1979	2002	Full professor	Successor to tin; Specialist in Greek philosophy ( Plato ), Roman poetry ( Catullus , Augustan poetry) and Augustine
Lutz Käppel (* 1960)	1990	1998	Private lecturer	Assistant, habilitation in 1997; Specialist in Greek tragedy, poetry, mathematics, mythology and the history of science; moved to Kiel
Helmut Krasser (* 1959)	1990	1999	Senior assistant	Assistant, qualified as a professor in 1996 and senior assistant; Specialist in Roman literature ( Cicero , Catullus , Horace , Statius , Gellius ); moved to Giessen
Thomas A. Szlezák (* 1940)	1990	2006	Full professor	Successor to Gaiser; Specialist in Greek Philosophy ( Plato )
Karl-Heinz Stanzel (* 1958)	1992		extraordinary professor	Academic Council, habilitation in 1994, Academic Senior Councilor and associate professor in 2000; Specialist in Greek philosophy ( Plato ) and bucolic ( Theocritus )
Heinz Hofmann (* 1944)	1993	2009	Full professor	Successor of will; Specialist in Greek and Roman poetry and literary history
Jürgen Leonhardt (* 1957)	2004		Full professor	Successor to Cancik; Specialist in classical Latin literature and its history
Robert Bees (* 1962)	2004		Private lecturer	Specialist in Greek Drama, Historiography and Philosophy ( Stoa )
Irmgard Männlein-Robert (* 1970)	2006		Ordinaria	Successor to Szlezák; Specialist in Greek literature and literary theory of the imperial era
Anja Wolkenhauer (* 1967)	2010		Ordinaria	Successor to Hofmann; Specialist in ancient Latin literature and humanism
Robert Kirstein (* 1967)	2011		Substitute professor	Substitute professor for Jürgen Leonhardt; Specialist in Greek literature of Hellenism, small poetry, reception and the history of science

literature

• Richard Kannicht (Ed.): 1838–1988: 150 years of the Philological Seminar at the University of Tübingen . Tübingen 1990 ( Tübingen University Speeches 37)

Web links

• Philological Institute of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Negotiations of the thirty-first meeting of German philologists and schoolmen in Tübingen from September 25 to September 28, 1876 . Leipzig 1877, p. 1f.