List of Classical Philologists at Karl Ferdinand University
The classical philologists at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague represented the subjects of classical studies, especially Latin and Greek .
history
The Karl Ferdinand University in Prague is the oldest university that was founded in the German-speaking area. The professor of aesthetics and classical literature represented antiquity, but until the middle of the 19th century the professorship was occupied by aesthetes and writers, not by classical scholars in the modern sense.
This changed with the reform of the Austrian education system in 1848. In the course of this, a philological seminar for the education of high school teachers was founded and the professorship of classical literature was occupied by Georg Curtius , who had studied in Bonn and Berlin. In the following time two more chairs were added to this professorship.
After the annexation of the Czech Republic by the German Reich in 1939, almost all previous lecturers and professors were dismissed and deported (the so-called special action Prague ). Their German successors worked at the university until the end of the war. After the occupation of the Czech Republic by the Red Army in 1945, the Institute for Classical Philology was closed together with the German University in Prague.
The first column shows the name of the person and their life data, the second column shows the entry into the university, and the third column shows the departure. Column four lists the highest position achieved at the German University in Prague. 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, if any.
List of Classical Philologists
scientist | from | to | Functions | Remarks | image | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
August Gottlieb Meißner (1753–1807) | 1785 | 1805 | Full professor | Professor of aesthetics and classical literature; Writer; changed to the high school in Fulda | ||
Karl Agnel Schneider (1766-1835) | 1805 | 1806 | stand-in | Prague lawyer, writer and poet; Representation of the professorship for aesthetics and classical literature; later judicial director of Count Colloredo-Wallsee | ||
Joseph Georg Meinert (1773–1844) | 1806 | 1811 | Full professor | originally high school teacher; Supplent of aesthetics and classical literature, later professor of aesthetics, history of the arts and sciences and philosophy | ||
Alois Klar (1763-1833) | 1806 | 1831 | Full professor | Professor of Greek Philology and Classical Literature | ||
Johann Heinrich Dambeck (1774-1820) | 1812 | 1820 | Full professor | Meissner's pupil, writer, translator from English and Italian; Professor of Aesthetics, History of Arts and Sciences and Philosophy | ||
Anton Müller (1792–1843) | 1826 | 1842 | Full professor | Professor of aesthetics and classical literature; Writer and song poet | ||
Josef Wessely | 1843 | 1844 | stand-in | |||
Michael of Canaval (1798–1868) | 1845 | 1848 | Full professor | Professor of aesthetics and classical literature; writer | ||
Georg Curtius (1820-1885) | 1849 | 1854 | Full professor | Professor of Classical Literature, pioneer of Greek language research ( Greek School Grammar , 1852), gave lectures on comparative theory of forms; 1851 full professor; moved to Kiel in 1854 and to Leipzig in 1861 | ||
Georg Bippart (1816-1892) | 1852 | 1883 | Associate professor | Pindar and Horace researchers | ||
Ludwig Lange (1825–1885) | 1855 | 1859 | Full professor | Curtius' successor, linguist and historian, gave lectures on comparative syntax; moved to Giessen as full professor | ||
Franz Hochegger (1815–1875) | 1859 | 1860 | Full professor | Successor Lange, pushed the high school reform forward; 1860 director of the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna | ||
Alfred Ludwig (1832–1912) | 1860 | 1871 | Associate professor | Successor to Hochegger, linguist, founder of Indology in Austria; Professor of Classical Philology and Comparative Linguistics, from 1871 exclusively for Comparative Linguistics | ||
Jan Kvíčala (1834–1908) | 1861 | 1882 | Full professor | Curtius student from Prague, first professor of the Czech nation; Appointed as holder of a third (extraordinary) professorship in 1861, appointed full professor in 1867; went to the Czech University when the university was divided in 1882 | ||
Gustav Linker (1827-1881) | 1871 | 1881 | Full professor | Successor to Ludwig; Sallust and Cicero researchers | ||
Otto Keller (1838–1927) | 1881 | 1909 | Full professor | Linker's successor, historian and philologist, researched the metrics and natural science of the Romans; Retired in 1909 | ||
Carl von Holzinger (1849–1935) | 1883 | 1921 | Full professor | Successor to Bippart, not qualified as a professor; initially associate professor, full professor in 1887; Aristophanes researcher | ||
Alois Rzach (1850-1935) | 1876 | 1923 | Full professor | Successor to Kvíčala; initially private lecturer, in 1883 at the work of Keller and Holzinger's associate professor, in 1887 full professor, retired in 1923, continued teaching as honorary professor; Hesiod , epics and oracle researchers | ||
Siegfried Reiter (1863–1943) | 1901 | 1938 | Full professor | Habilitation in Prague in 1901, associate professor in 1913, successor to Holzinger in 1922, retired in 1933; Specialist in Hellenistic and Christian authors | ||
Otto Plasberg (1869–1924) | 1909 | 1911 | Full professor | Keller's successor, Cicero researcher; moved to Strasbourg in 1911 | ||
Alfred Klotz (1874–1956) | 1911 | 1920 | Full professor | Successor to Plasberg, specialist in Roman prose literature; moved to Erlangen | ||
Theodor Hopfner (1886–1946) | 1919 | 1945 | Full professor | 1919 private lecturer, successor to Rzach as associate professor in 1923, full professor in 1928; Religious scholar and orientalist | ||
Edgar Martini (1871-1932) | 1922 | 1932 | Full professor | Successor Klotz '; Text critic and Photios researcher | ||
Maximilian Adler (1884–1944) | 1933 | 1939 | Associate professor | Deputy chair after Martini's death, 1937 associate professor; Released in 1939, deported to Theresienstadt in 1942, murdered in Auschwitz in 1944; Specialist in Greek philosophy (especially the Stoa ) | ||
Artur Biedl (1904–1950) | 1931 | 1938 | assistant | Specialist in Roman historiography, held courses on Greek and Roman subjects, went to Teplitz as a high school teacher in 1938 | ||
Anton Blaschka (1892–1970) | 1939 | 1944 | Private lecturer | Middle Latin, hired in 1939 to support Hopfner; Drafted into the armed forces in 1944 | ||
Viktor Stegemann (1902–1948) | 1940 | 1945 | Full professor | Successor to Reiters, religious scholar; fled to Munich in 1945 | ||
Viktor Pöschl (1910–1997) | 1940 | 1942 | Private lecturer | Latinist; Drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942, from 1948 at the University of Graz |
First Chair (Ordinariate):
- 1849–1854: Georg Curtius
- 1855–1859: Ludwig Lange
- 1859–1860: Franz Hochegger
- 1860–1871: Alfred Ludwig (associate professor)
- 1871–1881: Gustav Linker
- 1881–1909: Otto Keller
- 1909–1911: Otto Plasberg
- 1911–1920: Alfred Klotz
- 1922-1932: Edgar Martini
- 1933–1939: Maximilian Adler (deputy chair)
Second chair (associate professor, later professorial):
- 1852–1883: Georg Bippart
- 1883–1921: Carl Holzinger (1887 full professor)
- 1922–1933: Siegfried Reiter (professor)
- 1943–1945: Viktor Stegemann (full professor)
Third chair (associate professor, later professorial):
- 1861–1882: Jan Kvíčala (1867 full professor)
- 1883–1923: Alois Rzach (1887 full professor)
- 1923–1945: Theodor Hopfner (1928 full professor)
literature
- Franz Brunhölzl : Theodor Hopfner (1886–1945), Viktor Stegemann (1902–1948), Albert Rehm (1871–1949) . In: Eikasmós 4, 1993, pp. 203-216.
- Martin Sicherheitsl : Memories of Prague (1933–1937) . In: Eikasmós 4, 1993, pp. 85-94.
- Martin Sicherheitsl: Classical Philology at the German University of Prague 1849–1945 . In: Writings of the Sudetendeutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste 20, 1999, pp. 285–337 (abridged version in: Eikasmós 14, 2003, pp. 393–419).