List of classical philologists at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
The list of classical philologists at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn lists well-known university professors in this subject who worked at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .
overview
The Department of Classical Philology was founded a few months after the inauguration of the University of Bonn on February 19, 1819. The model was the seminar of the University of Göttingen , which had been founded by Johann Matthias Gesner in 1738 and led by Christian Gottlob Heyne from 1763 to 1812 . Karl Friedrich Heinrich and August Ferdinand Naeke were appointed as the first directors of the Bonn seminar . After Heinrich's death Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker took over the management of the seminar in 1838, after Naekes death in the same year Friedrich Ritschl was placed at his side in April 1839 . Welcker and Naeke founded the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie in 1833 , which since then has been (with interruptions) one of the most important publication organs for classical studies.
The collaboration between Ritschl and Welcker marked the first high point of the Bonn School of Classical Philology. Ritschl acquired a large student body in the 36 years of his time in Bonn; he concentrated on the textual criticism of Latin authors. As an archaeologist and philologist, Welcker represented the subject philology in Bonn. In 1855 Otto Jahn was appointed full professor to discharge him . His relationship with Ritschl was personally strained and escalated in the Bonn philologists ' dispute in 1865 , as a result of which Ritschl left Bonn and moved to the Saxon University of Leipzig . Jahn died four years later.
The third phase of the Bonn School of Philology was determined by Ritschl and Jahn's successors, Hermann Usener and Franz Bücheler . Usener was a leading religious scholar of his time, Bücheler was a text critic and researcher of realities. In addition to her two chairs, there was a third, the owner of which was also the seminar director. While the first holder of this chair had little charisma, the third holder, Anton Elter, made a name for himself as an effective academic teacher. After Bücheler's and Usener's retirement, he taught alongside their successors , August Brinkmann and Friedrich Marx . These three mark the fourth phase of the Bonn School (approx. 1900–1920), which was continued in Ernst Bickel and Christian Jensen .
During the time of National Socialism , the Bonn Classical Philologists kept a critical distance from the prevailing ideology. Hans Herter , Jensen's successor, was outwardly adapted to the regime (member of the SA, the NSLB, the NSDAP and the NSDDB), but kept his research and teaching activities free from National Socialist influences. He stayed in office after the end of World War II and retired in 1967.
In the post-war period, the spectrum of philology in Bonn expanded. Ernst Bickel's successor Wolfgang Schmid dealt with the ancient literature of antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times. In 1965 Dieter Schaller was appointed as an extraordinary (from 1967 full) professor for Middle and New Latin Philology. Schaller headed the Middle Latin seminar until his retirement in 1994 and thereafter until 1997, when the Middle Latin seminar was dissolved. He was succeeded in 1997 by Marc Laureys . From 1973 to 2007, Byzantine Studies was also represented at the Bonn seminar with a professorship held by Erich Trapp . From 1968 to 2006 Elsie Mathiopoulou-Tornaritou represented the field of Neo -Greek Studies as an academic adviser and honorary professor. Since her retirement, lecturers have given modern Greek language courses.
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 Bonn. 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.
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literature
- Ernst Bickel, Christian Jensen: The Philological Seminar . In: History of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn am Rhein . Second volume: Institutes and seminars 1818–1933 . Bonn 1933, pp. 187-208.
- Hans Herter, Georg Luck, Wolfgang Schmid: Classical Philology . In: 150 Years of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818-1968. Bonn scholars. Contributions to the history of science in Bonn: Philosophy and ancient studies . Bonn 1968, pp. 127-214.
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First chair: Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1818–1838) | Ludwig Schopen (1840–1867) | Friedrich Heimsoeth (1865–1877) | Eduard Lübbert (1881–1889) | Anton Elter (1890–1925) | Christian Jensen (1926–1938) | Hans Herter (1938–1967) | Hartmut Erbse (1968–1984) | Thomas A. Schmitz (since 2003)
Second chair: August Ferdinand Naeke (1818–1838) | Friedrich Ritschl (1839–1865) | Hermann Usener (1866–1902) | August Brinkmann (1902–1923) | Georg Luck (1962–1972) | Willy Schetter (1972–1992)
Third chair: Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1819–1861) | Otto Jahn (1855–1869) | Franz Bücheler (1870–1906) | Friedrich Marx (1906–1927) | Ernst Bickel (1928–1948) | Wolfgang Schmid (1950–1978) | Otto Zwierlein (1979-2004) | Dorothee Gall (2005–2019) | Gernot Michael Müller (since 2019)