Ludolf Stephani

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Ludolf Stephani (* 29. March 1816 in Beucha in Leipzig , † May 30th . Jul / 11 June 1887 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Ludolf Stephani attended the Princely School Grimma and studied at the University of Leipzig . Although Gottfried Hermann , his most influential academic teacher, belonged more to word philology , Stephani orientated himself on a comprehensive classical scholarship, as represented by Karl Otfried Müller and August Boeckh .

After completing his studies, Stephani attended the collections of antiques in Dresden and Berlin and worked (through Hermann's mediation) as a tutor in Athens. From there he traveled to Rome in 1843, where he lived for two years and made excursions throughout Italy. During these years at the latest, Stephani turned completely to archeology.

After his return to Leipzig (1845), Stephani received two offers from abroad: a chair in " Classical Philology , Aesthetics and History of Ancient Art" at the University of Dorpat , to which Ludwig Preller had suggested him as his successor, and membership at the Academy of the sciences at Saint Petersburg (as successor to Heinrich Karl Ernst Koehler ), which the Russian Minister of Education Uvarow proposed to him on the advice of Gottfried Hermann.

Stephani opted for the chair in Dorpat, but at the same time kept an eye on St. Petersburg, where Uvarow held the position at the academy for him. From 1846 to 1850 Stephani worked in Dorpat and gave courses on ancient literature and art. Since he had to look after the university's course catalogs, he was able to publish the inscriptions he found in Greece in them. On behalf of the academy, he published Köhler's writings in six volumes.

In 1850 Stephani left Dorpat and moved to St. Petersburg, where he represented classical studies as a real councilor and full member of the Academy of Sciences. This position was also associated with the management of the Hermitage Museum of Antiquities , where Stephani worked as a conservator from autumn 1850.

From 1859 the academy carried out excavations on the Black Sea coast to uncover the ancient remains of the Greek colonies and the Bosporan Empire . Until his death, Stephani occupied himself with the scientific description and interpretation of the finds, which he published in the Academy's treatises (in German and French).

Stephani also enjoyed great recognition abroad: in 1863 he was elected by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as a foreign member of its philosophical-philological class, in 1869 by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences as an external member and in 1875 by the Prussian Academy of Sciences as a corresponding member.

Fonts (selection)

  • The fight between Theseus and the Minotaur . Leipzig 1842
  • Travel through some areas of northern Greece . Leipzig 1843
  • Titulorum Graecorum Parts I-V . Dorpat 1848-1850
  • Antiquités du Bosphore Cimmérien . Three volumes, St. Petersburg 1854
  • Apollon Boëdromios . St. Petersburg 1860
  • The vase collection of the imperial hermitage . St. Petersburg 1869
  • The snake feeding . St. Petersburg 1873
  • The silver vase from Nikopol . St. Petersburg 1873

Editing

  • HKE Köhler's collected writings . Six volumes, St. Petersburg 1850–1853
  • Compte-Rendu de la Commission Impériale archéologique pour les années 1859–1881 . 21 volumes, St. Petersburg 1860–1883

Familiar

Ludolf Stephani was the son of the Protestant pastor of the Bergkirche Beucha , Eduard Stephani, and brother of Eduard Stephani (1817–1885), politician and Vice Mayor of Leipzig.

Both his grandfather and his father were pastors of the Bergkirche Beucha throughout their lives : Friedrich Gotthold Stephani (1760–1811) studied at the University of Leipzig from 1779, received his master's degree and worked from 1785 to 1811 as pastor of Beucha. His son Eduard Stephani (1787–1856) was a prince's student in Grimma from 1800 to 1805 , studied at the University of Leipzig from 1805, earned his master's degree in 1818, became a catechist in Leipzig St. Petri in 1810 and was the successor of the Father as pastor in Beucha.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ludolf Stephani  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 233.
personal data
SURNAME Stephani, Ludolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stephani, Ludolf Eduard; Stephani, Ludolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Beucha near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1887
Place of death St. Petersburg