Ludwig Bachmann (philologist)

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Ludwig Bachmann (born January 1, 1792 in Leipzig , † April 15, 1881 in Rostock ; full name: Gottlob Ludwig Ernst Bachmann ) was a German classical philologist who was director of the Great City School (1832-1865) and professor at the University of Rostock (1833-1881) worked.

Life

Ludwig Bachmann, the son of a merchant and manorial estate owner, studied philology in Leipzig from 1812 to 1817 , where he joined the circle of the famous text critic Gottfried Hermann . After graduating, he worked as a collaborator in Halle for six months and then left his home country in the fall of 1817 to work as a high school teacher (later a high school professor) and prince educator in Wertheim . When his pupil, the Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein, moved into the university in 1825, Bachmann resigned and embarked on a research trip lasting several years. In the libraries of Rome, Naples, Vienna and Paris he examined various manuscripts by ancient authors. As early as 1827 he published a work entitled The Egyptian Papyrus of the Vatican Library , a translation of Angelo Mai's catalog of the Catalogo de 'papiri egiziani della Biblioteca vaticana (Rome 1825), which had recently appeared .

After three years Bachmann returned to Germany in order to devote himself to evaluating his discoveries and his professional advancement in Leipzig. In 1828 and 1829 his Anecdota graeca e codicibus manuscriptis bibliothecae regiae Parisinae descriptis appeared in two volumes. Because of this work he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. His critical new edition of Alexandra des Lykophron from Chalkis ( Lycophronis Alexandra , Leipzig 1830) earned Bachmann the appointment of director of the Great City School in Rostock , which he followed in autumn 1832. A year later he was appointed part-time full professor of ancient literature at the University of Rostock . In this office he read on archeology , mythology and ancient geography . He was often unable to hold the lectures he had announced on Greek and Latin authors, partly because of his workload as headmaster, partly because of the small number of philology students in Rostock. Finally, in 1865, he resigned from the management of the city school for reasons of age, but still lectured at the university well into old age. His successor at the city school was Karl Ernst Hermann Krause .

In Rostock, Bachmann continued his scientific activity without interruption despite the double office burden. He published critical editions and treatises on Callimachus , Meletius of Antioch , Manuel Moschopulus , Homer ( Iliad ) and Theodore II Laskaris . Bachmann was one of the few philologists of his time who dealt with all of Greek literature from its beginnings to the late Byzantine period. He was a member of the Rostock Masonic Lodge "To the Temple of Truth".

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SURNAME Bachmann, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachmann, Gottlob Ludwig Ernst; Bachmannus, Ludovicus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1881
Place of death Rostock