Ludwig Jeep

Ludwig August Jeep (born August 12, 1846 in Wolfenbüttel ; † January 4, 1911 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German classical philologist who worked as a high school and university teacher (1893-1910 full professor) in Königsberg. He came to the fore in particular through studies and text-critical contributions to the Church Fathers, the grammarians and the late antique poet Claudian .

Life

Ludwig Jeep came from a family that had lived in the Dransfeld area since the 17th century . His aunt Auguste Johanne Friederike geb. Jeep was the mother of the writer Wilhelm Raabe , his father Justus Jeep (1799-1884) was a teacher in Holzminden and later a high school director in Wolfenbüttel . Ludwig August Jeep was the youngest of the ten children of Justus Jeep and his wife Emilie nee. Kloz, the daughter of a mountain assessor in Halle .

The musically gifted Ludwig discovered early on his inclination for classical studies. He attended the high school in Wolfenbüttel and left it in 1865 with the school leaving certificate to study classical philology in Göttingen . Here he became a student of Hermann Sauppe and Ernst Curtius , who encouraged him to move to the University of Leipzig . There he was accepted into the royal philological seminar and was decisively shaped by the linguist Georg Curtius and the text critic Friedrich Ritschl . The educator Friedrich August Eckstein accepted him as a full member in his educational seminar. After a few months of preparation in the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, Jeep received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1869 with the dissertation Quaestiones criticae ad emendationem Claudiani panegyricorum spectantes and passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools on January 22, 1870.

After completing his studies, Jeep went on research trips to Munich, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Montecassino, Perugia, Verona and Milan. His research in the libraries of these cities brought to light numerous new finds, which he passed on to Theodor Mommsen , Heinrich Keil and Ernst Ludwig Dümmler in Germany. His older brother Anton Rudolf Jeep (1844–1911), who was then working as a preacher at the Prussian embassy, ​​introduced him to society in Rome. Here Jeep met his colleague Adolf Philippi , with whom he had a long-standing friendship.

On October 1, 1871, Jeep accepted a position at the Thomas School in Leipzig , which was then headed by his former teacher Eckstein. Jeep was promoted to senior teacher in 1874 and married Ida Warburg. He made two more trips to Florence, where he met the Königsberg Provincial School Councilor Wilhelm Schrader. He appointed Jeep to the royal Friedrichskollegium in Königsberg in 1880 . In 1883 Jeep completed his habilitation at the Königsberg University and held lectures there for four years in addition to his school activities, from 1886 as an associate professor. The approval of a regular extraordinary position in 1887 enabled him to give up the teaching profession. After the death of the chair holder Heinrich Jordan , Jeep was his successor and in 1893 appointed full professor and head of the philological seminar and proseminar, which he reformed in 1907. In the academic year 1901/1902 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, the following year Rector Magnificus . On July 12, 1910, Jeep was appointed to the Privy Councilor in recognition of his services, but had to give up teaching shortly afterwards for health reasons. Despite serious internal suffering, he remained co-director of the seminar and was elected to the examination board. He died on January 4, 1911 after a long illness; according to his order, he was cremated in Hamburg, his wife's birthplace.

Services

Ludwig Jeep influenced classical philology through his writings and through his Königsberg students, whose numerous dissertations deal with the Latin rhetoricians, poets and grammarians. The influence of his teacher Ritschl can be seen in the concentration on textual criticism.

In his dissertation, Jeep prepared the first critical edition of the epic writer Claudian . His epic De raptu Proserpinae was published as a special edition in Turin in 1874 and was dedicated to Jeep's Italian friends. Theodor Mommsen asked Wilhelm Henzen in Rome whether Jeep would publish Claudian's writings for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH). At that time, however, Jeep had already committed to an edition with Teubner in Leipzig, which appeared in two volumes in 1876 and 1879. Although this edition created the basis for studying the poet, it was replaced a few years later by the MGH edition by Theodor Birt (MGH 10, 1893).

In addition to many individual works that deal with Homer, Peisandros, Sophocles, Thucydides, Xenophon and Demosthenes in text-critical and historical sources, Jeep concentrated his work particularly on the Church Fathers. Although he was unable to realize his plan to write a handbook and source book on church history, from 1884 he had an important influence on the declaration of church historians.

literature

• Johannes Tolkiehn : Ludwig Jeep . In: Biographical Yearbook for Classical Studies . 35th year (1913), pp. 121-133 (with list of publications)

Web links

Wikisource: Ludwig Jeep  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by Ludwig Jeep in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ludwig Jeep's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Lebrecht Schmidt : Politics and poetry in the panegyric of Claudians . in: Konstanzer Universitätsreden 55 (1976), p. 44f., note 2.
2. ↑ Tolkiehn (1913) 130.