Ludwig Lemcke

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Ludwig Lemcke (born December 25, 1816 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † September 21, 1884 in Gießen ) was a German literary historian and Romanist . His motto was “Always employment, but no work!”.

Life

Ludwig Gustav Constantin Lemcke was born in 1816 as the son of the pharmacist and Brandenburg city councilor Julius Ludwig Lemcke and his wife Marie Dorothea Christine. According to several sources, the father is said to have been "exaggerated" or "eccentric", which is why his wife separated from him in 1827. After the separation, Lemcke moved with his mother to Braunschweig , where he attended grammar school until Easter 1835 and then lectured at the Collegium Carolinum .

At the age of 20 Lemcke began his studies at the Berlin University , where he attended philosophical lectures by Franz Bopp , Karl Ludwig Michelet , Eduard Gans and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg , among others . He also took part in the colleges of August Boeckh ( classical philology ), Karl Lachmann (German and Latin philology), Leopold von Ranke ( history ) and Carl Ritter ( geography ).

In addition to German, Latin and ancient Greek , Lemcke also learned Sanskrit and Arabic during this time , but did not decide on a specific course of study and left the university on March 14, 1840 without a formal degree. Nevertheless, Lemcke later seems to have acquired his doctorate, since he was appointed Dr. Adolf Ebert in 1860. Lemcke is called.

On April 26, 1840, Lemcke married Mathilde Sophie Aline Pfaff and moved with her to Uslar . A year later the couple moved into a house in Braunschweig, where Lemcke gathered numerous educated friends around them and even set up a chemical laboratory . The extensive library, which Lemcke had already begun to create as a child, was one of the most important private collections in Germany and contained a few other rarities as well as a collection of Spanish dramas and Italian novels. But already in 1848 Lemcke had lost his fortune through unfortunate speculations, had to sell his library and look for a job.

Lemcke initially worked as a translator and then spent a year in Paris between 1853 and 1854 to research a three-volume manual of Spanish literature for his main work at the Imperial Library . After his return, Lemcke began to work as an English and French teacher at the local grammar school and, from New Year 1859, at the Pott'sche School for Higher Daughters (today: Gymnasium Kleine Burg ).

Since 1853 Lemcke had been in contact with Ferdinand Wolf and Adolf Ebert because of his scientific work and was appointed to the University of Marburg as successor to the latter in 1863 , where he taught first as an associate and two years later as a professor of Romance philology. In 1867 Lemcke left the city of Marburg in favor of Gießen , where he had also been offered a professorship.

Lemcke's wife died on November 30, 1877 and a little later he showed signs of cancer himself , due to which he had to limit his teaching activities in 1881 and to give up completely in 1883. Lemcke succumbed to his illness on September 21, 1884.

His main work is the handbook of Spanish literature (Leipzig 1855, 3 vols.). Numerous essays by him can be found in Ebert's yearbook for Romance and English literature , which he edited in 1866. He also translated Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ludwig Lemcke  - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Ludwig Lemcke in the catalog of the German National Library


Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Edward Schröder: Lemcke, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . tape 51 . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 639-342 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Edmund Stengel: Lemcke, Ludwig Gustav Constantin . In: Herman Haupt (Hrsg.): Hessische Biographien . tape 2 . Hessischer Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1927, p. 301 .
  3. ^ Adolf Ebert: Bibliography of the year 1859 . In: Adolf Ebert, Ferdinand Wolf (Hrsg.): Yearbook for Romance and English literature . tape 2 . Ferdinand Dümmler's Verlagbuchhandlung and A. Asher & Co., Berlin 1860, p. 436 .
  4. ^ Franz Grundlach: Ludwig Gustav Constantin Lemcke 1863-1867 . In: Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis . tape 1 . Marburg 1927.
personal data
SURNAME Lemcke, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemcke, Ludwig Gustav Constantin; Lemke, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1884
Place of death to water