Ludwig Schopen

Ludwig Schopen, grave medallion by Robert Cauer d. Ä. at the old cemetery in Bonn

Ludwig Schopen (born October 17, 1799 in Düsseldorf , † November 22, 1867 in Bonn ) was a German classical philologist and Byzantinist .

Ludwig Schopen, the son of a building contractor, attended grammar school in Düsseldorf, where the teachers Karl Wilhelm Kortüm and Friedrich Kohlrausch encouraged him to study history and philology. After two semesters at the University of Heidelberg , he went to the newly founded University of Bonn in the fall of 1818 . There he closely followed Karl Friedrich Heinrich , the head of the philological seminar, who already placed him in 1820 as an assistant teacher at the Bonn grammar school.

On June 2, 1821, Schopen was the first doctoral student in Bonn to become a Dr. phil. PhD . Shortly afterwards he completed the state examination and was employed as a regular teacher at the Bonn grammar school. In 1825 he was promoted to senior teacher, in 1830 he received the title of professor. In addition to his teaching activities, Schopen devoted himself to philological and historical studies. He worked with the philologist August Ferdinand Naeke and with the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr . His main research focus was Byzantine historiography. Schopen delivered critical editions of the writings of Johannes Kantakouzenos and Nikephoros Gregoras .

After the death of Heinrich and Naeke (1838), Schopen was appointed associate professor at the University of Bonn in 1840 to support Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker and Friedrich Ritschl . In 1844 Schopen was promoted to full professor, in 1846 he made up his habilitation . He gave lectures on Greek and Roman literature as well as on Roman "antiquities".

Schopen continued his research and lecturing activities when he was appointed director of the Bonn grammar school in 1847. He died on November 22, 1867 of a nervous disease.

Fonts (selection)

• De Terentio et Donato eius interprete dissertatio critica . Bonn 1821 (dissertation)
• Specimen emendationis in Aelii Donati commentarios Terentianos ad novam totius operis editionem indicendam propositum . Bonn 1826 (school program)
• Ioannis Cantacuzeni eximperatoris historiarum libri IV. Graece et Latine . Three volumes, Bonn 1828–1832
• Nicephori Gregorae Byzantina historia Graece et Latine cum annotationibus here. Wolfii, Car. Ducangii, Io. Boivini et Cl. Capperonnerii . Two volumes, Bonn 1829–1830
• Critical contributions to Fronto . Bonn 1830 (school program)
• Unedited scholia on Terence . Bonn 1832 (school program)
• Annae Comnenae Alexiadis libri XV . Two volumes, Bonn 1839–1878
• D. Iunii Iuvenalis Satirae cum commentariis Caroli Frid. Heinrichii . Bonn 1839
• Emendationes Frontianae. Part. II . Bonn 1841 (school program)
• Diorthotica in varios scriptores veteres. Particula great . Bonn 1846 (habilitation thesis)
• Carmina Valerii Catonis cum AF Naekii annotationibus . Bonn 1847
• Unedited scholia to Juvenal's III. Satire . Bonn 1847 (school program)
• Diorthotica in Cornelii Taciti Dialogum . Bonn 1858 (school program)

literature

• Richard Hoche :  Schopen, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 331 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Ludwig Schopen  - Sources and full texts

• Schopen, Ludwig .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .