Ludwig Voit

Ludwig Voit (born November 9, 1906 in Schweinfurt ; † August 28, 2001 in Munich ) was a German pedagogue and classical philologist and from 1961 to 1972 rector at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich .

biography

Voit went to the humanistic grammar school in Schweinfurt and studied classical philology, German, history and archeology at the universities of Erlangen , Berlin , Würzburg and Munich . He passed the state exams as a teacher in Munich and completed his teacher training from 1929 to 1931 at the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium and Maximiliansgymnasium. From 1931 he was at the seminar for classical philology in Munich and received his doctorate in 1934; his dissertation was entitled Deinotes, an ancient concept of style .

Then he was in Florence to prepare his habilitation on the Livy tradition. The prospects for a university career were slim during the global economic crisis . In 1938 he was co-author of the Latin textbook Das Erbe der Antike .

He was a soldier in World War II . After the war he was a seminar teacher for Greek at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , from 1952 to 1957 at the Wittelsbacher-Gymnasium (from 1954 as a seminar leader for Latin), then again at the Wilhelmsgymnasium and in 1961 he became rector of the Maximiliansgymnasium. There he ensured the expansion of modern foreign languages ​​and the natural sciences. He continued to teach Latin as the rector. In 1971 he retired.

He was a member of the board of the German Classical Philology Association and co-editor of the magazine Gymnasium . He was also deputy chairman of the German-Greek Society in Munich.

Together with Maria Zinsmeister, Voit was the author of numerous editions of the Latin teaching work Exercitia Latina , the first edition of which appeared in 1948.

Fonts

• Deinotes, an ancient concept of style. Diederichs, Leipzig 1934.
• with Maria Zinsmeister: Exercitia Latina: Latin textbook and exercise book for high schools, pre-semester courses and for self-teaching. 3 parts. Leibniz, Munich 1948.
• Ancient reading book. 3 volumes, Heimeran, Munich / Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1980 (Volume 1: Classical Greece from Homer to Aristotle ; Volume 2: Greek Hellenism and Roman Republic from Menander to Cicero ; Volume 3: The Roman Empire from Augustus to Boëthius ).
• with Hans Bengl: Roman heritage. A reader of Latin literature. 2 volumes, Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, Munich 1961 (with an outline of Roman art by Hans Kaehler).
• Ovid's Niobe. In: The high school. Volume 64, 1957, pp. 136-149.

literature

• Obituary in: Gymnasium. Volume 108, 2001, p. 484.

Web links

• Biography at the Maximiliansgymnasium