Martin Hertz

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Martin Hertz

Martin Julius Hertz (born April 7, 1818 in Hamburg , † September 22, 1895 in Breslau ) was a German classical philologist. As a university lecturer in Greifswald and Breslau, he created basic editions of the grammarist Priscian (Leipzig 1855-1859) and the colored writer Aulus Gellius ( editio minor 1853, editio maior 1883-1885).

Life

Martin Hertz was born as the son of the Jewish pharmacist Johann Jakob Hertz (1788–1867) and the banker's daughter Marianne born. Wolff (1792–1844) born. His brothers were the future Minister of Justice Otto Hertz (1820–1898) and the bookseller Wilhelm Ludwig Hertz (1822–1901). In 1828 the Hertz family was baptized as a Protestant Lutheran and moved to Berlin, where Martin Hertz attended the Gray Monastery high school from 1831 . His teachers there, Johann Friedrich Bellermann , Eduard Bonnell (1802–1877), Wilhelm Pape and Karl Friedrich Siegmund Alschefski (1805–1852) aroused his enthusiasm for ancient languages. From 1835 onwards, Hertz studied Classical Studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1836 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Bonn . During his studies, which he had to extend to seven years because of an eye disease, he attended courses with Barthold Georg Niebuhr and Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker in Bonn, in Berlin with Philipp August Boeckh , Johann Gustav Droysen , Theodor Panofka , Gustav Adolf Schöll and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg . The text critic Karl Lachmann had a particularly lasting influence on him . Hertz also dedicated his dissertation to him (on the Roman historian Cincius , 1842), which, however, was thematically based on Niebuhr.

Berlin

After he had also achieved his habilitation in Berlin in 1845, Hertz went on a study trip lasting several months through southern Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy and Austria. Here he collected material for critical editions of the colored writer Aulus Gellius , the Scholien des Germanicus (which he did not edit himself) and the grammarist Priscian . The Roman grammarians moved from there (through the influence of his teacher Lachmann) to the center of his lifelong work. After returning to Berlin, Hertz worked there for several years as a private lecturer. During the revolution of 1848/1849 he was committed to the interests of the middle class, joined a student corps and acted as an elector for the National Assembly. After 1849 he withdrew completely from politics and devoted himself only to teaching and research. After Lachmann's death (1851), Hertz published a biography of his mentor and for a short time co-directed the philological seminar alongside Böckh. In 1853 Moriz Haupt was appointed Lachmann's successor. In the same year Hertz founded a Latin society with selected students and published an edition of Gellius that he himself regarded as provisional.

Greifswald

In 1855 he followed the call of the Royal University of Greifswald to its chair for Classical Philology . Here appeared in two volumes (1855-1859) his edition of the Priscian, which was fundamental for the scientific study of this author. He also completed his four-volume edition of Livius here.

Wroclaw

But Hertz only stayed in Greifswald for a few years: in the summer of 1862, he received a call from the Royal University of Breslau . He turned down calls from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg . For the academic year 1876/77 he was elected rector . In Breslau, Hertz completed the scientific work he had begun in Berlin and Greifswald. In addition to numerous smaller writings, of which the one on Aulus Gellius appeared in an anthology ( Opuscula Gelliana ) in 1886 , he published the fourth volume of his Livius edition, his two-volume editio maior of the Noctes Atticae des Gellius (1883–1885), a second editio minor by the same writer (1886), and an edition by the poet Horace (1892). In addition to his own work, Hertz also showed a keen interest in large research companies. Again and again he warned the urgency of a comprehensive lexicographical project, which was finally realized from 1893 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae . He also wrote detailed reviews of the first RE volumes . After more than 30 years, he resigned his professorship in 1893 for health reasons.

Memberships

See also

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Martin Hertz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslist 1960, 12/209
  2. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Hertz, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertz, Martin Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist; University professor in Berlin, Greifswald and Breslau
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1895
Place of death Wroclaw