Max Siebourg

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Max Siebourg (born October 3, 1863 in Krefeld , † September 20, 1936 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German classical philologist and didactic .

Life

Max Siebourg, the son of the merchant Wilhelm Siebourg and Anna born. Steiger, attended the municipal high school in Krefeld and studied classical philology and archeology at the University of Bonn with Franz Bücheler and Hermann Usener from 1882 to 1886 . From 1884 to 1886 he worked as an amanuensis at the university library . After obtaining his doctorate with the dissertation De Sulevis , Campestribus, Fatis (August 10, 1886), he passed the state examination in Latin, Greek, German, philosophy and history on March 5, 1887. From 1887 to 1888 he completed the probationary year at the municipal high school in Krefeld, where he was then employed as a scientific assistant teacher. On April 1, 1891 he was permanently employed as a senior teacher.

In addition to his work at the grammar school, Siebourg also remained active in scientific research. For the year 1896/1897 he received half a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , which enabled him to spend six months in Italy and Greece. On April 1, 1898 Siebourg was transferred to the Royal High School in Bonn .

On April 1, 1907 Siebourg was appointed director of the high school in Mönchengladbach . On April 1, 1910, he moved to the Royal High School in Essen . On July 1, 1916, he left school and went to Berlin as a provincial school councilor. In 1919 he moved to the provincial school council in Koblenz as senior government councilor, where he was appointed vice president in 1924. At the same time he was since March 1, 1927 honorary professor for didactics of ancient languages ​​at the University of Bonn. After his retirement on April 1, 1931, he moved to Bad Godesberg .

In addition to his work in the school service, in school administration and at the university, Siebourg also worked as a specialist scientist. Based on his dissertation on the matron cult, he published numerous studies on ancient inscriptions and works of art from the Rhineland. From 1903 he was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a member of the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland , of which he was President from 1932 to 1934.

From July 1917 to 1930 Siebourg was together with Paul Lorentz editor of the monthly for higher schools , in which he himself published numerous articles. In 1929 he founded the series of supplements to the monthly for higher schools .

Max Siebourg was married to Hedwig geb. Luthe. Her son was the entrepreneur Werner Siebourg (1917–1984), from 1948 to 1983 member of the board of the Union Rheinische Braunkohlen fuel AG .

Fonts (selection)

  • De Sulevis, Campestribus, Fatis . Bonn 1886 (dissertation)
  • Kant's doctrine of causality according to his second analogy of experience . Krefeld 1890
  • Acropolis and Roman Forum. Wall painting in the auditorium of M. Gladbach's grammar school by M. Roeder in Rome . Mönchengladbach 1908
  • with Josef Kuckhoff: German questions of life. War books for the German youth, initially for the civic instruction in the middle and upper classes of the higher educational institutions and in related schools with regard to the tremendous events of the present . Leipzig 1915
  • The internal further education of our higher schools . Leipzig 1917
  • with Ludwig Mader : Latin course. Part 5: Latin School Grammar . Berlin 1928. 3rd, improved edition 1931. 5th edition 1937

literature

  • Hans Herter : Classical Philology since Usener and Bücheler . In: Bonn scholars. Contributions to the history of science in Bonn. Philosophy and Classical Studies . Bonn 1968. pp. 165–211 (on Siebourg especially p. 206)
  • August Oxé : In memory of Max Siebourg . In: Bonner Jahrbücher . Issue 140/141 (1936), pp. 505-507
  • Otto Wenig: Directory of professors and lecturers at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818–1968 . Bonn 1968
  • Lothar Wickert : Contributions to the history of the German Archaeological Institute 1879 to 1929 . Mainz 1979. ISBN 3-8053-0395-5 , p. 196

Web links

Wikisource: Max Siebourg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Heyer: Culture in Bonn in the Third Reich . Bonn 2002, p. 191.
personal data
SURNAME Siebourg, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siebourg, Peter Wilhelm Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1936
Place of death bad Godesberg