Max Treu (philologist)
Max Treu (also Max Fromhold-Treu , born October 31, 1907 in Oppekaln , † June 19, 1980 in Munich ) was a Baltic German classical philologist .
life and work
Max Treu came from a German Baltic pastor family. His great-grandparents were the pastor Johannes Hermann Treu (1794–1849) and Marianne von Fromhold; his grandparents were the pastor Bruno Fromhold Treu (1823-1897) and Julie Charlotte nee. Schilling (1830-1903); his father was Oskar Fromhold Treu (1870–1918), since 1897 pastor in Oppekaln. From 1922 Max Treu attended the Classical Gymnasium in Riga, where he passed the matriculation examination in 1926 as the best of his year. He then studied Classical Philology, Archeology and Ancient History at the Universities of Riga and Leipzig . He became a member of the Baltic fraternity Fraternitas Rigensis . In 1937 he acquired theMaster's degree . From 1936 to 1939 he taught Latin and Greek at grammar schools in Riga and Mitau .
After the beginning of the Second World War , Treu moved to the German Empire . In 1939 he went to Leipzig as a teacher and in 1940 received an assistant position at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate from Friedrich Klingner in 1942 phil. received his doctorate . In 1946 he moved (together with Klingner) to the University of Munich , where he qualified as a professor for classical philology in 1952 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1958. In 1973 he retired.
The Baltic Corporation Fraternitas Dorpatensis to Munich took him in 1964 as honorary Philistines in their connection to.
In his research, Max Treu first dealt with the Roman historians and rhetors. After moving to Munich, he turned to Greek historians and poets. His habilitation thesis traced the archaic Greek worldview based on the language of Homer and the poets . In addition, from the 1950s onwards, Treu published bilingual editions of the Greek poets Alkaios , Sappho (reprinted several times), Archilochos and Menander in the Tusculum library .
Fonts (selection)
- The Telephos trilogy of Sophocles . In: Hermes . Volume 69 (1934), pp. 324-338
- From Homer to Poetry. Changes in the Greek view of the world in the mirror of language . Munich 1955. 2nd, revised edition 1968 ( Zetemata 12; revised version of the habilitation thesis, Munich 1952)
- Alcaios: songs. Greek and German . Munich 1952 ( Tusculum Collection )
- Sappho: songs. Greek and German . Munich 1954. 2nd, revised edition 1958. 8th edition 1991 ( Tusculum-Bücherei )
- Archilochus. Greek and German . Munich 1959. 2nd, improved edition 1979 ( Tusculum library )
- Menander: Dyscolus. With text-critical apparatus and explanations . Munich 1960 ( Tusculum library )
literature
- Dietrich A. Loeber : The classic high school in Riga 1919-1939. A reminder . Self-published 1970, p. 135; 182
- Udo W. Scholz : Anecdotal from my student days in Munich (1957–1960) . In: Eikasmós . Volume 4 (1993), pp. 81-83
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Volume 10, Munich 2008, p. 97
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Treu in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ ALBUM FRATRUM RIGENSIUM 1823–1979. Hechthausen 1981, No. 1260
- ↑ ALBUM FRATRUM DORPATENSIUM 1963, reception number 114
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faithful, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fromhold-Treu, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oppekaln |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1980 |
| Place of death | Munich |