Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier

Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier , also: Eduard Meier (born January 1, 1796 in Groß Glogau ; † December 5, 1855 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

The son of a Jewish merchant was originally supposed to take up his father's profession. He had initially attended the community school in his hometown and received further training at the Berlin high school to become a gray monastery . On April 8, 1813 he moved to the University of Breslau , the following year he moved to the University of Berlin , where August Boeckh was his leading teacher. In 1816 he left the university in order to devote himself to private studies. During this time he converted to Christianity and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1818.

Following an academic career , Meier completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at the University of Halle in 1819 , became an associate professor of history and classical philology at the University of Greifswald in 1820 and, after working with Georg Friedrich Schömann (1793–1879), an academic tender from the Berlin Academy of Sciences won with the book "The Attic Trial" in 1824, he was made an honorary doctorate in law in Greifswald. In the same year he was offered a full professorship in Halle, which he took up at Easter 1825.

He became director of the philological seminar, dealt with the real subjects of history in addition to the Attic speakers in his lectures, participated as an author in the General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts and in 1828 became co-editor of the general literary newspaper there. In 1832 he was also entrusted with the professorship of rhetoric , which he handed over for the next three years in 1845 at a time of political excitement, which also touched him. Meier also took part in the organizational tasks of the University of Halle and was prorector of the Alma Mater for two terms in 1848/50 . The old liberal Maier, who was politically influential, became a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 1854 . But he died the following year of a lung disease.

From his marriage to Caroline Julie Wilhelmine (1800–1864), the daughter of the Berlin manufacture director Johann Georg Roesch and his wife Marie Elisabeth Amalie Jung, his son Eduard Meier (1834–1899) became known as an iron and steel specialist . His son is the important art historian Julius Meier-Graefe (1867–1935).

Works (selection)

• Theses, ad ius civile et litterarum antiquarum disciplinam spectantes. 1824 (with Eduard A Weise)
• Praefatiuncula de artibus liberalibus et illiberalibus apud Romanos. 1829
• Praefatio de perfidia Graecorum. 1830
• The doctrine of the release among the Greeks and the constitutional history of the Amphictyonic League, Delphi's and Erythrae's.
• Demosthenis Oratio in Midiam. Graech recensuit, scholia vetera anotationem criticam et commentarios. Hall 1831
• De gentilitate Attica. Hall 1835
• Commentatio Theophrasteo. typis Hendelianis, 1835
• Ostracism. 1836
• De Andocidis oratione contra Alcibiadem. Hall 1836
• Pederasty. 1837
• De Crantoris Solensis libro deperdito. Hall 1840
• Pergamene Empire. Leipzig, 1842
• De proxenia sive de publico Graecorum hospito. Hall 1843
• Fragmentum lexici rhetorici. Hall 1844
• Commentatio de Plauti Trinummo. 1845
• The private arbitrators and the public diets of Athens. Hall 1846
• De vita Lycurgi et de Lycurgi orationum reliquiis. Hall 1847
• De lege Soloni. 1849
• Mauritii Hermanni Eduardi Meieri Commentatio epigraphica. 1852

literature

• Gustav Friedrich Hertzberg :  Meier, Moritz Hermann Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 209-211.

Web links

• Literature by and about Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier  in the German Digital Library