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Rudolph Friedrich Moriz Haupt (born July 27, 1808 in Zittau , † February 5, 1874 in Berlin ) was a German classical philologist and Germanist .

Life

Moriz Haupt (left) with Theodor Mommsen and Otto Jahn . Daguerreotype , Leipzig 1848.
Moriz Haupt in later years

Moriz Haupt grew up in Zittau, where his father Ernst Friedrich († 1843) was mayor until 1830 and worked as the editor of the yearbooks of the Zittau city clerk Johannes von Guben (Görlitz 1837) and as a translator of Goethe's poems and German hymns into Latin ( Carmina Goethii, Leipzig 1841, and Hymni sacri , Leipzig 1842) made a name. He received lessons from his father until he was 13 and attended the grammar school in Zittau from 1821 to 1826. From 1826 to 1830 he studied Classical Philology at the University of Leipzig under Gottfried Hermann and received his doctorate in 1831. He then lived with his sick father in Zittau until 1837, interrupted by trips to Vienna and Berlin in 1834. The friendship he had with Karl Lachmann in Berlin was formative for his further development. From 1830 to 1837 he expanded his knowledge of Greek, Latin, German, Bohemian, Old French and Provencal . In 1837 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig with a thesis on Catullus and became a private lecturer , in 1841 an associate professor, and in 1843 a full professor in the newly founded chair for German language and literature.

In 1842 he married Louise Hermann, the daughter of his academic teacher and colleague Gottfried Hermann. After the March Revolution of 1848, he and Theodor Mommsen and Otto Jahn were tried for their involvement in the uprising. He was acquitted of the charge of rioting , but not of any guilt, like Mommsen and Jahn. In 1851 he was removed from office by the Senate of the University of Leipzig and lived as a private scholar in Leipzig until he was appointed to Karl Lachmann's chair for Roman literature in Berlin at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in 1853 . Since 1861 permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences , he died in Berlin on February 5, 1874 of a heart attack.

For Gustav Freytag's novel The Lost Handwriting Haupt is the model of “Professor Werner”.

Haupt was one of the most important founding fathers of German studies . For his numerous Middle High German editions, he adopted Lachmann's text-critical method . The oldest Germanistic trade journal still in existence, the Journal for German Antiquity , was founded by him in 1841. It was preceded by Hoffmann von Fallersleben 's collection of old German sheets (Leipzig 1836–40, 2 volumes). Haupt's students included the philologists Christian Belger , Karl Lucae , Lucian Müller , Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Friedrich Zarncke .

Fonts

The following refer to classical antiquity :

  • Quaestiones Catullianae (Leipzig 1837)
  • Observationes criticae (Leipzig 1841)
  • De carminibus bucolicis Calpurnii et Nemesiani (Berlin 1854)

as well as the expenses:

  • the Halieutica Ovids
  • the Cynegetica of Gratius and Nemesianus (Leipzig 1838)
  • des Epicedion Drusi (Leipzig 1850)
  • des Horace (Leipzig 1851; 4th edition by Vahlen, 1882)
  • des Catullus , Tibullus , Properz (Leipzig 1853; 5th edition by Vahlen, 1885)
  • the Metamorphoses of Ovid (vol. 1, Berlin 1853; 7th edition by HI Müller, 1885; vol. 2 by Korn, 1876);

in the Weidmann collection of Greek and Roman writers with German annotations that he founded in 1848 with Sauppe

  • the Germania of Tacitus (Berlin 1855) and Virgil (Leipzig 1858, 2nd ed. 1874).

In his smaller writings

Haupt contributed mostly convincing, always noteworthy conjectures for almost all of Greek and Latin literature. He edited two works from the estate of his father-in-law Gottfried Hermann, who died in 1848:

  • Bion and Moschos (Leipzig 1849), as well as the
  • Aeschylos (Leipzig 1852, 2 vol .; 2nd edition 1859)

out.

His attempt to explain the origin of the word Fidibus should be mentioned from his contributions to etymology , see there.

For the literature of the German Middle Ages he provided editions:

As editor or co-editor he got:

  • Lachmann's edition of the oldest Middle High German poets ( Des Minnesangs Frühling , Leipzig 1857; 38th edition by Tervooren, 1988)
  • the 3rd and 4th editions of Lachmann's edition of the Nibelungs (Berlin 1852 and 1867) and
  • the poems of Walther von der Vogelweide (Berlin 1853 and 1864).

Testimony to his studies of the Romance languages are those published by Tobler from his estate:

  • French folk songs (Leipzig 1877).

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Andree: What was Rudolf Virchow's relationship with contemporary poets, artists, publishers and editors? Attempt to approach via the correspondent. Part II. In: Würzburger medical history reports 12, 1994, pp. 259–286; here: p. 261 f. ( Haupt, Moritz ), especially p. 262
  2. ↑ Cf. Uwe Meves: Haupt, Moriz Rudolph Friedrich . In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , p. 682.

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personal data
SURNAME Head, Moriz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haupt, Rudolph Friedrich Moriz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1874
Place of death Leipzig