Natalie Häpke

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Natalie Häpke (born July 26, 1871 in Bremen ; † September 11, 1923 ) was a German classical philologist . She published studies on the Roman politicians and orators Gaius Sempronius Gracchus and Lucius Licinius Crassus .

Life

Natalie Häpke was the daughter of Ludwig Häpke (1835–1922) and Marie geb. Farmer. Her father taught mathematics and natural sciences at the secondary school in Bremen and gave his daughters the best education possible at the time. Natalie Häpke attended primary school and then HCA habenicht's secondary school, where she learned French and English, among other things. In order to improve and consolidate her language skills, she went on long trips abroad, living in Lausanne for a year and in England for nine months . From there she went to Cape Town in South Africa in 1893 and gave German language courses there. In 1896 she returned to Bremen. From 1899 she was a regular German teacher inThe Hague .

At the same time, Häpke took private tuition in Latin, Greek and mathematics in order to obtain the general university entrance qualification. Her older sister Marie, who had studied in Göttingen from 1900 to 1903 and has since taught at a girls' school in Halberstadt , was possibly a role model . In August and September 1907 Natalie Häpke passed the matriculation examination at the old grammar school in Bremen (as an extra student, under the chairmanship of the school board Ferdinand Sander ). The aim of her studies was classical philology . She began her studies in the summer semester of 1908 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , where Classical Philology was represented by the renowned professors Eduard Norden , Hermann Diels and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and the assistants Rudolf Helm and Johannes Mewaldt . Häpke took part in the exercises in the philological seminar and also attended lectures by the historians Otto Hintze , Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt and Eduard Meyer , the philosopher Alois Riehl , the social economist Gustav von Schmoller , the sociologist Georg Simmel and the linguist Wilhelm Schulze .

After the two intensive semesters in Berlin, Häpke moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in the summer semester of 1909 , where she attended a broad spectrum of lectures similar to that in Berlin. In addition to lectures by the philosophers Clemens Baeumker and Moritz Geiger , the economist Lujo Brentano , the pedagogue Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster and the psychologist Gustav Kafka , however, she continued to focus on ancient studies. She heard linguistics with Wilhelm Streitberg , archeology with Paul Wolters , ancient history with Robert von Pöhlmann and especially classical philology with Professors Otto Crusius , Albert Rehm and Friedrich Vollmer as well as with the private lecturers Paul Lehmann , Walter F. Otto and Friedrich Zucker .

Häpke spent two semesters at smaller universities: the winter semester 1910/11 in Göttingen , where she attended lectures and exercises by the philologists Friedrich Leo , Max Pohlenz and Paul Wendland as well as the archaeologist Gustav Körte , the philosopher Edmund Husserl and the linguist Jacob Wackernagel ; the winter semester 1911/12 in Heidelberg , where she heard the lectures of the historians Alfred von Domaszewski and Wilhelm Oncken as well as the philologists Franz Boll and Fritz Schoell ; she also took part in the exercises in the philological seminar.

Häpke completed her studies in Munich. Her doctoral thesis on the speeches of the tribune Gaius Sempronius Gracchus emerged from the seminar exercises with Crusius, Rehm and Vollmer , for which she was able to fall back on the holdings of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae through Vollmer . She submitted her work, which was supervised by Vollmer and Crusius, on June 23, 1914 and completed the oral exam a month later, on July 23, 1914. With the publication of the work in 1915 she was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . She dedicated this work to her brother Gustav Häpke (1873–1949), who was then fighting in the First World War.

Since the scientific career for women was as good as impossible at that time, Häpke remained a private scholar after graduating. Nevertheless, she received recognition in professional circles, which can be seen from the fact that Wilhelm Kroll commissioned her to write an article about the speaker Lucius Licinius Crassus for Paulys Realenzyklopädie der Classical Antiquities . At that time, Häpke's health was already very weak. Shortly after reading the final proof of the article, she died on September 11, 1923 at the age of 52.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Curriculum vitae of Natalie Häpke in her dissertation C. Semproni Gracchi oratoris Romani fragmenta collecta et illustrata , p. 111 f.
  2. ^ A b Pauly's real encyclopedia of classical antiquity . Volume XIII, 1 (1926), col. 267.
  3. ↑ On Marie Häpke (1868 – after 1932) see her personal form at the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF / DIPF).
  4. ↑ Bremen, Old High School. Report on the 1907 school year . Bremen 1908, p. 8 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Bremen, Old High School. Report on the 1907 school year . Bremen 1908, p. 25 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ See the title page of her dissertation C. Semproni Gracchi oratoris Romani fragmenta collecta et illustrata .
personal data
SURNAME Häpke, Natalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1923