Otto Crusius
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Otto Carl Friedrich Hermann Crusius (born December 20, 1857 in Hanover , † December 29, 1918 in Munich ) was a German classical philologist who held chairs at the universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg and Munich.
Life
Otto Crusius was the only child of the Hanoverian consistorial auditor Otto Carl Siegismund Crusius (1794–1861) and his second wife Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth born. Winkelmann (1825-1900). His paternal family list is with his ancestor Balthasar Crusius (1550-1630). After attending school in Hanover , he studied in Leipzig from 1875 to 1879, among others with Friedrich Ritschl and Otto Ribbeck , and received his doctorate there in 1879 with a thesis on Babrios . In 1880 Crusius became a senior teacher at the Royal High School in Dresden. In 1883 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig on Greek proverbs and in 1885 became a teacher at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig .
In 1886 Crusius went to Tübingen as professor and successor to Erwin Rohdes and in 1898, again as Rohdes successor, moved to Heidelberg University , and in 1903 to Munich University (successor to Wilhelm von Christ ). A bronze bust of Karl Baur is on display today in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Munich .
In the year he was called to Munich, Crusius was elected an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , followed in 1905 as a full member; In 1915 he became president of the academy. He was also a corresponding member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences and an honorary doctorate from the Universities of Dublin and Athens . In 1910 he received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art .
In 1889 Crusius became editor of the journal Philologus . Starting in 1909, he edited Friedrich Nietzsche's philological works for the Nietzsche Archive , succeeding Ernst Holzer, together with Wilhelm Nestle . In 1902 he published a biography of Erwin Rohde, who had dealt with, among other things, Greek fables and proverbs, Greek poetry and ancient music.
Crusius signed the appeal for the founding of the German Fatherland Party , a right-wing extremist group that formed in 1917 during World War I and that opposed peace negotiations and sought plebiscite military rule. He himself was a member of this party and author of war songs.
In 1885 he married Franziska von Bihl (1858–1939), with whom they had three children: Elisabeth (1886–1970), Otto Eduard (1892–1965) and Friedrich (1897–1941).
His estate is in the Bavarian State Library .
Fonts (selection)
A comprehensive list of Crusius' works with digital copies can be found on the Wikisource author's page .
- On the history of Greek religion. 1886.
- Investigations on Herondas. 1892.
- Friedrich Nietzsche : Unpublished information on literary history, rhetoric and rhythm. Edited by Otto Crusius. 1912.
literature
- Karl Preisendanz : Otto Crusius. In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde. Vol. 40, 1920, pp. 1-57 (digitized version ) .
- Rudolf Pfeiffer : Crusius, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 432 ( digitized version ).
- Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Giessen University Library, Giessen Electronic Library, 2008, preprint, p. 84, ( online )
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Crusius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of Otto Crusius's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1883 to summer semester 1886)
- The correspondence between Eduard Meyer and Otto Crusius (1885–1918) in the DFG project "Processing of important letters from the Eduard Meyer estate "
- Franz Brümmer's estate with a biographical report by Otto Crusius
- Otto Crusius in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- The estate of Otto Crusius in the Bavarian State Library (with a picture of the bust of Karl Baur )
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry of Otto Crusius at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 21, 2017.
- ↑ See the article on the party in the Historisches Lexikon Bayerns .
- ^ Catalog entry in the repertory
- ^ The Almanac of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences for the 150th Foundation Festival in 1909 contains a printed bibliography . Munich 1909, pp. 205–216 (digitized version ) .
First chair: David Christoph Seybold (1796–1804) | Karl Philipp Conz (1804–1827) | Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich panel (1827–1846) | Albert Schwegler (1847–1857) | Karl Hirzel (1857–1874) | Ernst von Herzog (1874–1902) | Gotthold Gundermann (1902–1921) | Otto Weinreich (1921–1954) | Hildebrecht Hommel (1955–1964) | Günther Wille (1965–1991) | Heinz Hofmann (1993–2009) | Anja Wolkenhauer (since 2010)
Second chair: Ernst Christian von Walz (1832–1857) | Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (1857–1878) | Erwin Rohde (1878–1886) | Otto Crusius (1886–1898) | Wilhelm Schmid (1898–1926) | Johannes Mewaldt (1927–1931) | Hans Herter (1932–1938) | Friedrich Focke (1939–1946) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1950–1968) Konrad Gaiser (1968–1988) | Thomas A. Szlezák (1990-2006) | Irmgard Männlein-Robert (since 2006)
Extraordinary professorship: Rudolf Herzog (1903–1909) | Adolf von Mess (1909–1916) | Otto Weinreich (1916–1918) | Friedrich Zucker (1918) | Friedrich Pfister (1918–1924) | Friedrich Focke (1925–1939)
Third chair: Ernst Zinn (1956–1978) | Ernst A. Schmidt (1979-2002)
Fourth chair: Konrad Müller (1963–1964) | Hartmut Erbse (1965–1968) | Richard Kannicht (1969–1997)
Fifth chair: Hubert Cancik (1974–2003) | Jürgen Leonhardt (since 2004) | Robert Kirstein (since 2018)
First chair: Friedrich Creuzer (1800–1845) | Leonhard Spengel (1841–1847) | Hermann Köchly (1864–1876) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1877–1886) | Erwin Rohde (1886–1898) | Otto Crusius (1898–1903) | Albrecht Dieterich (1903–1908) | Franz Boll (1908–1924) | Otto Regenbogen (1925–1935) | Hildebrecht Hommel (1937–1945) | Otto Regenbogen (1945–1959) | Franz Dirlmeier (1959–1970) | Herwig Görgemanns (1972–1997)
Second chair: August Boeckh (1807–1811) | Heinrich Voss (1809–1822) | Johann Christian Felix Bähr (1823–1872) | Uvo Hölscher (1962–1970) | Albrecht Dihle (1974–1989) | Glenn W. Most (1991-2001) | Jonas Grethlein (since 2008)
Third chair: Karl Ludwig Kayser (1863–1872) | Otto Ribbeck (1872–1877) | Fritz Schöll (1877–1918) | Otto Weinreich (1918–1921) | Karl Meister (1921–1949) | Viktor Pöschl (1950–1976) | Hubert Petersmann (1981-2001) | Gerrit Kloss (since 2003)
Fourth chair: Michael von Albrecht (1964–1999) | Jürgen Paul Schwindt (since 2000)
Chair of Papyrology: Dieter Hagedorn (1981–2001) | Andrea Jördens (since 2004)
First chair (Latin Philology): Friedrich Ast (1826–1841) | Franz Hocheder (1842–1844) | Ernst von Lasaulx (1844–1847) | Leonhard Spengel (1847–1880) | Eduard Wölfflin (1880–1905) | Friedrich Vollmer (1905–1923) | Johannes Stroux (1924–1935) | Rudolf Till (1938–1945) | Franz Egermann (1951 / 62–1970) | Werner Suerbaum (1970–2001) | Claudia Wiener (since 2003)
Second Chair (Greek Philology II): Friedrich Thiersch (1826–1859) | Wilhelm von Christ (1860–1903) | Otto Crusius (1903-1918) | Eduard Schwartz (1919–1929) | Rudolf Pfeiffer (1929–1937) | Franz Dirlmeier (1938–1945) | Rudolf Pfeiffer (1951–1957) | Kurt von Fritz (1958–1968) | Uvo Hölscher (1970–1982) | Hellmut Flashar (1982–1997) | Martin Hose (since 1997)
Third Chair (Greek Philology I): Conrad Bursian (1874–1883) | Rudolf Schöll (1885–1893) | Iwan von Müller (1893–1906) | Albert Rehm (1906–1936) | Richard Harder (1941–1945) | Friedrich Klingner (1947–1963) | Carl Becker (1963–1973) | Ernst Vogt (1975–1999) | Oliver Primavesi (since 2000)
Fourth Chair (Latin Philology): Karl von Prantl (1859–1888) | Carl Weyman (1905–1931) | Wilfried Stroh (1976-2005) | Therese Fuhrer (since 2013)
Professorship for Classical Philology / Subject Didactics: Karl Felix Halm (1856–1882) | Markus Janka (since 2007)
Professorship for Ancient Latin Philology: Niklas Holzberg (1988–2011)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Karl Theodor Ritter von Heigel |
President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1915 to 1918 |
Hugo Ritter von Seeliger |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crusius, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crusius, Otto Carl Friedrich Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1918 |
| Place of death | Munich |