Otto Güthling

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Otto Güthling (born February 23, 1853 in Minden ; † August 4, 1931 in Breslau ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher. He is known as a translator of numerous works by ancient authors in Reclam's Universal Library and as an editor of dictionaries.

life and work

Otto Güthling was the older son of the future high school director Carl Eduard Güthling (1824–1895). He grew up first in Minden, where his father was a senior teacher, later in Bunzlau (1862–1865), Lauban (1865–1867) and Liegnitz (from 1867), where his father was a senior teacher or director. Otto Güthling attended the grammar schools there from 1863 to 1871. After graduation on February 15, 1871, he studied Classical Philology, German Studies and Philosophy at the University of Göttingen , where he attended lectures and exercises with Ernst von Leutsch , Hermann Lotze , Albrecht Ritschl , Hermann Sauppe and Kurt Wachsmuth . There he became a member of the Göttingen Wingolf in 1871 . On May 8, 1875, Güthling passed the teaching examination in Latin and Greek for the lower secondary and religion for the fourth. From April 8, 1875, he worked as a test candidate at the Liegnitzer Gymnasium. On April 24, 1876, he was appointed as an extra-budgetary assistant teacher.

During this time, Güthling worked intensively on his academic and school qualifications. On March 2, in a supplementary examination in Breslau, he acquired the license to teach Latin and Greek for the upper secondary and in German for the fourth. With this he had achieved employability in the Prussian school service. On August 31, 1877 Güthling was also at the University of Rostock with a dissertation on Virgil's Aeneid Dr. phil. PhD .

On October 1, 1877 Güthling was employed as a full teacher at the Progymnasium in Gartz an der Oder. In two further supplementary exams he acquired the license to teach religion for the lower secondary (December 20, 1878) and in Latin and Greek for the upper prima (July 2, 1880). On October 1, 1884 Otto Güthling returned to the secondary school in Liegnitz, where his father was still the headmaster. His successor was Wilhelm Gemoll in 1889 . Otto Güthling continued his career uninterruptedly in Liegnitz and received rich recognition over the years: on April 1, 1891, he was promoted to senior teacher, on December 18, 1894, was appointed high school professor and on December 2, 1898 to the rank of Councilor II. Class recorded. On September 30, 1909, he received the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class. On July 1, 1912, he retired.

In Liegnitz, Güthling found the opportunity to do scientific work in addition to his lessons. For the Teubner publishing house he participated in the Ovid edition by Heinrich Stephan Sedlmayer and Anton Zingerle , whose third volume he edited in 1884; he also produced a Virgil edition (1886). On behalf of the Reclam Verlag ( Reclams Universal-Bibliothek ), Güthling published numerous translations of Greek and Roman authors from the 1880s, some in his own translation, some as an adaptation of an older one. These included writings by the Attic speakers Lycurgus and Isocrates , the historians Herodotus , Xenophon and Thucydides , the tragedians Aeschylus and Sophocles , the philosopher Plato , the specialist writer Xenophon and the sophist Plutarch as well as the Roman poets Terence , Lucretius and Virgil and the historian Titus Livius , Cornelius Nepos and Tacitus .

Güthling's name is linked in a special way to the dictionaries he published. His first project in this regard was the revision of a lexicon on Xenophons Memorabilia (1896, 3rd edition). He was commissioned by the Langenscheidt publishing house in Berlin to create dictionaries for the Greek and Latin languages together with Hermann Menge . While Quantity edited the Greek-German and Latin-German dictionary, Güthling took over the German-Greek and German-Latin part. Quantity and Güthling created a pocket dictionary and two large dictionaries, which remained in use long after their first publication and are known as "Quantity-Güthling" after their editors.

Fonts (selection)

  • Adnotationes ad Vergilii Aeneidem . Liegnitz 1877 (Rostock dissertation)
  • P. Ovidii Nasonis Fasti, Tristium libri, Ibis, Epistulae ex Ponto, Halieutica, Fragmenta . Leipzig 1884 ( P. Ovidi Nasonis opera ediderunt H. St. Sedlmayer; A. Zingerle; O. Güthling . Volume 3)
  • Curae Vergilianae . Liegnitz 1886 (school program)
  • P. Vergili Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneid. Recognovit Otto Güthling . Two volumes, Leipzig 1886
  • Xenophons declared Agesilaos for school use . Leipzig 1888
  • Explanatory Notes on Arrian's Cynegeticus . Liegnitz 1902 (school program)
  • Virgil's Aeneide: Text edition for school use . Leipzig / Berlin 1905
  • Silesian hymn poet . Liegnitz 1908 (school program)
  • Langenscheidt's large dictionary of Greek and German. Part 2: German – Greek . Berlin 1910. 5th edition, Berlin 1968
  • Langenscheidt's pocket dictionary of the Greek and German languages. Part 2: German – Greek . Berlin 1911. 25th edition, Berlin 1969
  • Langenscheidt's large dictionary of Latin and German. Part 2: German – Latin . Berlin 1918. 14th edition, Berlin 1985
  • Treasure of quotes from Sophocles and Euripides . Berlin 1922
Editing

literature

  • Norbert Thiel: Güthling, Otto . In: Hubert Unverricht (Hrsg.): Liegnitzer Lebensbilder of the city and district. Volume 1: A-L . Hofheim / Taunus 2001, pp. 221-223

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Güthling  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Year 2007. p. 41.
personal data
SURNAME Güthling, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Güthling, August Heinrich Otto; Otto, Ernst (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1931
Place of death Wroclaw