Otto Maass

This article deals with the philologist Otto Maaß. For other people see Otto Maas .

Otto Maaß (born April 7, 1866 in Dorpat , † 1943 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German-Baltic philologist and grammar school teacher.

Life

Maaß was the son of the seminar director Dr. Maass. He attended high school in his hometown and studied German and Classical Philology at the University of Dorpat . He was an assistant teacher at the Dorpater Realschule (1888–1890), senior teacher for ancient languages ​​and German at the Annenschule (St. Petersburg) (1892–1895), senior teacher at the higher secondary school (= Oberrealschule) and at the teachers' seminar in Mitau in Kurland ( 1896-1902). With a doctoral thesis on Kleitarchos and Diodorus , he was awarded Dr. phil. PhD. St. Petersburg 1894. In 1901 he was appointed Imperial Russian Councilor and Knight. Senior teacher for ancient languages ​​and German at the Royal Lithuanian Provincial School in Tilsit (Easter 1903), for the same subjects at the (humanistic) St. Petri Pauli High School in Moscow (autumn 1902). He was appointed to the Herzog-Albrechts-Schule (Rastenburg) and joined Michaelis in 1907 as a senior teacher at the Evangelisch Stiftische Gymnasium Gütersloh .

In 1921 he returned to East Prussia as director of the Friedrichsschule Gumbinnen . In 1923 he became senior school councilor at the provincial school council in Königsberg. He was also a part-time lecturer in modern German literature at the Königsberg Commercial College , which awarded him the title of professor .

Fonts

• The educational ideals of the young Herder. A critical study. Lauter, Rastenburg 1906, OCLC 250343519 .
• Shakespeare reading in high school. Gütersloh 1911, OCLC 163466756
• Odysseus' wanderings in the Pontus. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1915, DNB 364981849 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Maaß in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto Maaß's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dissertation by Kleitarch and Diodor. A source investigation .
2. ↑ Koessler's Teaching Dictionary (GEB)
3. ^ Robert Albinus (ed.): Königsberg-Lexikon. City and surroundings. Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 (EA Leer 1985)