Otto Stahlin

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Otto Stählin (born January 22, 1868 in Reutti , † June 14, 1949 in Erlangen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Since he learned to read from his grandmother as a small child, he attended elementary school at an early age and Latin school at the age of nine. He then went to school in Öttingen for two years , and the last four grammar school classes he went through in Augsburg at the grammar school near St. Anna . After graduating from high school in 1885, he began studying in Erlangen , but for health reasons took a semester off in winter, which he spent with his mother in Davos . In the summer of 1886 he finally began again to study theology and classical philology. In Erlangen he joined the student union Uttenruthia in the Schwarzburgbund in 1886 . As a student of August Luchs and Iwan von Müller , he concentrated on studying philology and spent the academic year 1887/88 in Munich , where he was the youngest and best of all 39 participants to pass the state examination. Although he then returned to Erlangen to devote himself to theology, his former teachers were able to persuade him to do a scientific work with which he received his doctorate on December 2, 1889: Observationes criticae in Clementem Alexandrinum . Only then did he successfully complete his theology studies in August 1890.

Stählin spent the years up to 1894 in military service, as an inspector at St. Anna and on trips to Italy, Greece and Asia Minor, which were made possible by a government travel grant. In August 1894 he was appointed high school teacher and Adolf Harnack commissioned him in the spring of 1895 to publish the writings of Clement of Alexandria . In addition to his school lessons, he therefore spent some time in the National Library in Paris and in many Italian libraries in order to examine the Greek manuscripts in which Clement's works were contained. In autumn 1902 he was transferred to the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich , where the enormous workload severely impaired his examinations. Having access to valuable information from the local state library , he was nevertheless able to complete the first two volumes of the Clemens edition in 1905 and 1906.

As a result, Stählin was appointed full professor of Classical Philology and Education at the University of Würzburg in the autumn of 1908 , where he completed the third volume in 1909, but had to put the remaining register volume behind his other work. In 1913 he was appointed professor of classical philology and high school education and professor of classical philology in Erlangen, which he accepted.

After the outbreak of World War I , Stählin volunteered as a first lieutenant and later as a captain in the army service in Kösching and Sennelager and received the Iron Cross, 2nd class . He was a co-signer of the declaration of the university professors of the German Reich for Prussian militarism of October 23, 1914. In autumn 1916 he was transferred to Erlangen in order to combine his academic teaching activities with his military tasks until the end of the war.

In the difficult time of inflation, Stählin was rector of the University of Erlangen in the academic year 1921/22 and in 1925 the organizer and first chairman of the 55th assembly of German philologists and school men with more than 1000 participants. He got involved socially, also in the form of supporting the German youth movement , until Adolf Harnack warned him to complete the Clemens edition. With his voluntary retirement on April 1, 1935, he received the necessary peace to finish work on the register tape as early as 1936. In 1940 he was elected a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Although he retired in 1935, he remained a full professor until his death.

In the 1930s, Stählin organized several trips to Greece (Hellas trips for teachers and students in German high schools) together with the manufacturer Oskar Mey , who generously supported the financing. The grammar school teacher Viktor Gebhard reported on one of these trips in 1932: After several days by ship with landings in Carthage , Syracuse , Malta and Leptis Magna , the tour in Greece ran from Nafplio via Epidaurus to Mycenae , Tiryns , Athens and Delphi . The trip with over 375 participants lasted a little over two weeks, from March 29 to April 15, 1932.

Due to the early death of his youngest son in 1944, an eye disease and arteriosclerosis , Stählin's vitality was greatly weakened. After a difficult last year of life, he was brought to the clinic with an aneurysm in June 1949 and died there of pneumonia.

family

Otto Stählin came from an old family of pastors and scholars. He was the son of the evangelical pastor and India missionary Wilhelm Stählin (1831–1886) and his wife Sophie geb. Houses. His paternal grandparents were Pastor Martin Stählin (1781–1855) and his wife Ida Brack (1796–1885), whose 14 children also included the Bavarian Consistorial President Adolf von Stählin and the Superior of Neuendettelsau Therese Stählin . Otto's younger brother was the Lutheran theologian and Bishop Wilhelm Stählin (1883–1975).

Stählin had been married to Anna Seiler, a granddaughter of Heinrich Rankes , since April 4, 1899 , with whom he had three sons and two daughters: Gustav (1900–1985), professor of theology, Adolf (1901–1992), professor at the agricultural college , Johannes (1913–1944), lawyer who died in northern France in August 1944, Sophie (* 1903), doctor, and Agnes (1919–1987), classical philologist.

Honors

The theological faculty of the University of Erlangen awarded Stählin an honorary doctorate in theology in 1927 , and on the occasion of the bicentenary of the University of Erlangen on November 4, 1943, Privy Councilor Otto Stählin was made an honorary senator.

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • Gerhard Gessner (ed.): The Stählin family from Memmingen . German family archive. Vol. 11, Degener, 1959.
  • Olaf Willett: Social History Erlanger Professors 1743–1933 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3525351615 .

Web links

Wikisource: Declaration by the university professors of the German Reich  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ June 17, 1949. In: Gnomon 21 (1949), p. 186.
  2. ↑ Olaf Willett: Social History Erlanger Professors 1743-1933 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3525351615 , p. 134.
  3. ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 136, no. 3084.
  4. ^ Stefan Rebenich, Theodor Mommsen, Adolf von Harnack: Theodor Mommsen and Adolf Harnack: Science and politics in Berlin at the end of the 19th century . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3110150794 .
  5. Jump up to the post on October 1, 1908; see list of people and courses SS 1949, p. 13.
  6. ^ Marita von Cieminski: Karl Praechter - estate of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle. I correspondence . Entry "Otto Stählin". March 25, 2010.
    Obtaining the Classical Philology Seminar at the University: Speech given at the celebration of its 150th anniversary on December 17, 1927 . Verlag von Palm & Enke, 1928, p. 28.
  7. ^ Declaration by the university professors of the German Reich = Declaration of the professors des universités et des écoles supérieures de l'Empire allemand Berlin, October 23, 1914 . Klokow, Berlin, October 23, 1914 (pdf; 2.4 MB).
    Olaf Willett: Social History Erlanger Professors 1743–1933 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3525351615 , p. 388.
    Steffen Bruendel: Volksgemeinschaft or Volksstaat: The "Ideas of 1914" and the reorganization of Germany in the First World War . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3050037458 , p. 44.
  8. ^ (Pro) rectors / presidents of the Friedrich-Alexander-University . Archive of the Friedrich-Alexander University, accessed on September 10, 2015 ( archive version from July 27, 2012 ( Memento from July 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )).
    Basic questions of education and training in Plato and in the present. Speech given by Otto Stählin at the beginning of the rectorate of the Bavarian Friedrich-Alexanders-Universität Erlangen on November 4, 1921. Erlangen 1921 . Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography of the University of Erlangen.
  9. ↑ Olaf Willett: Social History Erlanger Professors 1743-1933 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3525351615 , p. 344.
  10. ↑ Gnomon. Critical journal for all of classical antiquity 11 (1935), p. 64.
  11. ↑ Prof. Dr. Otto Stahlin . Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  12. ↑ Directory of people and courses SS 1949, p. 13.
  13. ↑ Viktor Gebhard: Hellasfahrt 1932 . In: Das humanistische Gymnasium 43 (1932), pp. 210–212.
  14. ^ Gerhard Gessner (Ed.): The Stählin family from Memmingen . German family archive. Vol. 11., Degener, 1959, p. 226.
  15. ^ Gerhard Gessner (Ed.): The Stählin family from Memmingen . German family archive. Vol. 11, Degener, 1959, p. 227.
  16. ↑ Olaf Willett: Social History Erlanger Professors 1743-1933 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3525351615 , p. 265.
  17. ↑ Gnomon. Critical journal for all of classical antiquity 20 (1944), p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Stahlin, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutti
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1949
Place of death gain