Paul Graffunder
Paul Graffunder (born September 26, 1857 in Pielburg , † July 28, 1914 in Berlin ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.
Life
Paul Graffunder came from Pielburg in Pomerania , later his family moved to Berlin. There he attended the Wilhelms-Gymnasium . In 1872 he moved to the municipal grammar school in Stettin , where he passed his school leaving examination in 1873. He then studied Classical Philology and History at the University of Tübingen . After one semester he moved to the Berlin University , where he found a broader spectrum of classical studies. He attended courses with the archaeologist Ernst Curtius , the Egyptologist Richard Lepsius , the epigraphist Emil Huebner and the philosophers Hermann Lotze , Friedrich Paulsen and Eduard Zeller . He was particularly impressed by the philologists Adolf Kirchhoff and Johannes Vahlen , who accepted him into the philological seminar and stimulated his dissertation, in which Graffunder dealt with the textual history of the Greek speakers Antiphon , Deinarchus and Lykurgos of Athens . In December 1882 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD .
After graduating, Graffunder taught at various Berlin high schools, from 1890 to 1914 at the Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium in Schöneberg near Berlin. In addition to the school service, he was active in research. In the 1890s he dealt with Old German poetry, especially with the Middle Low German translations of Cato's writings. From around 1900 he turned to archeology . For the year 1906/1907 he received the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute and stayed in Italy. In 1908 he joined the Archaeological Society in Berlin . On behalf of Wilhelm Kroll , he wrote several articles for the real encyclopedia of classical antiquity , including a 54 column long one on the city of Rome .
After his death during the summer vacation in 1914, his friend Christian Hülsen took his place in the prima class' Greek and history classes.
literature
- De Crippsiano et Oxoniensi Antiphontis Dinarchi Lycurgi codicibu s. Berlin 1882 (dissertation, with curriculum vitae after p. 89)
- Archaeological Society of Berlin: Annual report for 1914 . P. 3
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Graffunder, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Graffunder, Paul Leonhard Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and high school teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pielburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1914 |
| Place of death | Berlin |