Paul Koetschau

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Paul Koetschau (full name Karl Friedrich Constantin Paul Koetschau , born August 7, 1857 in Tonndorf near Weimar , † March 22, 1939 in Weimar) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.

Life

Paul Koetschau, the son of the elementary school teacher Otto Koetschau and Louise geb. Märten, attended elementary school in Tonndorf and from 1868 to 1877 the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar . From 1877 to 1881 he studied classical philology at the universities of Leipzig and Tübingen . He received inspiration above all from the ancient historian Alfred von Gutschmid (Tübingen) and from the Leipzig philologists Justus Hermann Lipsius and Ludwig Lange . Koetschau dedicated his dissertation on Cicero's speech In toga candida to the latter , with which he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . After passing the teaching examination (1881), Koetschau did military service until 1882.

From October 1, 1882, Koetschau worked in the school service of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , initially as a trial candidate at the grammar school in Jena , where he was appointed a full teacher at Easter 1884. On April 1, 1904, he was appointed director of the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Eisenach , where he was also the director of the Carl-Alexander-Bibliothek . On October 1, 1908, he switched to the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium Weimar as director, where he worked until his retirement (1923). Koetschau was widely recognized for his educational and scientific work. The Academy of Non-Profit Sciences in Erfurt elected him on May 22, 1905 as a corresponding member. In 1912 he was appointed councilor .

Scientific work

Koetschau's main research areas were the writings of the church father Origen . He dealt intensively with the textual criticism and the history of transmission of these writings, edited a selection in German translation and participated in the Origen edition of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In retirement he also did family research. His genealogical estate is in the Leipzig State Archive (holdings 21949).

Publications (selection)

  • De M. Tullii Ciceronis oratione in toga candida habita . Leipzig 1880 (dissertation)
  • The text transmission of the Books of Origines against Celsus in the manuscripts of this work and the Philokalia. Prolegomena to a critical issue . Leipzig 1889
  • Gregorios Thaumaturgos speech of thanks to Origines, as an attachment the letter of Origen to Gregorios Thaumaturgos . Freiburg 1894
  • Origen's works. Volume 1: The Scriptures of Martyrdom. Book I – IV against Celsus . Published on behalf of the Church Fathers Commission of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Leipzig 1899
  • Origen's works. Volume 2: Book V – VIII against Celsus . Published on behalf of the Church Fathers Commission of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Leipzig 1899
  • Critical remarks on my edition of Origen's Exhortatio, contra Celsum, de oratione. Reply to the criticism published by Paul Wendland in the Göttingische Gelehrten Werbung 1899 No. 4 . Leipzig 1899
  • Contributions to the textual criticism of Origen's Commentary on John . Leipzig 1905
  • Origen's works. Volume 5: De Principiis / Περὶ Ἀρχῶν . Published on behalf of the Church Fathers Commission of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Leipzig 1913
  • Origen's selected writings . Translated from the Greek by Paul Koetschau. Three volumes, Munich 1926–1927 ( Library of the Church Fathers )

literature

  • Report on the school year 1904/1905 . In: Annual report on the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Eisenach from Easter 1904 to Easter 1905 . Eisenach 1905, p. 27
  • School news . In: Annual report on the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar from Easter 1908 to Easter 1909 . Weimar 1909, p. 9
  • Kürschner's German literature calendar for 1922 . Leipzig 1922, p. 267
  • The register of the University of Leipzig: The years 1867 to 1884 . Leipzig 2009, p. 250

Web links

Wikisource: Paul Koetschau  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of death according to information from the Weimar City Archives, March 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Koetschau, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koetschau, Karl Friedrich Constantin Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Tonndorf (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1939
Place of death Weimar