Paul Viereck (philologist)
Paul Viereck (born January 22, 1865 in Büchen , Duchy of Lauenburg; † February 9, 1944 in Wittenberge ) was a German classical philologist , epigraphist , papyrologist and high school teacher.
life and work
Paul Viereck, the son of a train station inspector, grew up in the Brandenburg city of Wittenberge and attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin, where he passed the school leaving examination on March 17, 1884. He then studied Classical Philology at the University of Göttingen with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . In 1888 he solved the university's award task, which consisted of an investigation of the use of Greek language in the political life of the Romans up to Emperor Tiberius . With the award publication Sermo Graecus quo senatus populusque Romanus magistratusque populi Romani usque ad Tiberii Caesaris aetatem in scriptis publicis usi sunt examinatur , Viereck was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . On July 27, 1889, he passed the teaching examination for the subjects Latin, Greek, history and Hebrew. In autumn he began his probationary year at the Köllnisches Gymnasium in Berlin.
After the probationary year, Viereck worked for several years as a scientific assistant teacher and gymnastics teacher at various Berlin high schools: At the Köllnischen Gymnasium (1890-1896), at the Leibniz-Gymnasium (1891-1893 and 1894-1895), at the Andreas Realgymnasium (1894-1895) and at the Gray Monastery high school (1895–1896). Viereck received his permanent position on April 1, 1896 as a senior teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin.
In the 1990s Viereck also continued his research. He published Greek documents from the Berlin Royal Museums (from 1892), an edition of Hermippus, dialogus de astrologia (Leipzig 1895, with Wilhelm Kroll ), a literary report on papyrology (1898) and several articles on epigraphy and administration of Egypt in magazines Hermes and Philologus .
On July 5, 1907, Viereck was appointed high school professor. A few months later he switched to the Kölln high school and finally to the high school at the Gray Monastery, where he was promoted to senior lecturer in 1925. On April 1, 1930 Viereck retired.
In addition to teaching at the grammar school, Viereck remained active in science throughout his life. He published numerous papyrus editions and historical treatises, including ostraka from Brussels and Berlin (Berlin 1922), papyri, ostraka and wax tablets from Philadelphia im Fayûm (Berlin 1926, with Friedrich Zucker ) and Philadelphia. The establishment of a Hellenistic military colony in Egypt (Leipzig 1928). He also got the revised version (Editio altera correctior) of the Historia Romana Appians (after Ludwig Mendelssohn ). First the second volume was published in 1905 by Teubner-Verlag in Leipzig, the first volume did not follow until 1939 (together with AG Roos ).
During the Second World War , Viereck's Berlin apartment and all of its work materials were destroyed in an air raid. Viereck survived but suffered a nervous breakdown. He spent the last months of his life in his parents' house in Wittenberge, where he died on February 9, 1944 at the age of 79.
Other fonts (selection)
- The Egyptian tax assessment commission in Roman times . In: Philologus. Journal for ancient literature and its reception , vol. 52 (1893), pp. 219–247.
- Report on the Greek papyrus documents (1899–1905) . Reisland, Leipzig 1907.
- Documents on Greco-Roman associations . In: Klio. Contributions to ancient history , Vol. 8 (1908), pp. 413-426.
- Greek and Greek demotic ostraca from the University and State Library of Strasbourg in Alsace . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1923.
literature
- Heinz card pouch : Paul Viereck. Bibliography . In: Aegyptus . Volume 20 (1940), pp. 334-341.
- Robert K. Sherk: Roman documents from the Greek East. Senatus Consulta and Epistulae to the Age of Augustus . Baltimore 1969.
- Carl Joachim Classen : On the teaching activity of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff in Göttingen (1883–1897) . In: Umberto Albini u. a .: Storia, poesia e pensiero nel mondo antico. Studi in onore di Marcello Gigante . Naples 1994, pp. 103–127 (on Viereck especially pp. 118f.)
Web links
- Literature by Paul Viereck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul Viereck's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Square, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Viereck, Georg Paul Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist, epigraphist, papyrologist and high school teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Books |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1944 |
| Place of death | Wittenberg |