Paul Wagler

Paul Wagler (born June 5, 1861 in Gießmannsdorf near Luckau , † March 19, 1923 in Wurzen ) was a German classical philologist . He taught at the Gymnasium in Wurzen from 1887 to 1923.

Life

Paul Wagler was the son of pastor Eduard Wagler and Thecla geb. from Müller. His younger brother Ludwig Wagler later became city councilor, police director of Leipzig and chairman of the local Museum of Ethnology; he became known, among other things, as a Kaspar Hauser researcher.

Paul Wagler attended the district school in Dresden-Friedrichstadt until Easter 1871 and the Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden from Easter 1871 to Easter 1879 . Although a native of Brandenburg and thus a Prussian, he acquired Saxon citizenship after graduating and studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig . Otto Ribbeck , who referred him to Roman poetry, influenced him in particular from his academic teachers . 1883 Wagler was with him with a dissertation on the pseudo Virgil's didactic poem Aetna Dr. phil. PhD . On October 30, 1884 he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post and received the license to teach in the subjects of Latin, German, Greek, history and geography.

After military service as a one-year volunteer (1884/85), the probationary year at the grammar school in Zwickau (October 1, 1885 to September 30, 1886) and the vicariate at the grammar school in Bautzen (October 1, 1886 to March 31, 1887) Wagler became on April 1, 1887 employed as a non-permanent teacher at the high school in Wurzen . Wagler stayed there until the end of his life. On June 1, 1891, he was given a permanent position as a senior teacher. On September 28, 1905, he received the title of professor, on May 15, 1916, he was appointed to the faculty and on August 23, 1920 to the senior lecturer. He died on March 19, 1923 at the age of 61.

Wagler's research focus was on ancient vegetation, which he examined from the perspective of cultural history and religious studies. He published a monograph on the oak in old and new times (two parts, 1891) and several articles for Paulys Realenzyklopädie der classical antiquity (RE I – III, 1, 1893–1897). During his time as a senior teacher, Wagler hardly got any scientific work. But he took part in a textbook project by his colleague Hermann Steuding .

Fonts (selection)

• De Aetna poemate quaestiones criticae . Berlin 1884 (dissertation, Leipzig)
• The oak in old and new times. A mythological-cultural-historical study. First part . Wurzen 1891 (school program)
• The oak in old and new times. A mythological-cultural-historical study. Part two . Berlin 1891 ( Berlin Studies for Classical Philology and Archeology 13.2)

literature

• Program of the Bautzen high school . Bautzen 1887, p. 6
• Ecce the Crucians 1923-24 . Dresden 1924, p. 5
• Announcements from the Wurzener history and antiquity association . Year 1928, p. 162

Web links

Wikisource: Paul Wagler  - Sources and full texts