Peter Sonnenburg
Peter Sonnenburg (full name Ernst Ludwig Peter Sonnenburg , born August 23, 1859 in Bonn ; † May 27, 1944 in Fürstenau bei Höxter ) was a German classical philologist who worked as a grammar school teacher in the Rhineland and as a professor of classical philology (especially Latin) worked at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster (1898–1928).
Life
Peter Sonnenburg, the son of the high school teacher Carl Ludwig Adolph Sonnenburg (1820–1888 or later) from Breslau and Maria Elisabeth born. Brohl, received his first lessons from his father and then attended high school in Bonn for nine years. In autumn 1877 he went to the University of Bonn , where he studied classical philology, German and archeology . Among his academic teachers were Franz Bücheler , Hermann Usener and Wilhelm Wilmann whose philological or Germanistischem seminar Sonnenburg belonged to several semesters. He also took part in lectures and exercises by Professors Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz and Arnold Dietrich Schaefer as well as private lecturers Adolf Furtwängler and Friedrich Leo .
After his doctorate (1882) and the teaching examination, Sonnenburg entered the preparatory service for higher education. He completed the probationary year (1882/1883) at the Royal High School in Bonn and from April 11, 1883 at the Progymnasium in Linz am Rhein . He then worked as a scientific assistant teacher at various grammar schools in the Rhineland: from October 1, 1883 at the grammar school in Emmerich , from April 1884 at the grammar school Thomaeum in Kempen and from autumn 1884 at the grammar school in Mönchengladbach .
Finally he returned to the Royal High School in Bonn, where his colleagues included not only his father, but also his brother Ludwig Sonnenburg (1861 – after 1897) and his college friend Anton Elter , who was appointed professor at the University of Czernowitz in 1885. On May 29, 1887, Peter Sonnenburg was given a permanent position as a full teacher at the Bonn grammar school. He joined the Society of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland and worked there as a librarian until 1898.
In 1898, Sonnenburg was appointed full professor of classical philology at the Theological and Philosophical Academy in Münster , where he succeeded Peter Langen . In the academic year 1901/1902, Sonnenburg was the rector's office, immediately before the academy was promoted to university. In the academic year 1903/1904 he was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Natural Sciences. He turned down a call to the University of Bonn to succeed his teacher Bücheler (1906). In 1913 he received the title of Privy Councilor .
Even after reaching the age limit (1924), Sonnenburg continued to work by order of the minister. His retirement, which was postponed to March 31, 1926, was delayed at the request of the faculty until the end of the winter semester 1927/28. Even after his retirement in March 1928 , Sonnenburg continued to offer courses (as part of a Latin Society , i.e. as a reading exercise), most recently in the winter semester of 1939/40 together with his chair successor Franz Beckmann .
During the four decades of his teaching activity in Münster, Sonnenburg supervised 40 doctoral theses, most of them in Latin (most recently in 1927). Only Severin Daniel ( on the origin and development of the Argonauts and Medeasage , 1920) and Franz Middelmann ( Greek world and language in Plautus' comedies , 1938) wrote their works in German.
Fonts (selection)
- De Menaechmis Plautina retractata libellus . Bonn 1882 (dissertation, with curriculum vitae)
- Comments on Notker's adaptation of Boethius . Bonn 1887 (school program)
- with Ferdinand August Schmidt: Guide through the Beethoven House in Bonn . Bonn 1895
- Alexandrinae aetatis poetarum carmina in scholarum usum . Munster 1909
- Article Maccius (T. Maccius Plautus). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, Col. 95-126.
literature
- Max Wegner : Antiquity . In: Heinz Dollinger (ed.): The University of Münster 1780–1980 , Münster 1980. pp. 415–419.
- Christin Schulte: The Institute for Classical Studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster 1914–1958. Continuities and discontinuities in professorial appointments and academic operations . Dissertation, Münster 2017 ( digitized version ), pp. 23–24.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Message from the Bonn City Archives from October 9, 2010 based on a newspaper report: Bonner Rundschau from May 26, 1956
First chair: Hermann Ludwig Nadermann (1821–1853) | Ferdinand Deycks (1843–1867) | Peter Langen (1868–1897) | Peter Sonnenburg (1898–1928) | Franz Beckmann (1931–1963) | Hermann Tränkle (1963–1972) | Christian Gnilka (1972-2002) | Christine Schmitz (since 2002)
Second chair: Franz Winiewski (1838–1874) | Johann Matthias Stahl (1874–1906) | Wilhelm Kroll (1906–1913) | Richard Wünsch (1913–1915) | Hermann Schöne (1916–1935) | Walter Eberhardt (1937–1946) | Friedrich Mehmel (1947–1951) | Richard Harder (1952–1957) | Gerhard Müller (1958–1962) | Martin Sicherheitsl (1963–1982) | Wolfgang Huebner (1986-2004) | Alexander Arweiler (since 2004)
Third chair (until 1918 extraordinary): Franz Ignaz Schwerdt (1861–1868) | Adalbert Parmet (1869–1898) | Carl Hosius (1897–1906) | Ludwig Radermacher (1906–1909) | Karl Münscher (1909–1936) | Rudolf Güngerich (1951–1953) | Hermann Kleinknecht (1953–1960) | Heinrich Dörrie (1961–1980) | Hermann Wankel (1981–1991) | Adolf Köhnken (1992–2002) | Christian Pietsch (since 2003)
Fourth chair: Otto Hiltbrunner (1962–1979)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sonnenburg, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sonnenburg, Peter Ernst Ludwig; Sonnenburg, Peter EL; Sonnenburg, Peter E .; Sonnenburg, Ernst Ludwig Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1944 |
| Place of death | Fürstenau near Höxter |