Philipp Kohlmann

Kaspar Philipp Kohlmann (born November 24, 1842 in Horn near Bremen ; † August 7, 1889 in Emden ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher .

biography

Philipp Kohlmann was the son of pastor Johann Melchior Kohlmann and his wife Karoline geb. from Lingen. He attended the Bremen grammar school and after graduating in autumn 1861 began studying classical philology and theology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . Under the influence of his teacher Conrad Bursian , he turned entirely to philology and archeology . In the summer semester of 1864 he moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he was particularly influenced by Otto Jahn , Hermann Usener and Arnold Dietrich Schaefer . On June 30, 1866, Kohlmann received his doctorate from Schaefer with a dissertation on the 4th book by the travel writer Pausanias . On behalf of Usener, he stayed in Paris in 1867 to sift through the manuscripts of the historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the Bibliothèque nationale de France . In addition, he collected material for his planned Statius edition. Through the mediation of Otto Jahn, he was able to start his probationary year at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (Posen) (at that time under the direction of Julius Sommerbrodt ) at Easter 1867 . In Poznan he married his wife Minna Ditmar , whom he survived. In the fall of 1875 Kohlmann was appointed to the (Wilhelms-) Gymnasium Emden , where he taught until his death. In 1881 he was promoted to second senior teacher . In October 1887 he was given the character of high school professor .

Kohlmann taught Latin, Greek, history, German and geography in Emden. One of his students was Eduard Norden , who, under the influence of his teaching, decided to study classical philology. In addition to school operations, Kohlmann continued to do research: he published numerous smaller essays and school programs on the textual criticism of Statius and also prepared a two-volume critical edition, which, however, remained unfinished due to his death. His materials went to the Bonn University Archives, where they were lost in World War II.

The son Wilhelm Kohlmann , born in Posen in 1875, graduated from high school in Emden and became a high school teacher in Bremen .

Scientific activity

To Pausanias:

• 1866: Quaestiones messeniacae

To Statius:

• 1873: New Scholien on Thebais des Statius, edited from a Paris manuscript. Program of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Posen, Calvary, Berlin
• 1874: Contributions to the criticism of the Statiusscholien. Philologus, Vol. 33, pp. 128-138
• 1875: On the Achilles of Statius. In: RhM. New series Vol. 30, pp. 319, 475-476, 634-636
• 1876: The Parisian manuscripts of Achilles des Statius . Philologus, Vol. 34, pp. 474-496
• 1876: On the Achilles of Statius . Philologus, Vol. 34, pp. 569-571
• 1876: The inscription of Othryades with the Scholius scholiast. Rheinisches Museum für Philologie , New Series, Vol. 31, pp. 302–304
• 1879: Achilles. Teubner, Leipzig
• 1884: Thebais. Teubner, Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kössler's teachers' dictionary (GEB) (PDF file; 8.94 MB)

literature

• Wilt Aden Schröder : Kohlmann, Kaspar Philipp . In: Biographical Lexicon for East Frisia. Volume 3, 2001, pp. 244–246 (with list of publications and references)