Theodor Bergk
Theodor Bergk (full name Wilhelm Theodor von Bergk , born May 22, 1812 in Leipzig , † July 20, 1881 in Ragaz , Switzerland ) was a well-known German classical philologist . He was a member of the Committee of Seventeen of the Frankfurt National Assembly .
Life
Bergk was born in Leipzig as the son of the translator and popular philosopher Johann Adam Bergk . It was there that he attended the humanistic Thomas School . From 1830 to 1834 studied classical philology with Gottfried Hermann at the University of Leipzig . In 1836 he became a teacher at the Latin secondary school in Halle. From 1838 he taught at the Carolinum grammar school in Neustrelitz and under August Meineke at the Joachimsthal grammar school in Berlin. In 1840 he switched to the high school in Kassel .
In 1842, he succeeded Karl Friedrich Hermann as a full professor of classical philology at the University of Marburg . In 1852 he was offered a call to Freiburg , where he also became senior librarian of the university library from 1855 . Another call followed in 1857 to Halle . For health reasons he retired in 1869 and moved to Bonn . Bergk made literary efforts to help the Greek poets. His main works were Poetae lyrici graeci and History of Greek Literature (1872). He was also responsible for the journal for antiquity for several years . He sat down u. a. critically deal with Theodor Mommsen .
From 1847 to 1849 he was a moderately liberal representative of the University of Marburg in the Kurhessische estates assembly . In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . From 1848 to 1849 he was a member of the Committee of Seventeen of the Bundestag in Frankfurt.
From 1844 he was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome . In 1845 he became a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1860, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences accepted him as a full member and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen as a corresponding member (from 1876 external member). In 1843 he was elected chairman of the Philologists' Assembly in Kassel. In 1867 he took over the vice-presidency of the Halle Philologists' Assembly. He was also a member of the examination committee in Halle.
He died in 1881 in the spa town of Ragaz.
Publications (selection)
- Commentatio de Sophoclis fragmentis. Staritz, Leipzig 1833.
- Commentationes de reliquiis comoediae Atticae antiquae. Koehler, Leipzig 1838.
- Poetae lyrici graeci. Teubner, Leipzig 1843 ( archive.org ).
- Anthologia lyrica. Teubner, Leipzig 1853–1868.
- Greek literary history. 4 volumes and registers. Weidmann, Berlin 1872-1894.
- Augusti rerum a se gestarum indicem. Dieterich, Göttingen 1873.
- Inscriptions from Roman slingshots. Teubner, Leipzig 1876 ( digitized version ).
- On the history and topography of the Rhineland in Roman times. Teubner, Leipzig 1882.
- Aristophanes . Teubner, Leipzig 1907.
literature
- Ewald Grothe (ed.): The members of the Electoral Hessian Estates Assemblies 1830–1866. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 13 = Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse . Vol. 43). Historical Commission for Hessen, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-942225-33-5 , number KSV-034.
- Franz Gundlach : Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis 1527-1910 . Marburg 1927, pp. 337-338.
- Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 70.
- Rudolf Peppmüller : Bergk, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 381-383.
Web links
- Literature by and about Theodor Bergk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Theodor Bergk in the Internet Archive
- Bergk, Wilhelm Theodor. Hessian biography. (As of March 1, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
First Chair (1892–1904 Extraordinariat): Friedrich Creuzer (1802–1804) | Christoph Rommel (1804–1810) | Karl Franz Christian Wagner (1810–1833) | Karl Friedrich Hermann (1832–1842) | Theodor Bergk (1842–1852) | Karl Friedrich Weber (1852–1861) | Leopold Schmidt (1863-1892) | Wilhelm Schulze (1892–1895) | Albrecht Dieterich (1895–1897) | Georg Wentzel (1902–1903) | Karl Kalbfleisch (1903–1913) | Paul Friedländer (1920–1932) | Karl Deichgräber (1935–1938) | Friedrich Müller (1943–1968) | Wolfgang Kullmann (1964–1975) | Otto Lendle (1977–1991) | Arbogast Schmitt (1991-2008) | Sabine Föllinger (since 2011)
Second chair: Carl Julius Caesar (1863–1886) | Theodor Birt (1886–1921) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1922–1936) | Hellfried Dahlmann (1936–1953) | Carl Becker (1955–1963) | Walter Wimmel (1963–1987) | Joachim Adamietz (1988–1996) | Jürgen Leonhardt (1997-2005) | Gregor Vogt-Spira (since 2006)
Third chair: Georg Wissowa (1890–1895) | Ernst Maass (1895-1924)
First ordinariate: Karl Zell (1821–1836) | Joseph Anselm Feuerbach (1836–1851) | Theodor Bergk (1852–1857) | Johannes Vahlen (1858) | Franz Bücheler (1858–1866) | Wilhelm Brambach (1866–1872) | Otto Keller (1872–1875) | Otto Hense (1876–1909) | Eduard Schwartz (1909–1913) | Otto Immisch (1914–1930) | Eduard Fraenkel (1931–1933) | Hans Oppermann (1935–1941) | Karl Büchner (1943–1976) | Eckard Lefèvre (1977-2003) | Therese Fuhrer (2004–2008) | Wolfgang Kofler (2009–2012) | Stefan Tilg (since 2014)
Second full professorship: Anton Baumstark (1836–1872) | Bernhard Schmidt (1872–1911) | Richard Reitzenstein (1911–1914) | Alfred Körte (1914–1917) | Ludwig Deubner (1917–1927) | Rudolf Pfeiffer (1927–1929) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1929–1934) | Hans Bogner (1936–1941) | Hermann Gundert (1944–1974) | Wolfgang Kullmann (1975–1996) | Bernhard Zimmermann (since 1997)
First chair: August Seidler (1816–1824) | Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier (1825–1855) | Theodor Bergk (1857–1869) | Heinrich Keil (1869–1894) | Georg Wissowa (1895–1924) | Ernst Diehl (1925–1937) | Franz Altheim (1937–1948) | Werner Peek (1951–1969) | Joachim Ebert (1983–1995) | Michael Hillgruber (since 1995)
Second chair: Abraham Gottlieb Raabe (1817–1845) | Wilhelm Dittenberger (1874–1906) | Otto Kern (1907–1931) | Paul Friedländer (1932–1935) | Erich Reitzenstein (1937–1958) | Berthold Häsler (1960–1974) | Wolfgang Kirsch (1986–1993) | Rainer Jakobi (since 1993)
Third chair: Karl Christian Reisig (1824–1829) | Gottfried Bernhardy (1829–1875) | Eduard Hiller (1876-1891) | Friedrich Blass (1892–1907) | Karl Praechter (1907–1927)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergk, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bergk, Theodorus; Bergk, Wilhelm Theodor; Bergkius, Theodorus; Bergk, Theodor von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1881 |
| Place of death | Bad Ragaz |