Richard Bergmann (philologist)

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Richard Bergmann (full name Wilhelm Richard Bergmann , born April 17, 1821 in Ober-Neusulza , Thuringia , † December 24, 1870 in Palermo , Sicily ) was a German epigraphist and high school teacher.

life and work

Bergmann attended the Pforta state school from 1834 and studied classical philology at the University of Jena from the summer semester of 1841 . In the winter semester of 1841/1842 he moved to the Berlin University , where he was particularly influenced by August Boeckh and Karl Gottlob Zumpt . On 26 January 1846 he was charged with a study of the Roman province of Asia Dr. phil. PhD . His opponents were Karl Bernhard Stark , Maximilian Sengebusch (1820–1881) and Adolf Kirchhoff . After the probationary year (1846/1847) Bergmann taught as an assistant teacher at the Friedrichswerder Gymnasium in Berlin.

In 1850 he moved to Luckau , where he was temporarily in charge of the director and sub-director. He also taught the prima and gave Latin, Greek, German and history in the secondary. On October 1, 1852, he went to Neuruppin as a substitute teacher and on April 1, 1853 as Vice-Rector (1855, Vice-Rector) at the United Old and New Town High School in Brandenburg an der Havel . During the years in Brandenburg, Bergmann took several vacations, some of which he used for research trips to the Mediterranean. He published inscriptions from Italy and Greece.

For health reasons, he withdrew from school on May 11, 1870, initially took a leave of absence and then, when there was no improvement in sight, applied for his retirement, which was granted to him on April 1, 1871. Bergmann spent the summer in Reichenhall , in the autumn he went to Italy, where he succumbed to his ailment on Christmas Eve 1870.

Bergmann's main research areas were the Greek inscriptions from Italy and Greece. In addition to his inscription editions and studies on ancient administrative history, he also devoted himself to Greek manuscript studies. In the fall of 1865, he spent two months on the Greek island of Patmos to the local Diodorus to -Handschrift collate . He published a sample of his results in 1867. After his return he also examined the oldest Diodorus manuscript, the Codex Vindobonensis suppl. gr. 74 (today Neapolitanus suppl. gr. 4). After his death, Bergmann's collations were used by Friedrich Vogel and Curt Theodor Fischer for the new critical Diodor edition (published in Leipzig 1888–1906). Further research and educational trips took Bergmann to Venice (1855), Egypt and Palestine (1865/1866).

Fonts (selection)

  • De Asia Romanorum provincia . Berlin 1846 (dissertation)
  • De inscriptione Latina ad P. Sulpicium Quirinum Cos. anni 742 UC, ut videtur, referenda . Berlin 1851
  • De Asiae Romanorum provinciae civitatibus liberis. Part. I . Brandenburg 1855 (school program)
  • De inscriptione Cretensi inedita . Brandenburg 1861 (school program)
  • Diodori Siculi libri XI capita 1–12 e codice Patmio edita . Brandenburg 1867 (school program)

literature

  • Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator Philologorum . Leipzig 1871, pp. 41-42.
  • Albert Imhof: Annual report on the combined old and new town high school in Brandenburg from Easter 1870 to Easter 1871 . Brandenburg 1871, p. 45 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • anonymous [probably Albert Imhof]: Professor Dr. Miner (Nekrolog) . In: New Yearbooks for Philology and Education . 41st Volume, Volume 104 (1871), pp. 446-448
  • H .:  Bergmann, Wilhelm Richard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 395 f.
  • Wilhelm Pökel : Philological writer's lexicon . Leipzig 1882, p. 21.
  • Conrad Bursian : History of Classical Philology in Germany from the Beginnings to the Present . Part 2, Munich / Leipzig 1883, p. 907.

Web links

Wikisource: Richard Bergmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year 1844 in the anonymous obituary is a mistake.
  2. ↑ The tombstone in the Protestant cemetery in Palermo gives the date of his death, as does Pökel; see. also the list of employees from the years 1865 to 1871, in: Alfred Fleckeisen , Hermann Masius : New Year Books for Philology and Pedagogy . 41st volume, 103rd volume (1871), p. V. Imhof's obituary (1871) does not explicitly name the year, but can only mean 1870. Different year of death 1871, z. B. at ADB and Bursian.
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergmann, Wilhelm Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German epigraphist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Ober-Neusulza , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1870
Place of death Palermo , Sicily