Richard Hoche

Richard Hoche: painting by Carl Rodeck

Richard Gottfried Hoche (born September 28, 1834 in Aschersleben , † March 30, 1906 in Hamburg ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.

Life

Richard Hoche was the son of the grammar school teacher Eduard Gustav Adolf Hoche (1807-1883) and the grandson of the historian and theologian Johann Gottfried Hoche as well as the maternal nephew of the Provincial School Board Christian Wilhelm Ludwig Eduard Suffrian (1805-1876). After attending the Stiftsgymnasium zu Zeitz, he studied Classical Philology and History at the Berlin University from 1852 to 1855 . After taking the state examination in Münster , he taught at the Gymnasium in Minden from March 15, 1855. In 1856 he received his doctorate in Leipzig . In the following years he worked as a grammar school teacher in various places: from autumn 1856 to Easter 1859 at the knight academy in Brandenburg, from Easter 1859 to autumn 1863 at the grammar school in Wetzlar. In Wesel , where he worked from autumn 1863 to October 1870, he was promoted to senior teacher and in 1867 to director of the grammar school. From Easter 1870 to Easter 1874 he was director at the Elberfeld high school .

The high school authorities of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg elected Hoche as the new director of the Johanneum School of Academics in December 1873 , succeeding the outgoing Johannes Classen . On April 16, 1874, Hoche was introduced to his office by Mayor Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer and the day after he was accepted into the high school authorities. During the years of his directorate, Hoche gradually transformed the Johanneum into a grammar school based on the Prussian model, with which he encountered resistance from teachers and parents. In addition, he sponsored new construction and renovations of the school buildings and increased and maintained the school library founded by his predecessor Classen. He restricted his teaching activities in favor of his scientific activities and stopped teaching completely at Easter 1887, when he was entrusted with the supervision and further development of the entire secondary school system in Hamburg. After twelve years of intensive activity, he retired on July 1, 1900.

In addition to his teaching and organizational activities in the school system, Hoche also stood out through numerous publications. In addition to numerous reviews, lectures and speeches, he published several school programs in which he dealt with the history of the Johanneum, as well as over 180 articles in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

literature

• Scholars' School of the Johanneum in Hamburg: Report on the 378th school year 1906–1907. Hamburg 1907, pp. 4-8.
• Edmund Kelter : Hamburg and its Johanneum through the centuries 1529–1929. Hamburg 1928, pp. 184-197.

Web links

Wikisource: Richard Hoche  - Sources and full texts

• Works by and about Richard Hoche  in the German Digital Library
• Literature by and about Richard Hoche in the catalog of the German National Library