Richard Reitzenstein
Richard August Reitzenstein (born April 2, 1861 in Breslau ; † March 23, 1931 in Göttingen ) was a German classical philologist and religious historian .
Life
Reitzenstein was a student at the Maria Magdalenen Gymnasium in Breslau until he graduated from high school in 1879 . He then studied in Berlin with Theodor Mommsen and received his doctorate in 1884 with Johannes Vahlen with a source-critical study of missing authors by Cato and Columella . He then worked for Mommsen for a long time in Italian libraries. On February 24, 1888 Reitzenstein completed his habilitation in Breslau with a study of detailed problems in the tradition of the Alexander campaign at Arrian . In 1889 he became an associate professor for classical philology in Rostock . From 1892 to 1893 Reitzenstein was a full professor in Gießen and then moved to Strasbourg . The encounter with the local representatives of historical-critical exegesis and the acquaintance with the Egyptologist Wilhelm Spiegelberg , who accompanied Reitzenstein on a study and research trip in 1898 and whose papyrus finds form the basis of Reitzenstein's Strasbourg manuscript collection, stimulated Reitzenstein to deal with questions of religious history. In 1911 he was appointed to Freiburg im Breisgau and in 1914 to succeed Friedrich Leo in Göttingen . There he became a pioneering representative of the School of Religious History , although at that time he was hardly concerned with issues of the history of religion, but almost exclusively with Latin authors. In 1928 Reitzenstein retired. His successor at the chair was Eduard Fraenkel . After his death, his students dedicated a commemorative publication to him for his 70th birthday on April 2, 1931, which was published by Eduard Fraenkel and Hermann Fränkel .
Richard Reitzenstein was married to Antonie Keil (1864–1934) since 1890. The couple had a daughter and two sons: the librarian Richard Reitzenstein (1894–1982) and the classical philologist Erich Reitzenstein (1897–1976).
Services
Reitzenstein's importance lies primarily in the fertility of the Hellenistic mystery religions for New Testament exegesis and the research into ancient syncretism and gnosis , whose origins he derived from Egypt since his Poimandres (1904) and from an Iranian redeemer myth since 1916. In addition, in the wake of the Semitist Mark Lidzbarski, he pointed out the importance of the Mandaean traditions for understanding the Gospel of John and above all the explanation of the baptism of St. John and the early Christian baptism ritual. The theologian Rudolf Bultmann took up these impulses later. Furthermore Reitzenstein drew attention to the parallelism of Hellenistic philosophers' lives and travel novels with the apocryphal literature of the apostles. Finally, he influenced the research on Theognis decisively, whose work he as for content stocked Kommersbuch at her.
literature
- Annual report 1879 of the St. Maria Magdalena grammar school in Breslau.
- Klaus-Gunther Wesseling: Reitzenstein, Richard August. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 1329-1339.
- Alf Özen: Reitzenstein, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 405 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans-Ulrich Berner, Marcel Humar: Reitzenstein, Richard. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 1042 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Reitzenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Richard Reitzenstein in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
First chair (until 1810 council professorship of the Greek language): Johannes Posselius (the elder) (1553–1591) | Johannes Posselius (the Younger) (1593–1623) | Johann Huswedel (1623–1627) | Bernhard Taddel (1650–1656) | Christian Woldenberg (1657-1659) | Heinrich Müller (1659–1662) | Christian Kortholt (1663–1665) | Johann Mantzel (1674–1681) | Gottfried Weiss (1684–1693) | Johann Gottlieb Möller (1694–1696) | Jacob Burgmann (1699–1724) | Jakob Christoph Wolff (1725–1758) | Hermann Jacob Lasius (1764–1802) | Johann Christian Wilhelm Dahl (1802–1803) | Immanuel Gottlieb Huschke (1806–1828) | Gustav Christoph Sarpe (1815–1830) | Ludwig Bachmann (1833–1881) Rudolf Helm (1907–1937) | Andreas Thierfelder (1938–1940) | Rudolf Helm (1947–1948) | Werner Hartke (1948–1955) | Franz Zimmermann (1961–1962) | Wolfgang Hering (1964–1986) | Wolfgang Bernard (since 1994)
Second chair: Franz Volkmar Fritzsche (1828–1887) | Eduard Schwartz (1887-1893) | Hans von Arnim (1893–1900) | Otto Kern (1900–1907) | Johannes Geffcken (1907–1933) | Kurt von Fritz (1933–1934) | Hans Diller (1937–1942) | Hermann Kleinknecht (1944–1951) | Werner Krenkel (1975–1993) | Jürgen Leonhardt (1994–1997) | Christiane Reitz (1999–2019) | Nicola Hömke (since 2019)
Third chair (from 1888 extraordinary): Richard Foerster (1875–1881) | Georg Kaibel (1882–1883) | Friedrich Leo (1883–1888) | Friedrich Marx (1888–1889) | Richard Reitzenstein (1889-1892) | Hans von Arnim (1893) | Erich Bethe (1893–1897) | Otto Kern (1897–1900) | Karl Kalbfleisch (1900–1903) | Otto Plasberg (1903–1909)
Chair I (since 1962 focus on Greek studies ): Friedrich Karl Rumpf (1809–1823) | Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1825–1858) | Ludwig Lange (1859–1871) | Eduard Lübbert (1871–1874) | Adolf Philippi (1874-1893) | Eduard Schwartz (1893–1897) | Albrecht Dieterich (1897–1903) | Erich Bethe (1903–1906) | Alfred Körte (1906–1913) | Rudolf Herzog (1913–1936) | Albrecht von Blumenthal (1940–1945) | Gerhard Müller (1962–1976) | Egert Pöhlmann (1976–1980) | Manfred Landfester (1980–2002) | Peter von Möllendorff (since 2003)
Chair II (since 1962 focus on Latin studies ): Heinrich Friedrich Pfannkuche (1803–1832) | Wilhelm Clemm (1874-1883) | Johannes Schmidt (1883-1892) | Richard Reitzenstein (1892-1893) | Gotthold Gundermann (1893–1902) | Richard Wünsch (1902–1907) | Otto Immisch (1907–1913) | Karl Kalbfleisch (1913–1934) | Wilhelm Süß (1934–1940) | Andreas Thierfelder (1941–1943) | Vinzenz Buchheit (1962–1989) | Jochem Küppers (1990-1997) | Helmut Krasser (since 1999)
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: Johann Matthias Gesner (1734–1761) | Christian Gottlob Heyne (1763–1812) | Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich (1814–1835) | Karl Friedrich Hermann (1842–1856) | Ernst Curtius (1856–1868) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1869–1877) | Karl Dilthey (1877–1887) | Wilhelm Meyer (1887–1889) | Friedrich Leo (1889–1914) | Richard Reitzenstein (1914–1928) | Eduard Fraenkel (1928–1931) | Kurt Latte (1931-1935) | Hans Drexler (1940–1945) | Kurt Latte (1946–1957) | Karl Deichgräber (1957–1969) | Klaus Nickau (1970-2000) | Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (since 2001).
Second chair: Georg Ludolf Dissen (1813–1837) | Ernst von Leutsch (1837–1883) | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1883–1897) | Georg Kaibel (1897–1901) | Eduard Schwartz (1902–1909) | Paul Wendland (1909–1915) | Max Pohlenz (1916–1937) | Karl Deichgräber (1938–1946) | Walter F. Otto (1946–1948) | Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich (1948–1972) | Carl Joachim Classen (1973–1993) | Siegmar Döpp (1995-2007) | Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser (since 2008).
Third chair: Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich (1808–1816) | Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1816–1819) | Karl Otfried Müller (1819–1840) | Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (1842–1856) | Hermann Sauppe (1856-1893) | Wilhelm Meyer (1895–1917) | Günther Jachmann (1917–1922) | Wilhelm Baehrens (1922–1929) | ( Ludolf Malten ) (1945–1958) | Will Richter (1959–1975) | Ulrich Schindel (1976-2003) | Peter Kuhlmann (since 2004).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reitzenstein, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reitzenstein, Richard August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and historian of religion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1931 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |