Richard Wünsch
Richard Wünsch (born June 1, 1869 in Wiesbaden ; † May 17, 1915 near Iłża ) was a German classical philologist and religious scholar.
Life
Richard Wünsch was born the son of a lawyer. After the early death of his mother, the father moved to Wetzlar in 1872 , where he met his second wife Auguste nee. Klein married. After the death of her father in 1884, she became Wünsch's most important reference person. He visited Wetzlar from 1878 to 1887 with such success that he was exempted from the oral school leaving examination. From the summer semester of 1887 to the winter semester of 1892/1893, he studied classical philology at the University of Marburg and became a member of today's Marburg Burschenschaft Rheinfranken . While still a student, Wünsch did his military service with the Marburg hunters and became a reserve officer with the 83rd regiment in Kassel. After a semester in Berlinand two in Bonn , where he made friends with Albrecht Dieterich and Siegfried Sudhaus , he returned to Marburg in the fall of 1890, where he closely followed Georg Wissowa , who shaped his scientific work the most. In 1893 Wünsch received his doctorate with the dissertation De Taciti Germaniae codicibus Germanicis .
He then went on study trips to Paris, Spain, Italy and Greece, sometimes accompanied by his friend Dieterich, from whom he had received a lot of inspiration for religious studies while studying in Bonn. During this time, Wünsch also collated Greek manuscripts by Johannes Lydos , which he incorporated into the Lydus de mensibus edition (Leipzig, Teubner) dedicated to Wissowa in 1898 . By studying handwriting, Wünsch put the author's text on a completely new basis.
In 1895 Wünsch spent a few months at the University of Göttingen as a guest student with Friedrich Leo and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . At the same time he looked at the more than 100 leaden escape boards that he had acquired in Athens in 1894. His edition appeared in 1897 as a supplement to the Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum . In 1898 he published other escape panels that he found in 1896 in the collection of Sethian cursing panels from Rome (Leipzig, Teubner) dedicated to Dieterich . In July of the same year he went to Breslau to do his habilitation with Franz Skutsch (on October 24, 1898). Here he also worked with Conrad Cichorius , Wilhelm Kroll , Eduard Norden and Friedrich Vogt . In March 1899 Wünsch married his cousin Lisbeth Stübel from Dresden, with whom he had a daughter and three sons.
In the autumn of 1902, Wünsch followed a call to the chair of classical philology at the University of Giessen as successor to Gotthold Gundermann , where his colleagues, along with Dieterich, included Erich Bethe , Alfred Körte and Adolf Strack . In addition to his academic teaching, Wünsch devoted himself to the publication of De magistratibus from Lydos and to ancient religion. In 1906 he was offered chairs in Kiel and Königsberg ; he decided on Königsberg, where he moved in April 1907. Here he devoted himself almost exclusively to religious studies. After the death of his friend Dieterich (1908) he published his little writings and arranged for the new edition of his writings Mother Earth , Eine Mithrasliturgie and Nekyia . In 1912 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Athens . In 1913, Wünsch was elected rector of the University of Königsberg, but did not take up the rectorate because he left his place of work when he was appointed to the University of Münster . When the First World War broke out , he volunteered and was deployed as leader of a battalion of the Silesian Landwehr in Poland. From the end of February 1915 he was involved in direct combat operations and fell in an attack on the Russian army near Iłża on May 17 of that year.
literature
- Hugo Hepding : Richard Wünsch . In: Hessian sheets for folklore . Volume 14 (1915), pp. 136-143
- Wilhelm Kroll: Richard Wünsch . In: Indo-European Yearbook . Volume 4 (1916), pp. 242-244
- Wilhelm Kroll: Richard Wünsch . In: Biographical Yearbook for Classical Studies . 38th year (1916/1918), pp. 1–11 (with list of publications).
- Hans Lietzmann : Richard Wünsch † May 17, 1915 . In: Hundert Jahre: A. Marcus and E. Webers Verlag, 1818–1918 , Bonn 1919, p. 55.
Web links
- Literature by Richard Wünsch in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Altherrenverband der Marburger Burschenschaft Rheinfranken eV http://www.embers.rheinfranken.de
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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 chair: Samuel Gottlieb Wald (1786–1806) | Carl Erfurdt (1810–1813) | Christian August Lobeck (1814–1857) | Ludwig Friedländer (1858–1892) | Ludwig Jeep (1893-1910)
Second chair: Karl Lehrs (1845–1878) | Arthur Ludwich (1878-1912) | Ludwig Deubner (1912–1917) | Ludolf Malten (1919 / 1920–1922) | Johannes Mewaldt (1923–1927) | Richard Harder (1927–1930) | Paul Maas (1930–1934) | Walter F. Otto (1934–1945)
Third chair: Henri Jordan (1867–1886) | Alfred Schöne (1887–1892) | Johannes Schmidt (1892-1894) | August Brinkmann (1896 / 1900–1902) | Richard Heinze (1903-1906) | Richard Wünsch (1907–1913) | Otto Immisch (1913–1914) | Karl Meister (1916–1921) | Ernst Bickel (1921–1928) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1928–1929) | Harald Fuchs (1929–1932) | Willy Theiler (1932–1944) | Werner Hartke (1944–1945)
Extraordinariat: Ludwig Jeep (1886–1893) | August Brinkmann (1896–1900) | Hermann Schöne (1903–1906) | Ludwig Deubner (1906–1912) | Christian Jensen (1912–1913) | Hermann Mutschmann (1913–1918) | Ludolf Malten (1919–1920)
First chair: Hermann Ludwig Nadermann (1821–1853) | Ferdinand Deycks (1843–1867) | Peter Langen (1868–1897) | Peter Sonnenburg (1898–1928) | Franz Beckmann (1931–1963) | Hermann Tränkle (1963–1972) | Christian Gnilka (1972-2002) | Christine Schmitz (since 2002)
Second chair: Franz Winiewski (1838–1874) | Johann Matthias Stahl (1874–1906) | Wilhelm Kroll (1906–1913) | Richard Wünsch (1913–1915) | Hermann Schöne (1916–1935) | Walter Eberhardt (1937–1946) | Friedrich Mehmel (1947–1951) | Richard Harder (1952–1957) | Gerhard Müller (1958–1962) | Martin Sicherheitsl (1963–1982) | Wolfgang Huebner (1986-2004) | Alexander Arweiler (since 2004)
Third chair (until 1918 extraordinary): Franz Ignaz Schwerdt (1861–1868) | Adalbert Parmet (1869–1898) | Carl Hosius (1897–1906) | Ludwig Radermacher (1906–1909) | Karl Münscher (1909–1936) | Rudolf Güngerich (1951–1953) | Hermann Kleinknecht (1953–1960) | Heinrich Dörrie (1961–1980) | Hermann Wankel (1981–1991) | Adolf Köhnken (1992–2002) | Christian Pietsch (since 2003)
Fourth chair: Otto Hiltbrunner (1962–1979)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wish Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and religious scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1915 |
| Place of death | at Iłża |