Robert Kauer (classical philologist)

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Robert Kauer (born June 12, 1868 in Vienna ; † November 9, 1930 ibid) was an Austrian classical philologist . He is particularly known as the editor of the comedy poet Terenz .

Life

Robert Kauer studied Classical Philology at the University of Vienna , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate and passed the teaching examination for Latin and Greek in 1895. During his studies in 1887 he became a member of the Libertas Vienna fraternity . In the following years he went on research trips to Italy, during which he collated numerous manuscripts of the Terence comedies . He occupied himself with the edition of Terenz his entire life.

From 1898 Kauer worked as a high school teacher in Vienna, initially as a provisional, from 1900 as a real high school professor. From 1903 he also held lectures and exercises at the University of Vienna as a private lecturer in classical philology. In 1908, Kauer switched from teaching to school administration: he was appointed state school inspector for German schools in the coastal region (on the Adriatic Sea ). When this crown land fell to Italy after the First World War , Kauer returned to Vienna. There he worked as a department head for professional welfare in the newly created State Office for Social Administration and retired in 1923 as head of the section . During his work at the State Office for Social Administration, he was one of the pioneers of career counseling , the economic and social importance of which he recognized and promoted as the first Austrian. In this context he was also in contact with the writer Christoph Wieprecht ; Kauer's letters to Wieprecht are kept at the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World in Dortmund .

In retirement, Kauer resumed lecturing at the University of Vienna. From the summer semester of 1926 he directed the Latin courses for secondary school graduates. In 1928 he was appointed titular associate professor. After his death, his documents were sent to the Institute for Classical Philology and from there to the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2003 .

As a philologist, Kauer dealt primarily with the comedy poet Terenz, especially with textual criticism and metrics . He wrote several essays and was in charge of the literature report on Terence for the years 1898 to 1908. One of the early fruits of his studies in Terence was the editing of Karl Dziatzko's edition , which Kauer published in the second edition in 1903. Together with Wallace Martin Lindsay , he published the Oxford edition of Terenz in 1926 , which, as edited by Otto Skutsch (1958), forms the basis of the study of the poet to this day.

Fonts (selection)

  • Selected comedies by P. Terentius Afer. Published by Karl Dziatzko . 2nd, modified edition, Leipzig 1903. Reprint Leipzig 1921
  • with Wallace Martin Lindsay: P. Terenti Afri Comoediae . Oxford 1926
  • Career guidance literature . Vienna 1928
  • P. Terentius Afer, Andria, text and commentary . Bielefeld 1930

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 248.

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personal data
SURNAME Kauer, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kauer, Robert Franz de Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1930
Place of death Vienna