Rudolf Ehwald

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Rudolf Ehwald (born November 7, 1847 in Gotha ; † July 13, 1927 there ) was a German librarian , historian and classical philologist .

Life

Rudolf Ehwald, son of master saddler Justin Ehwald, passed his Abitur at the Ernestinum Gotha . During his studies of classical philology in Jena , Leipzig and Göttingen he became a member of the Teutonia Jena fraternity in 1869/70 . After graduating, he received his doctorate in 1871 and became a teacher at the Ernestinum in the same year. He was a professor from 1882 and remained a teacher at this school for four decades until 1911, most recently as a high school professor . Ernst Anding was one of his students there , and Kurd Laßwitz was his colleague for almost the entire period . After he ran the Herzogliche Bibliothek Gotha on a voluntary basis from 1899 to 1911 , he became full-time director and senior librarian in 1911 and remained in this position until his retirement in 1921. Here he was responsible for the creation of the “Gothana” department, in which writings related to Gotha were collected. In 1919 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1876 and 1905 he went on study trips to Italy, England and France.

Ehwald was an active member of the Gotha History Society. His work on Ovid's manuscripts found in the Gotha library and his descriptions of the manuscripts and incunabula in the Gotha high school library were of particular importance . In addition, he did intensive research on the Laocoon saga , both on the philological and archaeological sources. In addition, he wrote many memorial speeches and memorial writings. For the 2nd German Librarians' Day in Gotha in 1901, he wrote the "History of the Gotha Library".

Rudolf Ehwald is the grandfather of the soil scientist Ernst Ehwald .

Fonts (selection)

List of publications: Hermann Ullrich: Works by Rudolf Ehwald . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Gothaische Geschichte und Altertumskunde , 1928, pp. 49–56 ( online ).

  • Commemorative speech for Otto Schneider: held in the auditorium of the Ernestinum grammar school on June 9, 1880 . In: Program of the Herzoglichen Gymnasium Ernestinum zu Gotha; 1881, pp. 1-10.
  • Speech in memory of Joachim Marquardt held . In: Program of the Herzogliches Gymnasium Ernestinum zu Gotha: as an invitation to the ... taking place dismissal of the high school graduates, 1883, pp. 3-17.
  • (Ed.): Publius Ovidius Naso, Vol. 2: Metamorphoses: cum emendationis summario , Lipsiae: Teubner, 1883.
  • (Ed.): Publius Ovidius Naso, Vol. 3: Tristia. Ibis. Ex Ponto Libri Fasti, Lipsiae: Teubner 1884.
  • (Ed.): Publius Ovidius Naso, Vol. 1: Amores. Epistulae. Medicamina faciei. Ars amatoria. Remedia amoris / ed.R. Ehwald , Lipsiae: Teubner 1888.
  • Description of the manuscripts and incunabula of the Herzogl. High school library in Gotha: together with four letters from Eobanus Hessus, Melanchthon and Niclas von Amsdorff . In: Program of the Herzoglichen Gymnasium Ernestinum zu Gotha, 1892/93, pp. [3] –20.
  • Critical contributions to Ovid's Epistulae ex Ponto , Gotha: FA Perthes 1896.
  • History of the Gotha Library . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, Vol. 18 (1901), pp. 434–463 ( digitized version ).
  • Gotha in poetry from the 16th to 18th centuries . In: Communications from the Association for Gotha History and Antiquity Research, 1905, pp. 58–84.
  • Aldhelmi Opera. (3 parts), Weidmann, Berlin 1913-1919 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica [1,1], part 15)
  • Luther's letter to Pope Leo X and his little book on the freedom of a Christian. Society of Bibliophiles, Weimar 1917 (publication of the Society of Bibliophiles, issue 26).

literature

  • Behrend Pick: Rudolf Ehwald (1847–1927) . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Gothaische Geschichte und Altertumsforschung, 1928, pp. 46–49 ( digitized version ).
  • Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 67.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Helmut Roob, Günter Scheffler: Gothaer personalities , Rhino-Verlag, 2nd edition 2006, ISBN 3-932081-37-4
  2. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members. Edition 1925/26. Frankfurt am Main 1925/26, p. 91.
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 74.
personal data
SURNAME Ehwald, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehwaldius, Rudolfus (name in Latin publications)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, historian and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1927
Place of death Gotha