Rudolf Heinrich Klausen

Rudolf Heinrich Klausen (born April 24, 1807 in Altona , † March 17, 1840 in Greifswald ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Rudolf (also Rudolph ) Heinrich Klausen came from a family of pastors in Schleswig. His father Gottlieb Ernst Klausen (1762-1851) was a philologist and from 1794 rector of the high school in Altona , which his son Rudolf Heinrich also attended. He then studied philology and history at the universities of Kiel , Berlin (1826, among others, with Hegel ), Leipzig and Bonn . In Bonn he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate and habilitation in the same year. As a private lecturer, he held lectures for nine years at the University of Bonn, which appointed him extraordinary professor in 1833. In the winter semester 1835/36 the students Emanuel Geibel and Karl Marx attended the lecture “ Aeschylus Choephoren ” with him.

Klausen's research focus was Greek literature. Starting from Aeschylus , Hesiod and the Greek historians, he examined the mythology and religion of the ancient Greeks. In his main work (1839) he examined the influence of the Greek religion on the Italian.

His writings, which also included critical editions of the Aeschylus tragedies, earned him a reputation among experts. In 1838 he was appointed to the University of Greifswald , initially as an associate professor because of his age. In 1840 he was appointed full professor. He died that same year at the age of 32.

Fonts (selection)

• Theologumena Aeschyli tragici. Pars prior . Bonn 1829 (dissertation) digitized
• The wanderings of Io and Heracles to Aeschylus . In: Rheinisches Museum for Philology, History and Greek Philosophy . Weber, Bonn 1829, Volume 3, pp. 293–323 PDF file 7.3 M
• Achilles on Skyros. A tragedy . Perthes & Besser, Hamburg 1831 digitized
• Hecataei Milesii fragmenta. Scylacis Caryandensis Periplus . G. Reimer, Berlin 1831 digitized
• Aeschyli quae supersunt . Wilhelm Henning, Gotha and Erfurt 1833 digitized
• The adventures of Odysseus from Hesiodus explained . Adolf Marcus Bonn 1834 digitized
• De carmine fratrum Arvalium liber . König, Bonn 1836 digitized
• A. Böckh's biography. Böhme, Leipzig 1837
• Aeneas and the Penates. The Italian folk religions under the influence of the Greek . Two volumes. Friedrich and Andreas Perthes, Hamburg and Gotha 1839–1840 First volume digitized Second volume digitized

Letters

• The Kalliope database contains eleven letters from Klausen to Emil Braun , Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson , Christian Lassen , Karl Otfried Müller , Valentin Rost , Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch and two letters from Ernst Curtius to Klausen.
• Regest edition of letters to Goethe . Letters to Goethe between 1823 and 1832. online
• The handwritten estate of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the Hegel holdings of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage. on-line

literature

• Carsten Erich Carstens :  Klausen, Rudolph Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 63 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Rudolf Heinrich Klausen  - Sources and full texts

• Pierer's Universal Lexikon Klausen (Rudolph Heinr) digitized