Rudolf Smoking Stone
Rudolf Rauchstein (born May 2, 1798 in Brugg , † January 3, 1879 in Aarau ) was a Swiss philologist , educator , editor and politician .
biography
Rudolf Rauchstein was born the son of a cutler in Brugg. After attending the Latin School in Brugg and the Academy in Bern (the predecessor institution of the University of Bern ), he studied Classical Philology in Breslau . In 1820 he first became a teacher in Hofwil at the school led by Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg . From 1822 he worked for 44 years as a professor of Latin and Greek at the Aarau Cantonal School . His students were u. a. Augustin Keller , Emil Welti and Hans Herzog .
He was rector for a total of 23 years . A gifted, respected in Switzerland and Germany Greek scholar , he studied in numerous publications, especially with Pindar , the tragedians and the Attic orators. Smoke stone was part-time in 1828 as an employee from 1832 as editor of the Aargauer Zeitung active
From 1831 to 1841, smoking stone was a passionate, liberal-conservative member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau . Despite his sympathy for the Catholic part of the population, Rauchstein voted for the abolition of the monastery in 1841 . Rauchstein received the title of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Basel in 1843 for his scientific merits .
Smoking stone died of a stroke on January 3, 1879 .
Works (selection)
A gifted, respected in Switzerland and Germany Hellenist , published mainly works on the Athenian orators to Pindar and the Greek tragedies . Other works deal with teaching (especially the classical languages) at grammar schools.
- De orationum Olynthiarum ordine , Leipzig, 1821 ( digitized version )
- Remarks on the Value of Studies in Antiquity in Gymnasiums and Higher Schools , 1825
- About Aulus Gabinius , 1826
- 0bservationes in Demosthenis orationem de Corona , 1829
- De tempore, quo Aeschinis et Demosthenis orationes Ctesiphonteae habitae sint commentatio , 1835
- As an introduction to Pindar's Siegeslieder , Aarau 1843 ( digitized version )
- Emendationes in Pindarum , 1844
- Annotationes in Pindari Olympia , 1845
- On the Eumenids of Aeschylus , Aarau 1846 ( digital copy )
- Alcestis of Euripides, as a special genre of the Greek drama , 1847
- Selected speeches of Lysias. Explained by Dr. R. Rauchstein , Berlin 1848 ( digitized 2nd edition 1855 )
- Selected speeches by Isocrates, Panegyricus and Areopagiticus. Explained by Dr. R. Rauchstein , Berlin 1849 ( digitized 2nd edition 1855 )
- The modernity of the ancient languages in our grammar schools , 1850
- Emendationes in Aeschyli Eumenides , 1855
- Emendationes in Aeschyli Agamemnonem , Aarau 1858 ( digitized version )
- Disputatio de locis aliquot Euripidis Iphigeniae Tauricae , 1860
- Winkelried's That near Sempach is not a fable , Aarau 1861 ( digitized version )
literature
- Ernst Koller: Rudolf Rauchstein and the "Principle of the Gymnasium" . In: Baden studies on humanism and history . tape 49 . Baden Verlag, Baden 1970, p. 61-118 .
- Wilhelm Pökel : Philological writer's lexicon . Alfred Krüger, Leipzig 1882, p. 219 .
- Albert Schumann: Swiss writers: IX. Rudolf Smoking Stone . In: Julius Petzholdt (Hrsg.): Neuer Anzeiger für Bibliographie und Librarywissenschaft . G. Schönfeld, Dresden 1883, p. 61-77 .
- Bernhard Wyss : Rudolf Rauchstein (1798–1879) . In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, vol. 68–69, 1958, p. 605 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Rauchstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Beatrice Küng-Aerni: Smoking stone, Rudolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Schumann: Smoking stone, Rudolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 392-396.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Smoking stone, Rudolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss philologist, educator and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1798 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brugg , Switzerland |
DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1879 |
Place of death | Aarau , Switzerland |