Rudolf Smoking Stone

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Schumann:  Smoking stone, Rudolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 392-396.
personal data
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