Rupert Hunter

Rupert Jäger (born February 1, 1809 in Kempten , † April 30, 1851 in Speyer ) was a German educator and classical philologist .

Life

Rupert Jäger was the son of Hofrat Dr. Georg von Jäger , who was professor and rector at the grammar school in Kempten when his son was born and later rector of the lyceum and grammar school in Speyer, and his wife Friederike von Ravenstein († 1857). His brother Albert von Jäger was later the director of the Palatinate Railways .

In 1817, at the age of eight, he went to grammar school in Speyer and later to the Lyceum , where he turned to the newer languages, especially English, and he had two teachers, Karl Friedrich Neumann , later professor at the University of Munich , who there taught the Chinese language and literature, and the later Archbishop of Cologne , Johannes von Geissel .

In the autumn of 1826 he began studying philology at the University of Munich, where he heard lectures from Friedrich von Thiersch . As a full professor , he was accepted into the philological seminar in the first year. He held his public disputation on February 13, 1829 in the auditorium under the chairmanship of Friedrich von Thiersch and opened it with a critical dissertation de Glauci Diomedisque episodio . In addition to classical studies, he dealt with law , old German literature and oriental languages . Due to his experience with the lectures of Professors Friedrich von Thiersch, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Johann Andreas Schmeller , he enrolled at the University of Bonn for the winter semester 1829/1830 and heard lectures there from Barthold Georg Niebuhr , Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker , Karl Friedrich Heinrich , August Ferdinand Räke (1788–1838) (according to the Nekrolog) and / or August Ferdinand Naeke (according to the speech at the funeral service). Due to his state examination , he returned to Munich in the summer semester and passed the philological-historical teaching examination with excellent results.

On July 14, 1831, he was hired as the second teacher to the rector Friedrich Wilhelm Balbier (1778-1832) at the Latin school in Kaiserslautern .

On July 2, 1833, he was transferred to the Frankenthal Latin School as sub- principal and senior teacher , because the city notables sent a petition to the government asking for a teacher to be sent.

On March 29, 1836 he was promoted to the second grade of the grammar school in Speyer and on July 6, 1838 he advanced to the third grade as a full professor; In 1842 he took over the senior class as full professor.

In February 1847 his colleague Karl Felix Halm was transferred to Hadamar and, as his successor, the philological lectures at the Lyceum were assigned to him. The appointment of Professor Johann Kaspar Zeuss to the University of Munich meant that he was appointed Professor of History and Philology at the Lyceum on May 25, 1847.

As curator of the Kreis-Antiquarium and the collections of the Historical Association of the Palatinate , he engaged in scientific research from 1839 and published these as antiquarian treatises in the Heidelberg annual reports of 1843 and 1848; he also associated with Friedrich Creuzer , Johann Christian Felix Bähr , Laurenz Lersch and August Friedrich Pauly .

Rupert Jäger married Karoline, the daughter of the royal district medical councilor Carl Christian Gottlob Ehrmann (1778–1826), during his two-year stay in Kaiserslautern. Together they had a son and a daughter. His son Julius Jäger became a director general in the Ministry of Transport in Munich. His daughter Lina passed away shortly after his death.

He died of the effects of a scarlet fever that he had overcome in 1825 .

Memberships

• When the historical association of the Palatinate was founded in 1839, he was elected curator of the district antiquarian bookshop and the association's collections.
• He was a member and secretary of the Catholic cathedral parish church administration since 1844.

Fonts (selection)

• De Glauci Diomedisque episodio. 1829 .
• Annotationum in Plutarchi vitam Caesaris specimen primum . Spirae, Typis Danielis Kranzbühler 1838.

literature

• Rupert Jäger in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 29th year, 1851, 1st part. Weimar Voigt, 1853. pp. 334–341.
• Johann Josef Hermann Schmitt:  Hunter, Rupert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 475 f.
• Joseph Fischer: Rupert Jaeger Prof. d. History and Philology at the Königl. Lyceum zu Speyer, Conservator d. Antiquariums and collections d. histor. Association d. Palatinate . Speyer 1851.
• Georg Rau : Speech given at the memorial service ordered on May 12th in memory of the late royal Lyceal professor Rupert Jaeger from the local royal university . Speyer 1851.