Ryszard Gansiniec

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Ryszard Gansiniec (other spellings Richard Ganschinietz or Ryszard Ganszyniec , born March 6, 1888 in Siemianowitz , † March 8, 1958 in Krakow ) was a Polish classical philologist , religious scholar and cultural historian who studied at the universities in Warsaw (1915-1917), Posen (1917–1919), Lwów (1920–1941), Wrocław (1946–1948) and Kraków ( Jagiellonian University , 1948–1958). He published monographs, essays and lexicon articles on ancient religious and cultural history as well as on the history of culture and science in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance .

Life

Ryszard Gansiniec attended high schools in Neisse (Upper Silesia) and Mödling near Vienna and then went to the Vienna seminary , which he left in 1910 without a degree. From 1911 he studied Classical Philology and German at the Universities of Münster (with Wilhelm Kroll ) and Berlin (with Hermann Diels ). In Berlin he worked from 1914 as an assistant at the Museum of Ethnology ; at the same time he published scientific essays and articles in Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity . After the outbreak of the First World War , he interrupted his studies in 1915 and volunteered for service in the German Army . Because of his knowledge of the Polish language, he was given a teaching position at the University of Warsaw that same year , which had recently been reopened and which, under the German occupation, had Polish as the language of instruction for the first time. But after a short time Gansiniec was recalled and sent to the front. In October 1917 he returned to the University of Warsaw back, which now was under Polish administration, and graduated with the doctorate to the Dr. phil. from. His Latin written dissertation De Agathodaemone appeared two years later.

From 1917 to 1919 Gansiniec was Associate Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Poznan . In 1920 he moved to the University of Lwów , which had recently come under Polish sovereignty. There Gansiniec worked as a full professor, chair holder and head of the Institute for Classical Philology. He was a member of the Lwów Scientific Society from 1921 and ran his own book publisher from 1930 to 1939. While he had mainly published in German until the 1920s, he now switched to Polish and French. In Lwów he founded the magazines Filomata , Palaestra and Przegląd Klasyczny , in which articles and reviews on ancient literature and history appeared.

When the Second World War broke out , Gansiniec took part for a short time in the Polish defensive battle, which, however , could not prevent the occupation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union . Under the Soviet occupation Gansiniec had to stop his book publishing and his magazines, but initially kept his chair at what is now the "National Ivan Franko University". That changed in the summer of 1941 when the German Wehrmacht attacked the Soviet Union : the university was closed, and professors and students had to endure reprisals under the German occupation. Gansiniec worked as a construction worker and employee of a cold store. After the Wehrmacht withdrew in 1944, the Soviet military administration suspected him, like many others, of collaborating with the Germans and imprisoned him until May 25, 1945.

Gansiniec stayed in Lwów after his release, but was finally expatriated like most Polish residents in 1946 and first moved to Wrocław , where he managed the newly established III. Chair of Classical Philology. In 1948 he accepted a position at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow , which appointed him Professor of Ancient Culture and Classical Philology. There he remained active in teaching and research until his death. The Polish Academy of Scholarship elected him a corresponding member in 1945 and a full member in 1951; Gansiniec headed her Philological Section from 1950 to 1952. In 1957 he founded the magazine Filomata again, which was published in Krakow until 1993.

Ryszard Gansiniec was born in 1940 with the cultural scientist Zofia. Przygoda (1919–1988) married.

Fonts (selection)

  • Hippolytus' chapter against the magicians. Refut. haer. IV 28-42 . Leipzig 1913 ( texts and investigations 39.2)
  • De Agathodaemone . Warsaw 1919 ( Travaux de la societé des sciences de Varsovie. II: Classe des sciences anthropologiques, sociales, d'histoire et de philosophie 2,17)
  • as editor: Brata Mikołaja z Polski pisma lekarskie. Poznan 1920 (= Prace naukowe uniwersitetu poznańakiego, sekcja humanistycznae. Volume 2).
  • Pas magiczny. Studia do dziejów magii . Lwów 1922
  • Polskie listy miłosne dawnych czasów . Lwów 1925
  • Sprawa 'numerus clausus' i zasadnicze jej znaczenie. Antysemityzm akademicki jako objaw antysemityzmu społecznego . Lwów 1925
  • Nagrobek Bolesława Wielkiego . In: Przegląd Zachodni . Volume 6 (1951), pp. 359-537
  • Eucharystia w wierzeniach i Praktykach ludu . In: Lud. Organ polskiego towarzystwa ludoznawczego . Volume 44 (1957), pp. 45-117
  • Metrificale Marka z Opatowca i traktaty gramatyczne XIV i XV wieku . Wrocław 1960 ( Studia staropolskie 6)
  • Nicolai Copernici De revolutionibus libri sex . Warszawa 1975 ( Nicolai Copernici Opera Omnia 2)

literature

  • Ryszard Gansiniec (1888-1958) . In: Kronika Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego . Born 1957, p. 223
  • Zofia Gansińcowa: Ryszard Gansiniec . In: Filomata . Born 1958, No. 117, pp. 248–252
  • Jerzy Łanowski: Ryszard Gansiniec 6. III. 1888 - 8th III. 1958 . In: Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki . Volume 3 (1958), pp. 629–637 (with picture on p. 628)
  • Tadeusz Ulewicz: Ryszard Gansiniec i jego badania nad kulturą umysłową polskiego średniowiecza i renesansu . In: Pamiętnik Literacki . 49, pp. 645-666 (1958). Reprint: Portrety uczonych polskich . Kraków 1974, pp. 183-197
  • Piotr Grzegorczyk: Ryszard Gansiniec In: Kultura i społeczeństwo . Volume 3 (1959), p. 133 f.
  • Józef Śliwiok: Prof. dr Ryszard Gansiniec. Z życia i twórczości. materiały posesyjne . Katowice 1997
  • Jerzy Starnawski: Ryszard Gansiniec (Ganszyniec, 1888-1958) . In: Sylwetki lwowskich historyków literatury . Łódź 1997, pp. 187-202

Web links

Wikisource: Richard Ganschinietz  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ Richard Ganschinietz used the German spelling since his birth and also in his first scientific publications. From the First World War he preferred the Polish spelling Ryszard Ganszyniec . After the Second World War he changed the spelling of his surname to Gansiniec .
  2. ^ Trude Maurer (editor): Colleagues, fellow students, fighters. European universities in the First World War . Stuttgart 2006, p. 137.
personal data
SURNAME Gansiniec, Ryszard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganszyniec, Ryszard (spelling until 1945); Ganschinietz, Richard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish classical philologist, religious scholar and cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Siemianowice Śląskie
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1958
Place of death Krakow