Samuel Adrianus Naber

Samuel Adrianus Naber

Samuel Adrianus Naber (born July 16, 1828 in The Hague , † May 30, 1913 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch classical philologist.

Life

Samuel Adrianus was the son of the military doctor Johan Willem Anton Naber (* July 27, 1797 in The Hague; † April 29, 1876 in Amsterdam) and his wife Catharina Elisabeth Meerburg (* July 28, 1799 in Leiden; † January 24, 1840 in Den Hague). After attending the French school and high school in his hometown, he studied classical languages ​​at the University of Leiden from 1845 . Here, among others, Carel Gabriel Cobet and Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp became his formative teachers. In 1850 he received his doctorate in Leiden with the thesis De fide Andocidis orationis de mysteriis to the doctorate of literature. In 1851 he went to the grammar school in Haarlem as vice-principal , where he took over the rectorate in 1858. In 1860 he moved to the Willem III grammar school in Batavia as rector , was briefly active at the municipal grammar school in Leiden , in 1864 he moved as vice rector to the grammar school in Zwolle , where he was promoted to rector in 1868.

In 1871 he received a professorship at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam , where he changed to the teaching staff there when the University of Amsterdam was founded . Here he worked as a professor of the Latin and Greek languages ​​until his retirement in 1898. Naber wrote numerous articles for the Dutch scientific journals De Gids and Mnemosyne . Numerous text reviews of classic ancient writings originate from his pen, some of which have also appeared in German. These deal with the works of Marcus Cornelius Fronto , Homer and Photios I , among others . In addition, he wrote instructions for pedagogy and also appeared as an autobiographer. In the academy year 1878/79 he was elected Rector of the Amsterdam Alma Mater, in 1865 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences , he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens and he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion .

family

Naber married on July 4, 1855 in Haarlem with Anna Elizabeth l 'Honoré (* July 12, 1830 in The Hague, † April 9, 1915 in Amsterdam), the daughter of Samuel Pieter l' Honoré (* ± 1791 in The Hague ; † April 18, 1861 in The Hague) and his first wife Elizabeth Rebecca Oorthuijs (* ± 1795 in Rotterdam; † June 6, 1835 in The Hague). There are three sons and three daughters from the marriage:

• Elisabeth Rebecca Naber (born December 3, 1856 in Haarlem, † February 19, 1857 in Haarlem)
• Jean Charles Naber (born March 11, 1858 in Haarlem, † February 14, 1950 in Utrecht), legal scholar
• Johanna Wilhelmina Antoinette Naber (born March 25, 1859 in Haarlem, † May 30, 1941 in The Hague), author, feminist and the first historian of the Dutch women's movement
• Alida Catharina Naber (born October 14, 1862 in Leiden, † May 7, 1952 in The Hague) m. July 28, 1896 in Amsterdam with Albertus Poutsma (born December 28, 1858 in Gorredijk; † March 11, 1941 in Blaricum)
• Samuel Pierre l 'Honoré Naber (born January 30, 1865 in Zwolle, † May 14, 1936 in The Hague)
• Henri Adrien Naber (born September 11, 1867 in Zwolle, † June 27, 1944 in Soest) married. August 7, 1902 in Haarlem with Petronella Jacoba Boelen (born November 12, 1870 in Arnhem, † April 28, 1953 in Soest)

Works (selection)

• Specimen philologicum inaugurale de Fide Andocidis orationis de Mysteriis. Leiden 1850
• Photii Patriarchae Lexicon. Leiden 1864-1865, 2nd vol.
• Middelbaar onderwijs en paedagogiek. Zwolle, 1865
• Sex. Aurelii propertii Cynthia cum libro quarto Elegiarum qui propertii nomine fertur. Editio novum in ordinem digesta recensente Dominico Carutti. The Hague 1869
• Oratio de studiis propaedeuticis. Amsterdam 1871
• Letters about upbringing in Berlin. 1873
• Quaestiones Homericae. Amsterdam, 1877
• Verisimilia. Amsterdam, 1886
• Four tijdgenooten. 1894
• Flavii Iosephi opera omnia. Leipzig 1896
• Allard Pierson cooks up. Haarlem 1897

literature

• H. van der Hoeven: Naber, Samuel Adrianus (1828-1913). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. The Hague, 1979, Vol. 1, ( Online )
• GEW van Hille: Levensbericht van Samuel Adrianus Naber. In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. Brill, Leiden, 1915, pp. 1-58, ( online )
• K. Kuiper: Levens report SA Naber. In: Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam 1914. Amsterdam, 1914, pp. 78–112 ( online PDF )

Web links

• Naber entry in the digital library of Dutch literature (DBNL)
• Naber entry at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
• But entry in the professorial catalog of the University of Amsterdam
• Genealogielink (accessed October 12, 2016)