Tycho Mommsen
Carl Johannes Tycho Mommsen (born May 23, 1819 in Garding , Schleswig-Holstein , † November 30, 1900 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German classical philologist and high school director .
Life
Tycho Mommsen, son of pastor Jens Mommsen and Sophie Elisabeth Krumbhaar, was the younger brother of the historian and Nobel laureate in literature Theodor Mommsen . The family moved to Oldesloe in 1821 . From 1834 the brothers visited the Christianeum in Altona .
From here he went to the University of Kiel to study philology . Here he met the poet Theodor Storm in 1839 and, together with him and his brother Theodor, published the songbook of three friends in 1843 .
After his marriage to the lawyer’s daughter Franziska de Boor (1824-1902) in April 1849, he became a teacher at the grammar school in Husum . In 1850 he had to leave Husum for political reasons and went to Altona. At Easter 1851 he became a teacher at the secondary school in Eisenach .
After a time as the rector of the citizen school in Oldenburg , he was director of the municipal grammar school in Frankfurt am Main from 1864 to 1886 . He died on December 3, 1900 in Frankfurt. His grave is in the Frankfurt main cemetery (Gewann F 1608).
Mommsen's wife was the daughter of the lawyer Carl Friedrich de Boor (1776–1848). The couple had eight children. Her son Jens Mommsen (1852–1922) was a doctor; her daughter Emma Kathinka (1857–1943) married the archivist Claus Albert de Boor (1852–1945).
Works
- [Annotated translation] Pindaros , Kiel 1845 ( Leipzig 1846 , with annotations Berlin 1864)
- The Perkins-Shakespeare , Berlin 1854
- The art of translating from modern languages , Oldenburg 1858
- [Critical Edition] Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet , Oldenburg 1859
- Comments on criticism, exegesis and division of verse in Pindar , Oldenburg 1863 [39 pp.]
- Comments on the first book of the Satires of Horace , Frankfurt 1871 [30 pp.]
- Contributions to the doctrine of the Greek prepositions , Berlin 1895 [X, 846 pp.]
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .
- Michael Hiltscher, Shakespeare's Text in Germany: Textual Criticism and Canonical Issues from the Beginnings to the Middle of the 19th Century , Frankfurt / Main: Peter Lang, 1993, ISBN 3-631-46363-4
- Repertory of the letters from the Walter de Gruyter archive . Selected by Otto Neuendorff. Edited by Anne-Katrin Ziesak . Berlin / New York 1999, p. 200
- Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg : Tycho Mommsen. In: Between Eider and Wiedau. Home calendar for North Friesland, 2007, ISSN 0514-8413 , pp. 47–52.
- Kurt Telschow: Mommsen, Tycho Karl Johannes. In: Schleswig-holsteinisches biographisches Lexikon , Vol. 4, Wachholtz, Neumünster 1976, ISBN 3-529-02644-1 , pp. 159-162.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guide to the graves of well-known personalities in Frankfurt cemeteries . Frankfurt am Main 1985, p. 28
Web links
- Literature by Tycho Mommsen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Tycho Mommsen in the German Digital Library
- Tycho Mommsen's personal data sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
- family tree
- Mommsen, Tycho. Hessian biography. (As of May 23, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Mommsen, Tycho in the Frankfurt personal dictionary
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mommsen, Tycho |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and grammar school director |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1819 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Garding |
DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1900 |
Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |