Walter Henze

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Ernst Walter Henze (born February 1, 1869 in Berlin , † January 10, 1915 in Mariendorf near Berlin ) was a German ancient historian and high school teacher.

Life

Walter Henze's parents were Karl Henze, head of a private school in Berlin, and Flora née Saling. Henze first attended his father's school and then went to the Königliche Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin, where he passed his school leaving examination at Easter 1886. Henze then studied Classical Philology , History and Hebrew Studies at the Berlin University . After two semesters, he moved to the University of Bonn in 1887 , where he attended courses with Eduard Lübbert , Franz Bücheler , Adolf Kamphausen , Hermann Usener and Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz . The events of the archaeologist Carl Robert were particularly influential . In 1888 Henze returned to Berlin, where he heard the philologists Hermann Diels , Johannes Vahlen and Adolf Kirchhoff as well as the historians Hermann Dessau , Emil Hübner , Heinrich von Treitschke and Wilhelm Wattenbach and the philosophers Wilhelm Dilthey and Eduard Zeller . He received his most important influences from the historians Theodor Mommsen , Ulrich Köhler and Otto Hirschfeld . In 1892 he received his doctorate with the dissertation De civitatibus liberis quae fuerunt in provinciis populi Romani ("The free citizenships in the Roman provinces"), which went back to the suggestion of Köhler and Hirschfeld.

After completing his doctorate, Henze took the exams for Latin, Greek and history in January 1893. At Easter of the same year he began a seminar year at the Royal High School in Lichtenberg . He then completed his probationary year at the Royal Luisengymnasium in Berlin . In October 1898 he took a supplementary examination in French, which he taught from then on in the lower school. He received his first permanent position as a senior teacher at the Bismarck-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wilmersdorf in October 1898. On March 16, 1904, he married. His children, a daughter and a son, were born on January 13, 1905 and December 14, 1906. Henze found his position in life as the head of the newly founded grammar school in Mariendorf near Berlin (today Eckener grammar school ) from April 1907, where he was appointed grammar school professor in 1909 and director in 1910.

Henze died after a short illness at the age of 45.

Fonts (selection)

  • De civitatibus liberis quae fuerunt in provinciis populi Romani . Berlin 1892 (dissertation)
  • numerous personal articles in Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswirtschaft (RE), Volume II 2 (1896); III 1 (1897); IV 1 (1900)
  • The social significance of the reform institutions for smaller communities . Berlin 1907

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personal data
SURNAME Henze, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henze, Ernst Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1915
Place of death Berlin-Mariendorf