Walther Kranz

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Walther Kranz (born November 23, 1884 in Georgsmarienhütte near Osnabrück , † September 18, 1960 in Bonn ) was a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy .

biography

Kranz studied classical philology in Berlin between 1903 and 1907 with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , Hermann Diels and Eduard Norden . He received his doctorate in 1910 with von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. For several years he was a teacher at the experimental Grunewald-Gymnasium in Berlin , where a selection of students received an almost university education. He turned down an offer to become an associate professor for classical philology at the University of Göttingen (1917). 1928-1933 he headed the prestigious boarding high school country Pforta in Schulpforta . From 1932 he began to work at the University of Halle as an honorary professor for the didactics of ancient languages ​​and can thus be considered the first university specialist didactics. He took over the publication of the fragments of the pre-Socratic from the 5th edition of these fragments, the first editions of which had been brought out by Hermann Diels.

After the National Socialists came to power , he experienced political difficulties. His wife was Jewish . He was therefore transferred to a secondary school in 1935 and completely lost his teaching license in 1937. After 1943, the invitation of the University of Istanbul assumed had Kranz took over the chair of history of philosophy and classical philology at this University until 1950. From 1950 to 1955 he was an honorary professor for "teaching of ancient languages and continuing influence of antiquity" at the University of Bonn worked . Its effect extended more to the popularization of ancient education than to subject didactics in the narrower sense. He died in Bonn in 1960.

He was scientifically known because of the edition of Diels' The Fragments of the Pre-Socratic (1951) and his book Stasimon (1933), in which he examined the form and content of Greek tragedy. He also wrote various popularizing works that were also interesting for the scientist, such as B. Pre-Socratic Thinkers , The Culture of the Greeks , History of Greek Literature , Greek Philosophy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Stasimon. Investigations into the form and content of the Greek tragedy , Verlag Weidman, Berlin 1933.
  • History of Greek Literature , Leipzig 1940 a. ö .; 1998 ISBN 3-88059-949-1
  • Greek philosophy: At the same time an introduction to philosophy in general , Leipzig 1941 and so on; 2004 ISBN 3-938484-85-3
  • Studies on ancient literature and its continuation. Small writings , published by Ernst Vogt , Heidelberg 1967 (here p. 501–508 complete list of publications)
  • Empedokles und die Atomistik , Hermes , 47 (1912) pp. 18–42
  • Lucretius and Empedocles , Philologus , 96 (1944) pp. 68-107

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German literary newspaper . Volume 38, No. 2, January 13, 1917, p. 58.
  2. ^ Harry C. Schnur: In Memoriam Walther Kranz In: Classical World, 55: 1 (1961: Oct.) P.9.
  3. ↑ See Stefan Kipf : Historia magistra scholae? Historical educational research as a task of ancient language didactics using the example of text indexing . In: Pegasus online magazine IX / 1 (2009), pp. 1–19 [1]
  4. ^ Harry C. Schnur: In Memoriam Walther Kranz In: Classical World, 55: 1 (1961: Oct.) P.9.
personal data
SURNAME Kranz, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kranz, Walther Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Georgsmarienhütte
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1960
Place of death Bonn