Wilhelm Capelle (philologist)

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Wilhelm August Cornelius Friedrich Capelle (born August 21, 1871 in Hanover , † December 8, 1961 in Hamburg ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Wilhelm Capelle, the son of the high school director and Homer expert Carl Capelle (1841-1912), studied classical philology at the University of Goettingen and was in 1896 Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff with the dissertation De Cynicorum epistulis doctorate . He then worked at the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg, where he was appointed high school professor in 1901. In addition to his teaching activities, he continued his research in the field of Greek philosophy. On June 9, 1920 he achieved his habilitation at the newly founded University of Hamburg , which appointed him private lecturer. Capelle was able to make a living from his academic teaching activities; therefore he retired in 1923 as a high school teacher. In 1926 he was appointed honorary professor. Until 1938 he held lectures at the University of Hamburg.

Capelle's main area of ​​work was Greek philosophy and science and Germanic antiquity. He also wrote translations for numerous authors, which were published many times: Marcus Aurelius , Epictetus , the pre-Socratics , Hippocrates of Kos and Arrian ( Anabasis ). His best-known scientific publication is the monograph Das alten Germanien: Die Nachrichten der Greek und Roman Writers (Jena 1929), which was dedicated to Eduard Norden . Because Norden came from an assimilated Jewish family, this dedication was removed from the second edition in 1937 by the publisher, which Capelle accepted with bitterness.

According to his political views, Capelle belonged to the right-wing spectrum. He was a member of the Ostmarkenverein , the Pan-German Association and the German National People's Party . After the dissolution of the German National People's Party (1933), however, he did not join the NSDAP . In the foreword to the first post-war edition of the self-reflections of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius , which he had translated , Capelle wrote in retrospect of the so-called Third Reich : "[There] things have happened like them to this extent, this everything shaking and almost everything into question Effect [...] in the last 6000 or 7000 years on mankind have never fallen. "

literature

  • Wilhelm Capelle: Introduction to Marc Aurel , self- reflection , Kröner's pocket edition , 4th edition, Stuttgart 1933-1983 (12th edition ISBN 3520004127 ), pp. 1-60 (WC is also the translator of this edition and author of the explanations p. 181ff.)
  • Wilhelm Capelle: The pre-Socratics - The fragments and source reports , Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1968
  • Kürschner's Deutscher Schehrten-Kalender , 10th edition (1966), p. 2808
  • Klaus Alpers , Eva Horváth, Hans Kurig: Philologica Hamburgensia II. Classical philologists in Hamburg from the 17th to the 20th century . Herzberg 1990. Second edition, unpublished manuscript 1996, p. 19
  • Hartmut Erbse : Wilhelm Capelle (1871–1961) . In: Eikasmós 4, 1993, pp. 143-146.
  • Wilt Aden Schröder: Capelle, Wilhelm . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 7 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3579-0 , p. 50-52 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Wilhelm Capelle: Hippocrates. Five Choice Writings (Introduction and Transcription). Zurich 1955.
  2. ↑ Cf. Rainer Hering: Konstruierte Nation. The Pan-German Association 1890 to 1939 . Hamburg 2003, p. 295.
  3. ↑ Preface to: Marc [sic!] Aurel: Self-contemplations . From ancient Greek by Wilhelm Capelle. 8th edition Stuttgart 1953.
personal data
SURNAME Capelle, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Capelle, Wilhelm August Cornelius Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1961
Place of death Hamburg