Wilhelm Clemm
Wilhelm Ludwig August Theodor Clemm (born December 28, 1843 in Gießen ; † September 21, 1883 there ) was a German classical philologist who mainly taught in Gießen.
Life
Wilhelm Clemm, the brother of entrepreneurs Carl Clemm (1836–1899) and August von Clemm (1837–1910), had suffered from a bone disease from early childhood that made it impossible for him to attend school. From 1854 to 1856 he was housed in a pedagogical institution in Cannstatt , where he acquired the ability to walk, so that at Easter 1856 he could go to the Giessen high school. He passed his school leaving examination in 1862 with distinction. From May 9th he studied at the Hessian Ludwig University ( Ludwig Lange ). In 1862 he became active in the Corps Hassia Gießen . As an inactive , he moved to the University of Leipzig ( Georg Curtius ) in 1864 and to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ( Friedrich Ritschl , Otto Jahn and Arnold Dietrich Schaefer ) Classical Philology and Archeology in 1865 . When Ritschl left the university in the course of the Bonn philologists dispute and went to Leipzig, Clemm followed him and was decisively influenced by him, Curtius and Johannes Overbeck in the last year of his studies. He obtained his exam in the winter semester of 1866/1867 in Giessen; in May 1867 he applied for a doctorate and habilitation in Leipzig; With his writing De compositis Graecis, quae a verbis incipiunt , he received his doctorate in July with the grade summa cum laude . He did not achieve his habilitation until May of the following year, as his physical ailment forced him to take longer courses and recovery.
In the winter semester of 1868/1869 Clemm began teaching at the University of Giessen. In 1871 he was appointed associate professor and in 1874 (after the departure of Eduard Lübbert ) as full professor and co-director of the philological seminar. In the spring of 1883 he received a call to the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague , which he turned down. After his health had deteriorated noticeably at this time, an acute outbreak of Bright's disease (a form of nephritis ) put an end to his life shortly before the beginning of the winter semester of 1883/1884.
Clemm dealt in particular with Greek and Latin grammar and etymology, but emphasized the philological focus of his work in contrast to linguistics , which developed gradually. His inaugural lecture in Giessen (1872) was entitled "On the task and position of classical philology, especially its relationship to comparative linguistics". He also published a number of essays in the epigraphic and literary fields, especially on Alkman , Hesiod , Euripides and Plautus .
Fonts (selection)
- De compositis Graecis, quae a verbis incipiunt . Giessen 1867 (dissertation)
- On the task and position of classical philology, especially its relation to comparative linguistics . Giessen 1872
- The latest research in the field of Greek Composita . In: Studies on Greek and Latin Grammar . Volume 7, Leipzig 1875, pp. 1-99
- De fragmento quodam Alcmanico commentatio . Giessen 1876
- Miscellanea critica . Giessen 1879
literature
- Nekrolog von Hermann Schiller, in: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Alterthumskunde , 6th year (1883), pp. 12-17.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 97 , 742
Web links
Chair I (since 1962 focus on Greek studies ): Friedrich Karl Rumpf (1809–1823) | Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1825–1858) | Ludwig Lange (1859–1871) | Eduard Lübbert (1871–1874) | Adolf Philippi (1874-1893) | Eduard Schwartz (1893–1897) | Albrecht Dieterich (1897–1903) | Erich Bethe (1903–1906) | Alfred Körte (1906–1913) | Rudolf Herzog (1913–1936) | Albrecht von Blumenthal (1940–1945) | Gerhard Müller (1962–1976) | Egert Pöhlmann (1976–1980) | Manfred Landfester (1980–2002) | Peter von Möllendorff (since 2003)
Chair II (since 1962 focus on Latin studies ): Heinrich Friedrich Pfannkuche (1803–1832) | Wilhelm Clemm (1874-1883) | Johannes Schmidt (1883-1892) | Richard Reitzenstein (1892-1893) | Gotthold Gundermann (1893–1902) | Richard Wünsch (1902–1907) | Otto Immisch (1907–1913) | Karl Kalbfleisch (1913–1934) | Wilhelm Süß (1934–1940) | Andreas Thierfelder (1941–1943) | Vinzenz Buchheit (1962–1989) | Jochem Küppers (1990-1997) | Helmut Krasser (since 1999)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clemm, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clemm, Wilhelm Ludwig August Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | to water |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1883 |
| Place of death | to water |