Wilhelm Furtwängler (classical philologist)

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Wilhelm Furtwängler's house next to the Freiburg District Court , birthplace of Adolf Furtwängler

Wilhelm Furtwängler (* 10. November 1809 in Gütenbach , † 8. March 1875 in Freiburg ) was a German classical philologist and secondary school - teachers .

Life

Wilhelm Furtwängler, member of the Furtwängler family , was the son of the freight carrier and farmer Bartholomäus Furtwängler (1772–1845) from Gütenbach, his brother was the organ builder Philipp Furtwängler (1800–1867). He attended the Lyceum in Freiburg and studied several semesters Theology at the University of Freiburg until he located the classical studies turned. To this end, he continued his studies with Friedrich Thiersch at the University of Munich . After completing his studies, he joined the Greek Minister of War Wilhelm von Le Suire as a private tutor and interpreter in 1834 - mediated by Thiersch - which gave him the opportunity to study the monuments of ancient Greece. After serving in Greece, he went on a trip to Italy, from which he returned to Germany in 1835. In 1836 he passed his state examination and then worked as a teacher in Konstanz , where he was appointed professor in 1838. In the same year he married his wife Christiane geb. Schmidt. In 1841 he was transferred to the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium Heidelberg , where he met Johann Christian Felix Bähr and Friedrich Creuzer . This was followed by a transfer to Mannheim in 1844 and back to Konstanz in 1848, where Furtwängler published his first work, Der reitende Charon , the following year . In 1852 he finally became a teacher at the Lyceum in Freiburg, where he had already been a student. In 1863 he took over the school management there . Since then he has published increasingly on the subjects of Greek literature and mythology until he became director of the Lyceum in 1868. His sons were the classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) and the businessman Robert Hermann Henry Furtwängler (1855-1924).

Fonts

  • The riding Charon. A mythological treatise. 2 booklets. Stadler, Konstanz 1849/1850 (program of the Grand Ducal Lyceum and the Higher Citizens School in Constanz).
  • The idea of ​​death in the myths and art monuments of the Greeks. Friedrich Wagner, Freiburg im Breisgau 1855 ( digitized version ). 2nd edition 1860, with an appendix: The most important ideas of the Greeks about the state of the soul after death in relation to the knowledge and belief of the present ( digitized version ).
  • The Victory Chants of Pindaro explained in a selection according to the essential points of view. Friedrich Wagner, Freiburg im Breisgau 1859 ( digitized version ).
  • Ceremonial address given on January 4, 1866 at the opening of the new Lyceum building. Course of development and task of the institution. Wangler, Freiburg im Breisgau 1866.
  • Nekrolog Prof. Dr. Carl Grieshaber: died December 20, 1866. Wangler, Freiburg im Breisgau 1867.

literature

  • Franz Leopold Dammert: Wilhelm Furtwängler . In: Baden biographies . First part. Bassermann, Heidelberg 1875, pp. 274-276 ( digitized version ).

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