Wilhelm Heraeus (philologist)

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Grave of Wilhelm Carl Heraeus in the old cemetery Offenbach

Wilhelm Carl Heraeus (born December 4, 1862 in Hamm (Westphalia), † June 4, 1938 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

His father Carl Jesaias (1818-1891), Dr. phil., was the high school director at the Hammonense high school in Hamm and also a classical philologist and Tacitus researcher .

Wilhelm Carl Heraeus began studying Classical Philology, History and German Studies in Marburg that same year after graduating from high school in 1881 at the Hammonense Grammar School , which he continued in Berlin in 1883 . In 1885 he received his doctorate with the dissertation Quaestiones criticae et palaeographicae de vetustissimis codicibus Livianis in Berlin, the state examination followed in 1888. 1888-1891 he was a probationary candidate at the high school in Hanau , since 1891 as an assistant teacher at the high school in Offenbach am Main (1898 final position, 1905 professor title). In 1928 he retired as a senior teacher. From 1908 as a commissioned teacher, from 1914 as a full honorary professor for Vulgar and Middle Latin until the winter semester 1928/29, he held lectures, especially for students of Romance philology, at the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt am Main (since 1914 University ).

In 1903 Wilhelm Heraeus married Julie , daughter of Theodor Stamm, church councilor, dean and pastor in Stockstadt , who would later become one of the only twelve female members of the state parliament in the state parliament of Hesse .

power

Heraeus 'first works concerned the criticism and the emendation of texts, first by Titus Livius , later especially by Valerius Maximus , they found collaboration in the revision of the 2nd volume of his father's annotated school edition of Tacitus' Historiae (1899) at CU Clark's Ammianus Marcellinus edition (1910/15), in the 5th volume of the Livius edition by Wilhelm Weißenborn (1912) and in his large Martial edition (1925). He also added handwritten notes to many text editions (in the possession of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae library in Munich ).

The main achievements of Heraeus, however, are in the field of gloss research and vulgar Latin , of which he was the undisputed expert. His contribution to the Corpus glossariorum Latinorum published by Georg Goetz is only insufficiently expressed in his notes (in Vol. 6 and 7, 1899, 1901) and in the composition of the Index Graeco-Latinus in Vol. 7, as is the famous program in particular of the high school of Offenbach The language Petrons and the glosses (1899) showed. With the Petron edition of Franz Bücheler (1912 and 1922), which he supervised, began his numerous works in the field of Vulgar Latin: A commentary on the Appendix Probi and its edition, since 1908 the publication of the collection of vulgar Latin texts together with H. Morf, in which he himself the Peregrinatio Aetheriae (1908, 1921, 1929) and Petrons Cena Trimalchionis (1909, 1923). Linguistics have been greatly stimulated by his work on special languages. Heraeus' third specialty was that of Latin inscriptions, in which Theodor Mommsen was still his teacher (work on the Edictum Diocletiani, 1897 and 1937). Since 1924 he has also worked as a flag reader for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae . He was a corresponding member of the Society of Sciences in Göttingen (from 1919) and the Medieval Society of America (from 1928).

Fonts

  • Silvae vel potius Aetheriae peregrinatio ad loca sancta . 1908. 3rd edition Winter, Heidelberg 1919.
  • History of the Heraeus family . 1910.
  • (Ed.): Martialis: Epigrammaton libri . Teubner, Leipzig 1925.
  • Small fonts . Winter, Heidelberg 1937.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 111.
personal data
SURNAME Heraeus, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heraeus, Wilhelm Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1938
Place of death Offenbach am Main