Wilhelm Pökel
Wilhelm Pökel (born October 9, 1819 in Pasewalk , † February 24, 1897 in Prenzlau ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher. He is the author of the Philological Writer's Lexicon (1882), a central reference work for the history of classical philology .
life and work
Wilhelm Pökel was the son of the grammar school teacher Wilhelm Christian Pökel (1791–1840) and the grandson of the teacher and pastor Christian Friedrich Pökel (1758–1804). His father and grandfather had already lived as teachers in the Uckermark. From 1820 onwards, his father worked as a school inspector and preacher in Stargard, where Wilhelm Pökel grew up and attended grammar school. After graduation (September 22, 1837), he moved to Berlin University for the winter semester of 1837/1838 and studied Classical Philology. On October 23, 1841, he passed the teaching examination in the subjects Greek, Latin, philosophical propaedeutics, mathematics, religion, history and geography.
After graduation, Pökel completed the probationary year at the Stargard High School. In addition, he tried to get a doctorate at the University of Tübingen , for which he submitted a dissertation written in Latin on the life of the tragedian Euripides . With this document, which remained unpublished, brine was posted on March 14, 1843 in absentia to Dr. phil. PhD.
After the probationary year, Pökel was employed as a scientific assistant teacher at the Stargard High School. In the fall of 1847 he moved to Prenzlau in the same position, where he was appointed collaborator in 1853 and senior teacher in 1877. He retired on April 1, 1884.
In addition to teaching, Pökel has published relatively few scientific papers. His main work is the Philological Writer's Lexicon (1882, reprint 1966 and 1974), in which he lists the writings of around 3,000 modern philologists and which, according to the author, contains "the work of half a generation". In his retirement, Pökel published some shorter explanatory articles on Aristophanes and the Odyssey .
Pökel also earned the works of his father-in-law, the philologist Karl Wilhelm Krüger (1796–1874). After his death, Pökel published revised versions of Kruger’s textbooks and school editions and published a biography of his father-in-law.
literature
- Wilt Aden Schröder : On the biography of the Prenzlau high school teacher Wilhelm Pökel (1819-1897) . In: Announcements of the Uckermärkisches Geschichtsverein zu Prenzlau . Issue 18/2012, pp. 50–60
Web links
- Literature by Wilhelm Pökel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wilt Aden Schröder: Biogram of Wilhelm Pökel in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center
- Wilhelm Pökel's personnel sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
- Works by and about Wilhelm Pökel in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pökel, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pökel, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pasewalk |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1897 |
| Place of death | Prenzlau |