Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel
Wilhelm Siegmund von Teuffel (born September 27, 1820 in Ludwigsburg , † March 8, 1878 in Tübingen ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Wilhelm Si (e) gmund Teuffel was born in Ludwigsburg in 1820 as the son of the doctor Andreas Teufel. Unlike his father, he already wrote his name with two f in his youth. Teuffel's mother died in 1821, his father in 1829. The then nine-year-old boy was transferred to the royal orphanage in Stuttgart by his stepmother . In the same year he was accepted into the III. Class of the Royal High School, where Teuffel won a school prize every year for his perception and hard work. After graduating in 1834, he decided to study Protestant theology and took up the seminar at Urach Monastery . After four years he was accepted into the monastery for higher theology, which was connected to the University of Tübingen . The study of theology at that time in Urach required extensive study of philosophy, history, mathematics and modern foreign languages from the students.
Although he was not impressed by his lecturers in classical philology, Professors Ernst Christian Walz and Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich Tafel , from Tübingen , Teuffel studied Greek and Latin literature intensively. From his research on Horace in 1840 a price publication emerged, from which in turn the writings Characteristics of Horace, a contribution to the history of literature (Leipzig 1842), Horace, a literary-historical overview (Tübingen 1843) and Prolegomena zur Horazischen Chronologie (journal for ancient science , 1842). Based on these writings, Teuffel received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty with distinction in 1843. He had passed his theological exam in the fall of 1842.
Teuffel spent the first years after graduation as vicar with a related country pastor near Stuttgart, but his penchant for classical studies increasingly dissuaded him from a spiritual career. In the summer of 1844, a travel grant enabled him to undertake a six-month educational trip to northern Germany, which took him to Berlin, where he worked in Heidelberg, Cologne, Bonn, Gießen, Marburg, Göttingen, Eisenach, Gotha, Weimar, Jena, Schulpforta, Halle, Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin, where he stayed for four months. He had turned down offers of habilitation in Halle and Jena. Instead, after his return in the late autumn of 1844 in Tübingen, he achieved his habilitation with the work De Juliano imperatore christianismi contemptore et osore ('Emperor Julian , despiser and hater of Christianity'). He was appointed private lecturer and began teaching at the University of Tübingen in the summer semester of 1845. In the summer of the same year he and Ernst Christian Walz took over the publication of the real encyclopedia of classical antiquity from the late August Friedrich Pauly .
When a chair for Classical Philology in Tübingen became vacant in 1847 after Tafels left, Teuffel applied for the position. However, when the university management decided in favor of the older Albert Schwegler , Teuffel, disappointed, switched to an assistant teacher at the Royal High School in Stuttgart . He worked here for two years. He then went back to Tübingen as a private lecturer and was appointed associate professor on July 19, 1849 after just a few weeks.
After Schwegler, then Walz, had died in 1857, Teuffel was appointed full professor in September 1857 and looked after the archaeological department. In addition to him, the high school teacher Karl Hirzel was appointed full professor and appointed first chairman of the seminar. After Hirzel moved to the Royal High School in Stuttgart as headmaster in 1864, Teuffel was promoted to first chairman of the seminar.
In March 1874 Teuffel took part in an event organized by the Democratic People's Party , where he professed to have certain sympathies for it, "although he was not a democrat himself." "Several students" subsequently protected him against attacks in the daily newspaper "Tübinger Chronik", behind which they suspected different-minded, ie German national "colleagues".
Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel died on March 8, 1878 at the age of 57.
Services
Teuffel's research and publication activities resulted in numerous works that were of pioneering importance for ancient studies in the 19th century. His earliest significant work was the publication of the Real Encyclopedia of Classical Classical Antiquities , which fell into disrepair after the death of its editor August Friedrich Pauly on May 2, 1845. Teuffel got them together with his older colleague Ernst Christian von Walz , until he had to stop working for health reasons in 1847. From then on, Teuffel brought the company to an end on his own. The last part of the volume was published in 1852. He published the first volume in 1864 and 1866 in a second, completely revised edition in two volumes in order to eliminate the "often lamented inequality" of this volume compared to the others (see foreword, p. VI).
Another important work is his History of Roman Literature , the first complete presentation of ancient Latin literature in German. Three editions appeared during Teuffel's lifetime. His colleague Ludwig Schwabe brought out the fourth edition in 1882, which still appeared in a volume. The fifth edition (1890), also by Schwabe, appeared in two volumes. Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch published the sixth and so far last edition of the work in 1910–1913, which shows a volume of four volumes.
Ennoblement
Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel received the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of the Württemberg Crown in 1875 , which was associated with the personal title of nobility.
Works
- History of Roman Literature
- Prolegomena for the chronology of the Horatian history (in Zeitschrift für die Altertumschwissenschaft , 1842)
- Characteristic of Horace . Leipzig 1842
- Horace, a literary-historical overview . Tubingen, 1843
- Studies and characteristics . 1889 (contain valuable contributions to the history of Greek and Roman literature)
literature
- Siegmund Teuffel: Outline of the life of Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel. A contribution to the history of philological studies in Württemberg . Laupp, Tübingen 1889
- Conrad Bursian : Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch (1878)
- Friedrich Koldewey : Teuffel, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 611-615.
- Obituary: Tübingen Chronicle, March 12, 1878
Individual evidence
- ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1877, page 30
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel in the German Digital Library
First chair: David Christoph Seybold (1796–1804) | Karl Philipp Conz (1804–1827) | Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich panel (1827–1846) | Albert Schwegler (1847–1857) | Karl Hirzel (1857–1874) | Ernst von Herzog (1874–1902) | Gotthold Gundermann (1902–1921) | Otto Weinreich (1921–1954) | Hildebrecht Hommel (1955–1964) | Günther Wille (1965–1991) | Heinz Hofmann (1993–2009) | Anja Wolkenhauer (since 2010)
Second chair: Ernst Christian von Walz (1832–1857) | Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (1857–1878) | Erwin Rohde (1878–1886) | Otto Crusius (1886–1898) | Wilhelm Schmid (1898–1926) | Johannes Mewaldt (1927–1931) | Hans Herter (1932–1938) | Friedrich Focke (1939–1946) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1950–1968) Konrad Gaiser (1968–1988) | Thomas A. Szlezák (1990-2006) | Irmgard Männlein-Robert (since 2006)
Extraordinary professorship: Rudolf Herzog (1903–1909) | Adolf von Mess (1909–1916) | Otto Weinreich (1916–1918) | Friedrich Zucker (1918) | Friedrich Pfister (1918–1924) | Friedrich Focke (1925–1939)
Third chair: Ernst Zinn (1956–1978) | Ernst A. Schmidt (1979-2002)
Fourth chair: Konrad Müller (1963–1964) | Hartmut Erbse (1965–1968) | Richard Kannicht (1969–1997)
Fifth chair: Hubert Cancik (1974–2003) | Jürgen Leonhardt (since 2004) | Robert Kirstein (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Teuffel, Wilhelm Siegmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Teuffel, Wilhelm Siegmund von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1878 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |