Wilhelm Sieveking

Wilhelm Sieveking (full name Georg Wilhelm Sieveking , born July 5, 1895 in Hamburg , † January 4, 1946 ibid) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Georg Wilhelm Sieveking family grave complex in Ohlsdorf cemetery

Wilhelm Sieveking came from a Hamburg merchant family. His father was the lawyer Friedrich Christian Sieveking (1867–1917), his mother was Olga Luise Mönckeberg (1871–1948), the daughter of the Hamburg mayor Johann Georg Mönckeberg (1839–1908). His uncle, his father's brother, Johannes Sieveking , was also an important classical archaeologist who was also involved in ancient studies. Wilhelm Sieveking attended the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg from 1907 to 1913 . After passing his school leaving examination with distinction, he studied classical philology, German and English at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen . Among his most important academic teachers were Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (Berlin) and his pupil Max Pohlenz (Göttingen), who won Sieveking in 1919 as Dr. phil. received his doctorate . In the same year he passed the teaching examination in Latin, Greek, German and English. From 1920 to 1924 Sieveking examined the manuscripts of the Greek writers Aelius Aristides and Plutarch , for which, at Wilamowitz's suggestion, new text editions were to be published by Teubner Verlag .

In 1924 Sieveking went to the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg as a candidate . After a few months he switched to the higher state school in Cuxhaven , where he took the pedagogical examination in 1925 and was appointed to the faculty in 1928. In 1930 he married Susanne Camilla Heymann (1911–?), The daughter of the senior building officer Eduardo Heymann. At Easter 1933 Sieveking returned to Hamburg, where he had got a job at the Johanneum. He taught there until the end of his life. After the end of the Second World War , he was appointed headmaster in 1945 (as deputy senior director). He managed to keep the school running with new classrooms, but he died on January 4, 1946.

Sieveking's main research focus was Greek literature. He contributed to the critical complete edition of Plutarch's Moralia with preliminary work and his own editing services . Together with William Roger Paton and Max Pohlenz he edited the third volume of Plutarch's Moralia (1929); his part in the second volume (1935), the writing De Iside et Osiride , appeared separately in 1932. Sieveking also wrote a literary report on Herodotus over the years 1928-1936 and published several school editions by Latin and Greek authors.

Fonts (selection)

• De Aelii Aristidis oratione εἰς Ῥώμην . Göttingen 1919 (dissertation)
• Plutarchus: Moralia. Vol. 3 . Review et emendaverunt WR Paton, M. Pohlenz et W. Sieveking. Leipzig 1929. Reprint 2001
• Petronius: Cena Trimalchionis in selection . Leipzig / Berlin 1931
• Seneca: Apocolocyntosis. In addition to a selection from Suetons Claudius . Leipzig / Berlin 1932
• Plutarchus: Moralia. Vol. 2,3: De Iside et Osiride . Edidit W. Sieveking. Leipzig 1932 (preprint from: Plutarchus: Moralia. Vol. 2. Leipzig 1935)
• Herodotus. Report on the literature from 1928-1936 . In: Annual report on the progress of classical antiquity . Volume 263, 1938, pp. 100-160
• Plutarch: About love and marriage. A selection from the Moralia . Munich 1941
• Tacitus: The Romans in England. Original texts with German translations . munich 1943

literature

• Hans Oppermann : Wilhelm Sieveking . In: The Johanneum . New series, issue 62 (1965), pp. 65–67 (with picture and list of scriptures)
• German gender book . Volume 142 (1966), p. 430

Web links

• Literature by Wilhelm Sieveking in the catalog of the German National Library