Wilhelm Studemund

Wilhelm Studemund

Adolph Friedrich Wilhelm Studemund (born July 3, 1843 in Stettin , † August 8, 1889 in Breslau ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Youth and studies in Berlin and Halle

Wilhelm Studemund was the son of the Stettin merchant August Wilhelm Studemund and his wife Auguste Busch. He had two older sisters, Louise Henriette (1837–1842) and Clara Julie (1842–1868). Wilhelm Studemund grew up in Stettin and first attended secondary school, then the Marienstiftsgymnasium , where Albert Gustav Heydemann and Karl Ernst August Schmidt shaped him. After graduation (autumn 1860) Studemund studied Classical Philology at Berlin University under August Boeckh and Moriz Haupt , who inspired him to study the Roman historians. After three semesters, Studemund moved to Halle . Here he came into close contact with Theodor Bergk , who shaped him scientifically and remained connected to him until his death. During a brief return to Berlin (1862/1863) Studemund heard historical, German and philosophical lectures, among others with Theodor Mommsen , who significantly influenced and promoted his further career.

He received his degree in Halle, where he was twenty on 4 February 1864, the thesis De canticis Plautinis doctorate was. In his doctoral thesis he put forward the thesis that the controversial metric of the Plautinian pieces can be reliably determined by sighting the Ambrosian palimpsest .

Four years in Italy (1864–1868)

In order to investigate this assumption, Studemund went after the Examen pro facultate docendi (July 30, 1864) on a multi-year trip to Italy, where he looked through Latin manuscripts in various libraries. One result of his work was the editio princeps of the comedy Vidularia (published in Greifswald 1870), which has only survived in the library in Milan in the difficult-to-read Ambrosian palimpsest. On behalf of Theodor Mommsen , Studemund examined the palimpsest of the lawyer Gaius in Verona from 1867 to 1868 . He published the copy in 1874. This was the first time that he put the study of the lawyer on a secure footing. In recognition of this achievement, the University of Greifswald awarded him an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law in the same year.

First professorships in Würzburg and Greifswald (1868–1872)

Studemund gained a high reputation for his palaeographic and editorial work. That is why he was appointed as associate professor at the University of Würzburg in the summer of 1868 at the instigation of Karl Felix Halms - without having completed his habilitation . Studemund followed the call, began his lectures in autumn 1868 and was appointed full professor in April 1869. In March 1870 he moved to the University of Greifswald as the successor to Franz Bücheler .

Professorship in Strasbourg (1872–1885)

Two years later (March 1872) Wilhelm Studemund went to the newly founded Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg , where he stayed for thirteen years. As director of the philological seminar and chairman of the scientific examination commission, he promoted the training of Alsatian high school teachers, campaigned with great success for the mutual recognition of examination certificates among the German states and supervised dozens of dissertations. Ten volumes of the series Dissertationes philologicae Argentoratenses selectae (1879–1886) alone were published. Because of his success, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands also turned to Studemund for help in reorganizing their school system and awarded him numerous medals. The Prussian governor in Alsace-Lorraine, Field Marshal Baron Edwin von Manteuffel , also valued Studemund's advice and often consulted him in negotiations and administrative issues. Studemund was then exposed to numerous hostilities and had many opponents at the university. Scientifically, however, the Strasbourg years were a fruitful time. Studemund pushed ahead with the evaluation of his finds in the Italian libraries and published studies on Plautinian metrics and textual criticism as well as on the grammar of Old Latin . In 1877 he turned down a call to the University of Heidelberg because, despite his efforts, the Baden examination certificates were not recognized by the Prussian government.

Late years in Breslau (1885–1889)

When his trusted colleague Rudolf Schöll moved to Munich in 1885, Studemund left Strasbourg in the autumn of the same year and accepted an appointment at the University of Breslau . There he worked for four years as head of the philological seminar, curator of the student library and professor of eloquence. Studemund continued to render great merits in his restless activity. However, due to his unswerving views, which he pursued both stubbornly and friendly, many colleagues considered him a difficult conversation partner. Above all, he was accused of taking away students' interest in philology by letting them work on boring and irrelevant texts.

In the summer of 1888, Wilhelm Studemund fell ill with cancer and went to Berlin for two operations. He then went back to work, but had to undergo two more operations in the spring of 1889. Now that it was evident that his illness was incurable, Studemund worked tirelessly to finish his work. When his friends and relatives asked him to take it easy, he would reply: “Death does not wait.” He also continued to fulfill his teaching duties. In the last months of his life, Studemund was appointed Privy Councilor and a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences . On the occasion of his 25th doctoral jubilee, his former students from Greifswald, Würzburg, Strasbourg and Breslau dedicated a commemorative publication to him in the form of scientific commentaries on problems in classical philology. Studemund died in Breslau on August 8, 1889. Three days later he was buried in the churchyard of the Bernardine parish in front of the Ohlauer Tor. The St. Bernard Church and the cemetery with Studemund's grave were destroyed on Easter Monday 1945 in the course of Soviet bombing. At the request of his widow, his extensive library came to the university libraries in Breslau and Berlin.

Wilhelm Studemund's life's work is the deciphering of the fragments of Plautus and Gaius in Milan and Verona. The series of Breslau philological treatises founded by him was continued by his colleague Richard Foerster . Much of his important library was incorporated into the holdings of the Royal Library at the University of Wroclaw, including, on behalf of his widow, Studemund's collections on the institutions of Gaius and the writings of Fronto, the latter with a facsimile of the original palimpsests made by Studemund . Wilhelm Studemund was a Privy Councilor and a member of numerous academies, including the Prussian Academy of Sciences, the Netherlands Academy of Sciences and the Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople.

marriage and family

Wilhelm Studemund was married twice and had two daughters. Shortly before taking up his position in Strasbourg, he had married the Greifswald merchant's daughter Marie Springborn in Stuttgart. She died on December 27, 1880, the marriage remained childless. Studemund married again in 1882. His second wife Marie, b. Wurster (1859–1941), was a sister of the chemist Casimir Wurster . The marriage had two daughters. The older daughter Marie (* Strasbourg 1883; † Neuilly-sur-Seine 1909; complete: Marie Auguste Elisabeth) was married to the French psychiatrist and doctor Félix-Albert Devaux and was the mother of the high-ranking financial politician Gilbert Devaux. The second daughter Emmie (1884-1958; complete: Emmie Clara) was a sometimes successful writer under the pseudonym Catherina Godwin . Studemund's widow Marie Wurster married the renowned pharmacologist Wilhelm Filehne for the second time on March 8, 1892 , and the best witnesses were the pharmacist Theodor Poleck and the pathologist Emil Ponfick , both rectors of the University of Wroclaw in those years. However, the marriage ended in divorce after just eleven months. With Wilhelm Studemund's death, the Stettin line of the Studemund family dried up in the male line.

literature

• Leopold Cohn :  Studemund, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 721-731.
• August Rossbach : Necrology on Professor Dr. W. Studemund , in: Chronicle of the Royal University of Breslau for the financial year 1889/90 . Breslau, Grass, Barth & Comp., 1889.
• Edward Adolf Sonnenschein: Obituary Wilhelm Studemund , in: The Classical Review III, 8, 1889, pp. 377–378.
• Rudolf Schöll: Nekrolog auf Wilhelm Studemund. in: "Archive for Latin Lexicography and Grammar", Jg. 1889, pp. 599–604.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Studemund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Wilhelm Studemund  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Studemund in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Wilhelm Studemund in the state bibliography MV
• Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of Wilhelm Studemund in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center

Remarks

1. ↑ Vita in: De canticis Plautinis. Diss., Halle 1864, p. 95
2. ^ Leopold Cohn :  Studemund, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 721-731.
3. ^ Rudolf Schöll: Nekrolog auf Wilhelm Studemund in: "Archive for Latin Lexicography and Grammar", Jg. 1889, pp. 599-604.
4. ↑ August Roßbach: Nekrolog auf Professor Dr. W. Studemund . In: Chronicle of the Royal University of Wroclaw for the financial year 1889/90. Breslau, Grass, Barth & Comp., 1889
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Andreas student: Catherina Godwin. Again and again me and me. In: Wortwelle Blog. Retrieved January 30, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Commentationes in honorem Guilelmi Studemund quinque abhinc lustra summos in philosophia honores adepti conscripserunt discipuli Gryphisvaldenses, Herbopolitani, Argentinenses, Vratislavienses ad VI Id. Febr. Strasbourg, Heitz 1889.
7. ↑ August Roßbach: Nekrolog auf Professor Dr. W. Studemund . In: Chronicle of the Royal University of Wroclaw for the financial year 1889/90. Breslau, Grass, Barth & Comp., 1889 .; EA Sonnenschein: Orbituary Wilhelm Studemund, in: The Classical Review III, 8, 1889, pp. 377-378
8. ↑ Meeting reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1890. First half volume January - May. Berlin, Publishing House of the Royal Academy of Sciences, commissioned by Georg Reimer 1890.
9. ↑ Annual report “The Advances in Classical Classical Studies”, Vol. 65, pp. 451-2. Calvary, Berlin 1891.
10. ^ Andreas pupil: Catherina Godwin. First part of the eventful life. In: Wortwelle Blog. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .