Wolfgang Luppe

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Heinrich Karl Wolfgang Luppe (born August 7, 1931 in Dessau ; † December 27, 2014 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German papyrologist and classical philologist , who was particularly international for his research on Greek literary papyri and his difficult work as a scientist in the GDR Gained notoriety.

Life

Youth and family

Wolfgang Luppe was born in Dessau in 1931 as the younger of the two sons of senior teacher Gerhard Luppe and his wife Irmgard . He was the great-grandson of the Prince Educator Karl Luppe and, through his grandmother Gertrud Luppe (née Kunze), a descendant of the poets Stephan Kunze and Sebastian Brant and the historians Joachim Gottwalt and Caspar Abel . His only brother was the future architect and chairman of the Freiburg Peace Week. V. Horst Luppe (1928-2015). After the bombing of Dessau on March 7, 1945 and the destruction of the house built by Luppe's great-great-grandfather at Amalienstraße 13, the family moved to Köthen to see their father's grandmother, where she was housed as a pastor's widow in the Gisela-Agnes-Stift for noble ladies.

Working in the GDR

In 1951 Luppe passed his Abitur at the Willy Lohmann School in Köthen and then worked after a short training as a teacher at a primary school in Bernburg . He then studied classical philology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg from autumn 1952 , with Werner Peek and Erich Reitzenstein among others . In 1957 he completed his studies with the state examination and then worked for two years as a research assistant on the research assignment "Nonnos" at the Institute for Classical Studies at MLU. From 1959 he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Classical Studies and was in 1964 with a dissertation on fragments of the comic poet Cratinus Dr. phil. PhD . For political reasons, however, he was denied a habilitation during the entire GDR period .

Traveling to international congresses was associated with special difficulties for Luppe. While he was briefly recognized as a non-party scientist as a travel cadre in the 1970s , the State Security prevented further trips abroad from 1977 to 1986 . After no permission to leave for the international papyrology congress in Naples was granted in 1983 , the GDR was publicly criticized there for its refusal. After a later application for a trip to the Netherlands was unsuccessful, the Dutch ambassador turned to the GDR General Secretary Erich Honecker , and made it clear that Honecker's promises made during his visit to the Netherlands in 1987 were not very credible if the internationally recognized scientist Wolfgang Luppe was not allowed to travel to the congress in Groningen . As a result, Luppe was granted various top-level trips during the last years of the GDR.

Post-turnaround time

Luppe was only able to complete his habilitation in 1990 after the political change . Luppe became a member of a personnel committee of the MLU with the aim of finding former Stasi employees in the ranks of the university and, if necessary, dismissing them. He also publicly campaigned against membership of former Stasi employees in the Mommsen Society on the grounds that those who had previously been disabled had little understanding for having their former disabled people next to them. In 1992 he lectured for one semester at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and in the same year was appointed Professor of Classical Philology with special emphasis on papyrology at Martin Luther University , where he continued to research into his final years.

Wolfgang Luppe was married to the classical philologist Ingeburg Luppe (née Lohse), with whom he had four children. He died on December 27, 2014 and was buried in Hallesches Laurentiusfriedhof .

Research and writings

Luppes research center, the Robertinum on Universitätsplatz (Halle)

Luppe's research focus was on the Greek literary papyri. He has published around 500 essays, including on the Euripides hypothesis, performances of tragedies and comedies, the Herculan Philodem papyrus, Poseidipp epigrams, Diktys Cretensis papyri, on mythology and many reviews on Oxyrhynchus papyri volumes.

Others

Professor Doctor Wolfgang Luppe in Halle should not be confused with his fourth cousin of the same name, born on the same day but in 19 4 1 , city councilor of Ladenburg and local chairman of the FDP, the businessman Wolfgang Luppe. Wolfgang Luppe in Halle was the nephew of the genealogist and pastor from Anhalt, Hermann Luppe (1892-1936), who in turn must not be confused with his third uncle Hermann Luppe (1874-1945), the mayor of Nuremberg, who was deposed by the National Socialists.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 18th edition (2001), p. 1962.
  • Michael Hillgruber , Rainer Lenk, Stefan Weise (eds.): Hypotheseis. Festschrift for Wolfgang Luppe on his 80th birthday. In: Archives for Papyrus Research and Related Areas . Vol. 57, no. 2 (2011).
  • Michael Hillgruber: Wolfgang Luppe † In: Gnomon . Vol. 89 (2017), pp. 92-95.
  • Ingeburg and Wolfgang Luppe: Prof. Dr. Erich Reitzenstein , Full Professor of Classical Philology . In: Włodzimierz Appel (ed.): “Magistri et discipuli”. Chapter on the history of classical studies in the 20th century (= Xenia Toruniensia. Vol. VII). Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 2002, pp. 77-85.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c obituary notice , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Halle / Saalkreis, January 3, 2015, website saying goodbye , accessed on January 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Martin Kessler: The ancestors of pastor Hermann Kunze in Prödel (1836–1923) and his wife Anna geb. Färber (1842-1919) , Stuttgart 1982
  3. ↑ http://angebote.badische-zeitung.de/trauer/trauerangebote-und-nachrechte/horst-luppe , accessed on October 6, 2018
  4. ↑ http://angebote.badische-zeitung.de/trauer/trauerangebote-und-nachrechte/horst-luppe-x1x , accessed on October 6, 2018
  5. ↑ a b Wolfgang Luppe: Fragments of Kratinos. Text and commentary , Halle 1964
  6. ↑ Michael Hillgruber , Rainer Lenk, Stefan Weise (eds.): Hypotheseis. Festschrift for Wolfgang Luppe on his 80th birthday. In: Archives for Papyrus Research and Related Areas . Vol. 57, No. 2 (2011)
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Luppe: Hypothesis on the dramas of Euripides with special consideration of the papyrus finds , Halle 1990
  8. ^ Minutes of the general meeting of the Mommsen Society on May 22, 1991
  9. ^ The University of Michigan: Library Newsletter , Sep. 28, 1992, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Luppe, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German papyrologist and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2014
Place of death Halle (Saale)