Wolfgang Passow
Wolfgang Passow (born May 6, 1863 in Altreetz near Königsberg in the Neumark , † March 4, 1901 in Hirschberg in the Riesengebirge ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.
Life
Wolfgang Passow, the son of the medical doctor Moritz Passow († 1873) and grandson of the philologist Franz Passow , came from an old family of pastors and officers. He attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin and, after graduating in 1881, studied classical philology at the Berlin University . From 1882 to 1883 he served as a one-year volunteer and resigned as a reserve lieutenant. Passow spent the summer semester of 1883 at the University of Bonn , where he also attended archaeological events with Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz . After his return he also attended archaeological colleges in Berlin. In the winter semester of 1884/1885 he moved to the University of Göttingen , where Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Hermann Sauppe were his academic teachers. 1886 Passow was the dissertation crimine De βουλεύσεως doctorate ; on November 19, 1887 he passed the teaching examination for the subjects Greek, Latin (both for upper level I) and ancient history (for upper level III). At Easter 1888, Passow began his probationary year at the Sophiengymnasium in Berlin , where he also took a supplementary examination for ancient history (upper level I) and German (lower level II) in November and a supplementary examination for gymnastics in March 1889.
After the end of the probationary year (April 1, 1889), Passow continued to work for six months without a salary as an assistant teacher at the Sophiengymnasium. He earned his first salary from October 1889 as an assistant teacher at the Leibniz Gymnasium in Berlin. On April 1, 1890, Passow was given a permanent position as a "proper teacher" at the royal high school in the small town of Hirschberg in Silesia. Shortly afterwards he married Helene Mithoff. His college friends Georg Wentzel and Friedrich Spiro dedicated two essays to the couple as a wedding present ( The Abduction of Helene , Poseidon's wedding procession ), which were printed as Epithalamion in Göttingen.
On September 17, 1892, Passow was appointed senior teacher in Hirschberg. Here he remained a reserve officer (on November 15, 1894 he was promoted to first lieutenant of the reserve) and devoted himself to his research. In 1897 and 1898 he published two essays De Aristophane defendendo contra invasionem Euripideam ("Defense of Aristophanes against the intrusion of Euripides ") in the school program of his high school . His monograph Studies on the Parthenon was created after the autopsy of the collections in the Royal Museums in Berlin and was dedicated to "[s] a dear woman and understanding assistant". Passow did not live to see the print run. A few weeks after signing the preface on March 4, 1901, he shot himself, as his mentor Wilamowitz claims, after years of depression. His last work was slightly revised by Botho Graef and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, who accepted it as the 17th issue of the Philological Studies , and published posthumously in 1902.
swell
- Vita of Wolfgang Passow in the dissertation (p. 54) .
- Personnel sheet from Wolfgang Passow in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Educational History Research (BBF).
- Wolfgang Passow: Studies on the Parthenon , Berlin 1902, pp. VIII – XI.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Complete digitization at the Internet Archive .
- ↑ Wilamowitz in Passow (1902) pp. X – XI.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Passow, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Passow, Gotthold Friedrich Wolfgang (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and high school teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altreetz , Neumark |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1901 |
| Place of death | Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains |