Arnold Schaefer

Arnold Dietrich Schaefer ( born October 16, 1819 in Seehausen ( today Bremen), † November 19, 1883 in Bonn; Arnold Schaefer) was a German historian who was a professor at the universities of Greifswald ( 1857-1865 ) and Bonn (1865 -1883 ) worked.

Life

After attending the grammar school of Bremen (1833-1838) Schaefer studied at the University of Leipzig Classical Philology and History. Among his academic teachers were Moriz Haupt, Gottfried Hermann and Wilhelm Wachsmuth. After the graduation itself Schaefer turned first to a Old High German habilitation project, inspired by Moriz Haupt. Due to a favorable vacancy of the Privy council Karl Justus Blochmann but he turned to the school office and went as a teacher of classical languages ​​and history at the high school Vitzthumsche to Dresden. Even at this time Schaefer emerged in numerous publications, including the school program Commentatio de libro vitarum decem oratorum (Dresden 1844) and history tables to memorize (Leipzig 1847), a practical manual for students. The work contains important data of world history from antiquity to the present, which are divided into three classes: General History, epochal history and cultural history. By 1888 published 17 updated new editions, the last two (1885 and 1888 ) were concerned by Schaefers colleagues Julius Asbach. To October 15, 1851 Schaefer joined as a high school professor at the Royal Saxon State School in Grimsby. Here he presented the first two volumes of his three -volume work Demosthenes and his time (Leipzig 1856-1858 ) finished on which he had worked for ten years. His farewell speech to the school was over the rim speech of Demosthenes.

On November 30, 1857 Schaefer was appointed professor at the University of Greifswald as professor of history. In his lectures and seminars, for which he founded in 1863 the Department of History, Schaefer treated all eras and fields of history. He stood with colleagues of different subjects in a friendly connection, including the Camera List Eduard Baumstark, the archaeologist Adolf Michaelis and philologists Martin Hertz, Georg Friedrich Schömann and Hermann Usener. A professor at the University of Königsberg, which was issued in 1863 by Wilhelm Giese of Brecht's departure to Schaefer, he refused. Only two years later, he could decide to leave Greifswald, and followed in the summer semester 1865 a professorship at the University of Bonn, where he held the chair of history, especially ancient history, founded on the same time the Department of History until his death. He was the first professor of history, who taught his subject, regardless of the Philological Seminar. In the academic year 1871/72 Schaefer held the Rectorate of the University.

In Bonn Schaefer continued his lectures from Greifswald. As there was the Greek and Roman source study an important part of his teaching, so that he eventually published in 1867 as the basis of his lecture an outline of the source study of Greek history down to Polybius. A second section of the work he published shortly before his death under the title Summary of the source study of Greek and Roman history (Leipzig 1883). His successor, Henry Nissen gave this work in 1885 in a second edition out, which was reprinted in 1967.

Even from Greifswald touched his intense preoccupation with her ​​Prussian history. In his time in Bonn, he published the story of the Seven Years War in three volumes (Berlin 1867-1874 ). The work was praised by the domestic and foreign press for his new version of events. Shortly after the completion of the last volume took Schaefer extensive educational journey through Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Italy. In 1879 he visited the festival of the fiftieth year anniversary foundation of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, 1880, he toured the Peloponnese and especially the Olympics. On the return trip he contracted a severe rheumatism, from which he recovered to Kurreisen. A few weeks after returning from a cure Schaefer died on November 19, 1883 in the middle of the work surprisingly a stroke. His grave is in the Old Cemetery.

In his last years, Schaefer was also preparing a new edition of his Demosthenes plant, which he placed after numerous papyrus finds and emendations in the past thirty years to the latest version. It was published shortly after his death in three volumes ( Leipzig, 1885-1887 ), completed by Max Hoffmann.

His widow, Eugenie Schaefer nee Grossmann founded in 1894 with 100,000 marks the " Arnold Shepherd Foundation ", which means to be promoted from today students and young scientists at the University of Bonn.

Writings (selection )

• Commentatio de libro vitarum decem oratorum. Dresden 1844 ( school program )
• Demosthenes and his time. Drie volumes, Leipzig from 1856 to 1858. Second, revised edition, Leipzig from 1885 to 1887. Reprint Hildesheim 1966 CD -ROM edition, Göttingen: .. Duehrkohp and Radicke 2001 ISBN 3-89744-021-0
• De ephoris Lacedaemoniis. Leipzig 1863
• Disputation de rerum post bellum Persicum usque ad trice dimensional foedus in Graecia gestarum Temporibus. Bonn 1865
• History tables for memorization. 15th ed Arnoldi, Leipzig 1880 ( digitized ).