August Rossbach

August Rossbach ( born August 26, 1823 in Schmalkalden, Electorate of Hesse, † July 23, 1898 in Breslau) was a German professor of Classical Philology and Classical Archaeology in Wroclaw.

Life

As the son of school inspector and school rector Johann Georg Rossbach and the merchant's daughter Amalie nee summer Rossbach received his first lessons from his father. He attended the public school and the Progymnasium under his father and was admitted in 1840 to the Domgymnasium Fulda. At the suggestion of his teacher Nicolaus Bach and Friedrich Franke is Rossbach decided after the matriculation examination in 1844 to study classical philology and Protestant Theology at the University of Leipzig.

Studies in Leipzig and Marburg

In Leipzig, Rossbach soon focused entirely on philology. The greatest influence exerted on him Gottfried Hermann, who took him in the third term in its Greek society. In addition, Rossbach attended lectures by Anton Westermann and Wilhelm Adolf Becker. After his father's death ( 1845), Rossbach in 1846 moved to the University of Marburg, as legitimate it a few semesters at a university Kurhessian for inclusion in the Hessian government service. In Marburg he heard archaeological and linguistic lectures by Joseph Rubino and Johann Gildemeister. Theodor Bergk took him into the Philological Society, where Rossbach students Rudolf Westphal met, with whom he worked closely from now on. Both were concerned with comparative linguistics and metrics and planned together a career at the university.

On May 26, 1848 Rossbach was the state exam for the higher teaching. Shortly after his mother died. Rossbach lasted until the end of the year in Schmalkalden on and then furthered his studies in Marburg. In October 1849, he was an intern at the high school to Hanau and taught with great success. However, since there was no prospect of a permanent job, he returned in 1850 returned to the University of Marburg and lived in Westphal's parents' house in Upper churches. On April 30, 1851 Rossbach received at his own request his release from the Hessian State services.

Tübingen

In order to find an approach for their academic career, went Rossbach and Westphal 1851 with her fellow students Charles Damian Ahaz of garlic Hatzbach at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. There Westphal and Rossbach were briefly doctorate and habilitation in succession the following year. Ross Bach's habilitation was based on a record of Pirithous and Theseus. The associated theories were strongly contested by the Tübingen philology professor Ernst Christian Walz in the defense, which lasted seven hours. But Rossbach prevailed and was appointed jointly with Westphal as Assistant Professor of Classical Philology.

As Tübingen lecturer Rossbach lectured on Greek and Roman writers and in 1854 systematic colleges. At the same time, he worked from his first monograph, studies of the Roman marriage (Stuttgart 1853), in which he applied the methods of comparative linguistics and so became a pioneer of comparative cultural studies. The following year (1854 ) he published a critical edition of Catullus, and the first band of Greek metric, which he wrote with Westphal. On February 6, 1855 Rossbach was to A.O. Professor appointed. In the same year he published an edition of Tibullus seals.

Breslau

In the summer of 1856 Rossbach followed the call of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau to the chair of philology and archeology, which was vacant after the death of Joseph Julius Athanasius Ambroschs. This Rossbach was a family entertained and his fiancee Auguste Westphal, the sister of his friend get married. On September 29, 1856, he joined the professorship in Breslau.

In addition to his philological and archaeological teaching Rossbach has held one of the two chairs of eloquence and worked as a result, speeches and manifestos for the University of. He was a member of the scientific board of examiners and directed the Museum of Art and Archaeology, which had justified its predecessor Ambrosch. Rossbach arranged and enlarged the collections of the museum, which he designed an instrument of archaeological training of its students. 1861, for the 50th anniversary of the university, he published a catalog of plaster casts of the museum. His merits were recognized on December 8, 1861 with the appointment of a corresponding member of the Royal Archaeological Institute.

His lectures focused on Greek literature, art and cultural history. Unlike his colleague Friedrich Haase Rossbach put more emphasis on large surveys than on wealth of detail. An early broken out eye condition also prevented him to include all scientific new releases. His services to the city and University of Wroclaw remain uncontested. 1866/67 he was rector of the university. He won Wilhelm I ( Prussia ) for the founding of the museum fine arts Wroclaw. In winter 1869/1870 Rossbach undertook a study trip to Italy.

Rossbach died at the age of 75 after a long illness. His students included the art historian Alwin Schultz and archaeologists and philologists Blümner Hugo and Richard Foerster and his son, the archaeologist Otto Rossbach.