Christian Karl Reisig
Karl Christian twigs ( born November 17 1792 in Weissensee ( Thuringia), † January 17, 1829 in Venice ) was a German philologist Classic.
Life
Karl Christian brushwood, the son of a wealthy physician, received his first instruction from his father and in 1805 attended the convent school Roßleben. After the final examination, he referred in the fall of 1809, the University of Leipzig, where he studied philology. Gottfried Hermann encouraged him to become involved with Greek literature and took him in the first semester in his Societas Graeca. 1812 published twigs together with the students August Meineke a critical edition of Xenophon economicus, in which he glorified his teacher Gottfried Hermann and his senior colleagues Christian Daniel Beck strongly criticized. Because of the waves with that caught this writing, left brushwood Leipzig and went to the University of Göttingen. Here he continued his studies and specialized in the comic playwright Aristophanes.
The popular uprising against Napoleon (1813 ) brushwood left the university to participate as a volunteer in the Saxon army in the wars of liberation. He was soon promoted to sergeant, but took until 1815 no part in the fighting. He studied further with Aristophanes and published in 1816 the book Coniectaneorum in Aristophanem liber I, with which he presented the textual criticism of the poet to a whole new foundation. Due to this work, he was established in August 1817 by the University of Jena Dr. phil. doctorate. In January 1818 followed ibid. his habilitation. As a participant in the wars of liberation and as a young lecturer who spoke Latin and Greek fluently, he was very popular with the students. In 1820 he got to know Goethe, who visited him in Jena.
As the number of students at the University of Jena since the assassination of Karl Ludwig Sands (1819 ) steadily declined, sticks came in financial distress. As an associate professor he barely enough for subsistence deserved, and with declining student numbers also fell lecture fees. That's why he tried to transfer to a Prussian university. In the fall of 1820 brushwood was appointed at the University of Halle- Wittenberg to associate professor. Following the example of his teacher Hermann Leipzig he taught at Halle a Societas Graeca, the most famous members of Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, Agathon Benary and Friedrich Haase were.
1824, after the death of August Seidler, brushwood was appointed full professor. However, he was not involved in the seminar Directorate, which took over the venerable Professor Christian Gottfried Schütz (1747-1832) together with Seidler's successor Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier. To compensate for this reset, brushwood set up a Tutorial on the Latin disputation, the increasingly expired the seminar the rank. A call to the Christian -Albrechts- University of Kiel (1826 ), he lashed out, as are the Mitdirektion the seminar, which was offered to him then.
In his time Halle advanced sticks his antique scientific knowledge significantly. He planned to unite the Leipzig grammatical training with the Boeckhschen property philology and dealt intensively with about Greek art and epigraphy. An educational trip to Italy was granted to him in 1828 by the government. So traveled twigs in autumn 1828 Leipzig and Munich to Venice, where he arrived in November and worked in the Marcus Library. Shortly thereafter, he became seriously ill. A doctor, whom his companion Karl Ferdinand Ranke took, " nervous fever " diagnosed, but could not help twigs. After the fever had disappeared on New Year's Day in 1829, died on 17 January brushwood.