Friedrich Marx
Frederick Marx ( born April 22, 1859 in Bessungen, today Darmstadt, † October 17, 1941 in Bonn ) was a German classical scholar.
Life
Friedrich Marx, the nephew of the architecture professor Erwin Marx (1841-1901), studied from 1877 to 1882 Classical Philology at the Universities of Giessen and Bonn, where his most important teacher Franz Bücheler and Hermann Usener were. In 1882 he received his doctorate in Bonn with a dissertation Studia Luciliana. His habilitation he reached in Berlin in 1887 in John Vahlen. In the following decades he worked for every few years as a professor at various universities: From 1888 to 1889 in Rostock (predecessor Friedrich Leo, successor Richard Reitz stone), 1889-1893 in Greifswald (predecessor Adolph Kiessling, successor Eduard Norden ) of 1893 to 1896 in Breslau ( predecessor Martin Hertz, successor Franz Skutsch ), from 1896 to 1899 in Vienna (predecessor Wilhelm von Hartel, successor Edmund Hauler ), where he was in 1898 elected the corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, 1899-1906 in Leipzig ( predecessor Otto Ribbeck, successor Richard Heinze ). In 1905 he accepted a professorship at the University of Bonn on the chair of his teacher Bücheler, which he followed in 1906. Here Marx remained until his retirement, which took place after the summer semester of 1927. In the academic year 1917/1918 he was rector of the university.
Services
Friedrich Marx regarded as the last representative of the Bonn school of classical philology, as it had been founded by Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl in the 40s of the 19th century. As this and his successor Franz Bücheler understood Marx exegesis and textual criticism as an essential task of philology, while the Leipzig School to Richard Heinze and the Berlin School to Hermann Diels and Werner Jaeger long intellectual history and philosophy sought to anchor in philology. Here, Marx was the linguistic studies of his successor Franz Breslauer Skutsch to the ancient Latin texts critically.
His conservative attitude did not prevent him from creating significant text editions and commentaries, which are still used a lot. This includes his critical edition of the Rhetorica ad Herennium (1894, reprinted 1964, 1966 and 1993), the fragments of the satirist Lucilius ( two volumes, 1894-1895 ), the Diversarum hereseon liber of Filastrius of Brescia (CSEL 1898), the writings of Celsus (1915 ) and Plautus Rudens (1928 ).
From 1925 to 1934, Marx editor of Rhenish Museum of philology, which had previously lain fallow since 1920 by the long illness of the editor August Brinkmann. His Bonner successor Ernst Bickel took over the editorship in 1935 to war-related adjustment of the journal in 1944 and founded her new 1950.
For health reasons, Marx had to restrict his scientific work from 1935. He died on 17 October 1941 at the age of 82 years. He received an honorary grave in the cemetery Poppelsdorfer.