Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl ( born April 6, 1806 Großvargula ( Thuringia), † November 9, 1876 in Leipzig ) was a German philologist Classic, the professor in Halle ( 1829-1833 ), Breslau ( 1833-1839 ), Bonn (1839 -1865 ) and Leipzig ( 1865-1876 ) worked. He is considered the founder of the Bonn school of classical philology, which primarily devoted to the textual criticism.
Friedrich Ritschl explored the basics of Altlatein and wrote an almost overwhelming abundance of studies on the languages , culture and writers of ancient Greece and Rome and to grammatical and linguistic history questions.
Life
Friedrich Ritschl was born in Großvargula in Thuringia, the son of a Protestant pastor. His ancestors came from the original Bohemian knights Ritschl Hart Bach. He went to high school in Erfurt and Wittenberg, and studied philology in 1825 at the University of Leipzig, where he was active in the Corps Lusatia. In 1826 he moved to the University of Halle, where he received his doctorate and then for four years as a professor was in 1829. At 27, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Wroclaw. For him influential was a long study trip to Italy 1836-37, where he took a holistic approach to culture, art and language of antiquity through the philology also possible. In the spring of 1839 he went to the University of Bonn.
There he taught for almost 26 years classical languages. He dominated the philological faculty, which he led nominally together with Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker. As the successor of Welcker he took over in 1854, the University Library and co-chaired by Otto Jahn until 1861, the Academic Art Museum. The good reputation of his seminars attracted many students who later became famous scholar himself.
Among his outstanding students in Bonn and later in Leipzig were, inter alia, Georg Curtius, Wilhelm Ihne, Franz Emil Jungmann, Karl Henry Keck, Henry Stürenburg, August Schleicher, Diederich Volkmann, Jacob Bernays, Otto Ribbeck, Ottokar Lorenz, John Vahlen, Wolfgang Hubner, Franz Bücheler, Otto Benndorf, Ernst Windisch. After conflicts with Otto Jahn, what became known as the "Bonn philologists war" in the history of the University of Bonn University, he left in 1865 the Prussian Bonn and took in the Kingdom of Saxony a professorship at the University of Leipzig. Its most well known student in Bonn and Leipzig, Friedrich Nietzsche, whose academic career he particularly promoted and which he helped to the first professorship in Basel. Friedrich Ritschl taught in Leipzig until 1875, and died there at the age of 70 years.
His collection of about 6,000 dissertations on scientific subjects antiquity came in 1878 as a gift to the Cambridge University Library, where it forms the Ritschl Collection.
Works
- The Alexandrian libraries under the first Ptolemies and the collection of the Homeric poems by Pisistratus according to the instructions of a plautischen Schofield Lions; Wroclaw 1838
- Priscae Latinitatis monumental Epigraphica. Tabulae Lithographicae; 1862; Reprint, 1968 ( ISBN 3-11-001417-3 )
- Priscae Latinitatis epigraphicae Supplementa quinque; 1862-1864; Reprint, 1970 ( ISBN 3-11-001423-8 )
- Opuscula logica philo; 5 vols, 1867-1879 ( with the help of Alfred spot iron)
- Plautus; 4 vols, 1871-1894
- Rhenish Museum of Philology. Journal of Classical Philology; hg. v. FW Ritschl [ of 1842-1869 ], JD Sauerland 's Verlag, Frankfurt am Main