Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch

Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch ( born November 22, 1790 in Wittenberg, † July 22, 1861 in Leipzig ) was a classical scholar.

Life

Georg Wilhelm Nitzsch was born as the youngest son of the former pastor, General Superintendent and first director of the Royal Protestant Seminary in Wittenberg, Karl Ludwig and Luise Nitzsch (born Werndorf ) on November 22, 1790 in Wittenberg. After visiting the country Pforta from 1806-1812 he participated in the Wittenberg University to study theology and changed during his studies to classical philology.

During the liberation war, he took part in fighting in Flanders and northern France and took over after his return in June 1814 a teaching job at Wittenberg College. In 1817 he moved to the high school Francisceum in Zerbst, where he was a vice-principal point. He returned in 1820 in the same position back to the Wittenberg School. Here Nitzsch began to publish his first philological work in 1827 brought in him a call to the chair of classical philology and rhetoric at the University of Kiel, where he Dr. phil in the same year. H.C. been.

He organized the local seminar under the new conception of a Christian humanism and created as an inspector so that an independent school teacher state of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1837 he became a member of the Society of Sciences in Göttingen and in 1836 a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. During the Revolution of 1848, he gave his membership recognition badge of the Danish Academy of Sciences, the Danebrogorden, back, and thus demonstrated the Danish Government 's pro-German attitude, what you punished him with the 1852 ouster. That's why he followed in the winter semester 1852 the call of the University of Leipzig and taught there until his death on 22 July 1861.

Valuable for the linguistic understanding were his plan beautifully designed creations in a modified form, under different questions and new, from the Homer analysis arguments, which are reflected in modern research.

Works (selection)

  • Platonic dialogue ion. 1822
  • Quaestiones Home Ricae. 1824
  • Declarant Notes on Homer's Odyssey. 3 volumes, 1826-1840
  • De historia de Homeri maximeque scriptorum carminum Aetate meletemata 1830 - 1837
  • The heroic tale of the Greeks by their natural advantage. 1841
  • The word poetry of the Greeks represented critical. 3 volumes, 1852
  • Viewing the history of epic poetry of the Greeks. 1862
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