Hermann Bonitz
Hermann Bonitz ( born July 29, 1814 Langensalza ( Thuringia), † July 25, 1888 in Berlin) was a philologist, philosopher and reformer school in Vienna and Berlin.
Life
Born the sixth child of the pastor and superintendent Karl Friedrich Bonitz and his mother, Mary Sophia Bonitz born Schmalkalden, he studied after visiting the country in Schulpforta, a former Cistercian monastery near Naumburg, at the University of Leipzig, philosophy, philology, theology and mathematics, and to the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Berlin philology. In 1835 he married Bertha Maria bread from Gera, she was the daughter of the mayor of Gera, trade Lord and manor owner Marcus Friedrich bread. After receiving his doctorate in 1836 in Leipzig, he was until 1849 in the teaching profession, first as a teacher in Dresden, from 1838 as the senior teacher in Berlin, and from 1842 as a secondary school teacher in Stettin active.
In 1849 he was appointed Franz Serafin Exner brokered as Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Vienna. Together with Exner, he designed the test under the Minister of Education, Count Leo Thun- Hohenstein reform for 8-class secondary school with the " Matura ". 1867 moved Hermann Bonitz back as part of his appointment as director of the high school to the Grey Monastery and director of the Royal educational seminar for schools learned to Berlin. From 1875 he was Privy Councillor and lecturer Council on Educational Affairs.
1888 Hermann Bonitz moved as Privy Councillor upper back from work and died on 25 July 1888 in Berlin shortly before his 74th birthday. By the sculptor Carl Kundmann a group of monuments has been designed at the Vienna University of arcaded courtyard of the main building, dedicated to the reformers of the Austrian education, Count Leo Thun- Hohenstein, Franz Exner and Hermann Bonitz,
In 1954 in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ) was named the Bonitzgasse after him.
Work
Bonitz has a crucial importance for the reform of the school system in Vienna and Berlin Franz Serafin Exner along with. His extensive works on Plato and Aristotle, his index Aristotelicus, (Berlin, 1870), the Platonic studies (1875, 1886) and his translation of Aristotle 's Metaphysics (Berlin 1890) were standard works of the humanities.
Writings
- Disputationes Platonicae Duae (1837 ); Platonic Studies ( 3.Ausg editor, 1886)
- Observationes Criticae in Aristotelis Libros Metaphysicos (1842 )
- Observationes Criticae in Aristotelis quae feruntur Magna Moralia et Ethica Eudemia (1844 )
- Alexandri Aphrodisiensis Commentarius in Libros Aristotelis Metaphysicos (1847 )
- Aristotelis Metaphysica (1848-1849)
- About the Categories A. (1853 )
- Aristotelian Studies (1862-1867)
- Index Aristotelicus (1870 )
- On the origin of the Homeric poems ( 5.Ausg. Ed. 188 )
- Contributions to the explanation of Thucydides (1854 ), Sophocles ( 1856-1857 )