Immanuel Gottlieb Huschke

Immanuel Gottlieb Huschke ( born January 8, 1761 Greußen, † February 18, 1828 ) was a German philologist Classic, who worked as a professor at the University of Rostock ( 1806-1828 ).

Life

Huschke, the son of a wealthy merchant from Greußen in Thuringia, visited the country Pforta and studied at the University of Jena theology. Together with his fellow students Friedrich Jacobs, he turned to philology. After the exam Huschke worked as a tutor at a Livonian landlords, from 1789 onwards with a German merchant in the Netherlands. There he deepened his philological studies and wrong with the philologist Jeronimo de Bosch (1740-1811) and Laurens van Santen ( 1746-1798 ).

The occupation of the Netherlands by the French revolutionary army and the proclamation of the Batavian Republic ( 1795) opened up for Huschke an academic position: The Leiden professor Jean Luzac ( 1746-1807 ), a critic of the French Revolution, was released from his chair. Huschke was appointed as his successor, took the call and gave also to his private tutor on. But because Luzac complained against his dismissal in court, Huschke could not be employed, and spent several years waiting time.

For financial reasons, he left the Netherlands in 1800 and moved to Munden, where he lived in the house of his brother Carl Gottfried Huschke. In 1802 he qualified as a professor at the nearby University of Göttingen and lectured on Greek and Latin literature. Since he moved as a lecturer no salary, he had to rely on college funds.

It was not until 1806, at the age of 45 years, Huschke received a paid position: he was appointed professor of Greek literature at the University of Rostock. He answered the call immediately and worked until his death in Rostock. A renewed call of the University of Leiden in 1807 (after Luzacs death) he refused. Huschke 1813 was appointed professor of eloquence and elected Rector of the University, appointed in 1816 to head the Rostock University Library. In the years 1816 and 1823, he had to take for health reasons long vacation from his teaching. He died on 18 February 1828 at the age of 67 years, after a long illness.

Services

Huschke was operated by collecting activity and large-scale text output according to its scientific embossing to a generation of Dutch philologists philology. His principal work is an output of Anthologia Palatina ( Jena 1800), which was well received in the professional world. Then Huschke published essays and commentary on Archilochus, the Orphic Argonautica, and to the Roman poets Tibullus and Propertius. Because of his poor health and his difficult job situation, he published relatively few writings. His work has meant progress for your time, but were overtaken soon after his death.