Karl Lehrs

Karl Ludwig Lehr ( born January 14, 1802 in Königsberg ( Prussia), † June 9, 1878 ) was a German classical scholar.

Life

Lehr was the son of Jewish manufactured goods dealer Pinkus merchant Levi ( since 1812: Lehr ), but converted to Christianity in 1822. He received his doctorate in 1823 and his habilitation in 1831st After he had worked for several years under poor working conditions in the teaching profession, he had from 1845 until his death a full professor of Greek philology in Königsberg.

Karl Lehr was a man of decided views. He stressed that one must see Homer as an original genius, and not as exchange scholars. Therefore, he turned against the analytic research Homer in the successor Friedrich August Wolf, and in particular against the " individual songs theory " Karl Lachmann; Instead, he wanted to hold on to the single authorship of Homer for the entire Iliad. Comparative mythology and symbolic interpretation of myths Lehrs could not get anything, but saw the Greek gods formed from the contemplation of nature, or from the experience of an ethical idea out.

His 50 -year-old doctor anniversary in 1873 was Lehrs humorous " Ten Commandments " for classical philologists print, the most important are ( 1st-3rd commandment. ): One should ( erg: the thoughts of other authors ) not parroting or steal, nor the manuscript tradition blindly trust. Lehr, who was scientifically productive to the last, died in 1878 after a short illness at a bladder disease. His students included, inter alia, Arthur Ludwich and August Lentz.

He was Buried in the cemetery of scholars (Königsberg ).

Works

  • De Aristarchi Studiis Homericis ( 1833), which presented the exegesis and textual criticism of Homer on a new basis ( according to the method of Aristarchus to explain the text by itself );
  • Quaestiones Epicae (1837 );
  • De Asclepiade Myrleano (1845 );
  • Herodiani Scripta tria emendatiora (1848 ) in which he makes the fragmentary traditional grammarian Herodian tangible than personality;
  • Popular Articles from ancient times (1856, 2, greatly expanded edition 1875), his most famous work, in which he attempts to awaken enthusiasm for the beauty of the ancient world;
  • Horatius Flaccus (1869 ), in which work he rejected many odes of Horace, for aesthetic reasons as spurious;
  • The Pindarscholien (1873 );
  • Kleine Schriften ( posthumous 1902, reprint 1979).
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