Karl Zell

Karl Zell ( born April 8, 1793 in Mannheim, † January 21, 1873 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German philologist Classic.

Life

Karl cell visited the Lyceum in Mannheim, whose headmaster Friedrich August Nüßlin was a pupil of Friedrich August Wolf. Nüßlin advised his students to study at the University of Heidelberg Classical Philology. This cell was a student of Friedrich August Boeckh and Creuzer that shaped him; more semester spent cell to the universities of Breslau and Göttingen. After receiving his doctorate cell the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle was in two volumes out (Heidelberg 1821). In the same year he was appointed to the chair of philology at the University of Freiburg, which had been vacant for seven years since the death of Johann Georg Jacobi. In Freiburg designed cell the philological studies to. In 1830 he founded, following the example of several other universities, the Philological seminar whose purpose was mainly teacher training. For Anton Baumstark, who was hired in 1830 as an assistant at the seminar, put Zell in 1836 the introduction of a second Chair of Classical Philology by. In addition to the seminar leader cell has held various positions at the University he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, member of the business delegation, Vice-Rector and Chief Librarian.

From 1831 to 1835 was cell representative of the University in the Badische First Chamber, where he championed from the beginning of the transformation of higher education in Baden. He was successful: in 1836, a new curriculum for secondary schools was adopted and a higher authority ( senior teacher ) " for monitoring and promoting scholarly teaching " set up. This senior teacher entered the cell at a Ministerial while he left the university and gave up his chair. Only after ten years cell returned to university teaching, when he was appointed in 1846 as Professor of Archaeology at Heidelberg. In addition to the Magisterium cell remained a foreign member of the Upper Council study and also belonged from 1848 to 1853 the Badische Second Chamber on. In 1855 he retired and moved to Freiburg, where he died in 1873.

In his scientific publications, cell employed particularly with the philosophy of Aristotle, whose writings he commented and published. He also gave the Latin authors Horace, Phaedrus and Eutropius out and wrote essays on modern European literature ( Calderon, Shakespeare) and Baden country's history.