Ludwig von Urlichs
Ludwig ( knighted in 1885, born November 9, 1813 in Osnabrück, † November 3, 1889 in Würzburg; Complete name: Karl Ludwig Urlichs ) of Urlichs was a German classical archaeologist and philologist.
Life
Ludwig Urlichs attended high school in Aachen and moved in 1830, at the age of 16 years, the University of Bonn to study Classical Studies. His teacher Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker took him to the archeology alike approach as to philology. Although Urlichs ' dissertation Achaei Eretriensis quae super sunt ( fragments of the tragedian Achaeus from Eretria, 1834) treated a philological subject, but in the following years he turned to archeology. Finally, in his travels through Italy and Sicily, he came to Rome, where, hired him the Prussian envoy to the Vatican and first chairman of the fledgling Instituto di correspondenza archeologica, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen as tutor of his sons. In Rome Urlichs also came with Johann Martin von Wagner and Eduard Gerhard in contact, which he description of the city of Rome (1829-1842) helped with the writing of his multi-volume work. Years later published Urlichs with the Codex Urbis Romae topographicus (1871 ) is a fruit of his Roman period.
After six years in Italy Urlichs 1840 returned to Bonn, where he habilitated in 1841 and co-founder and first chronicler of the Association of antiquity friends in the Rhineland was. As an experienced archaeologist, he was hired in 1843 by August Wilhelm Schlegel as an honorary lecturer at the Academic Art Museum; later he was elevated to co-director. His livelihood earned Urlichs then as a lecturer at the University of Bonn, where in 1844 was appointed associate professor. In addition to his former teacher Welcker Urlichs cultivated a friendly relationship with the few years her senior Latinist Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, whose text-critical courses, he added to archaeological.
Finally left Urlichs Bonn, as he had in 1847 received a professorship at the University of Greifswald as professor of Classical Philology. This professorship by his predecessor Otto Jahn won two years earlier. Urlichs ' Greifswald time, however, was determined by political activity that distracted him from his teaching: From 1848 to 1852, Urlichs member of the Prussian House of Deputies and the Erfurt Union Parliament, where he was second secretary after Otto von Bismarck. In the Greifswald years Urlichs also met his wife Louise Quistorp, with whom he had three daughters and four sons, including the archaeologist Heinrich Ludwig Urlichs ( 1864-1935 ).
Although it was open to a future career as a politician, to Urlichs decided in 1855 in favor to follow the call of the University of Würzburg to the Chair of Classical Philology and aesthetics. Here he devoted himself to his life of teaching, research and museum work. Additional teaching experience he gained as a " Ministerialkommisär " of the Bavarian grammar schools. At the formation of the University of multiples Classical Archaeology Urlichs had a keen interest and obtained that it was included in the Bavarian Examination Regulations for the teaching at secondary schools. This rule applies even today. In addition Urlichs led the scientific work of art and antiques collection of the University, which Urlichs enriched by the legacy of the 1858 who died in Rome, Johann Martin von Wagner, after the collection in " Wagnerian Art Institute " and later (after Urlichs ' death) in Martin-von -Wagner- Museum was renamed. The acquisition of the collection Feoli (1872 ), which consists of 480 Greek and Etruscan vases, the Würzburg University Museum received the third largest German Vase Collection to Berlin and Munich. Special attention was devoted Urlichs but the ancient statuary. His monograph Scopas: Life and Works (1863 ) has been cited to the late 20th century much, his leader through the Glyptothek Ludwig I (1867) was highly praised. From his only trip to Greece, the Urlichs 1881 undertook, he reported besides topography and architecture especially on the plastic plants. For his services Urlichs 1857 appointed councilor in 1866 elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1880 awarded the Order of the Crown and included in the Bavarian nobility staff in 1885.
His philological origin and the long-standing friendship with Schiller daughter Emilie von Gleichen- Russwurm brought Urlichs to devote themselves to the life and work of Goethe's time. He issued the letter of Goethe to Johanna Fahlmer (1857 ) and Friedrich Schiller ( 1877) and wrote a three-volume work entitled Charlotte von Schiller and her friends ( 1860-1865 ). Even in the history of science of his own subject to Urlichs did order by written numerous articles for the General German Biography.