Martin Hertz

Martin Julius Hertz ( born April 7, 1818 in Hamburg, † 22 September 1895 in Breslau) was a German philologist Classic. As a high school teacher in Greifswald and Breslau, he created basic editions of the grammarian Priscian (Leipzig 1855-1859 ) and Aulus Gellius Stained writer ( editio minor 1853 editio maior 1883-1885 ).

Life

Martin Hertz was born the son of a pharmacist Johann Jakob Hertz. 1828 the family moved to Berlin, where Hertz in 1831 the high school attended to the Grey Abbey. His teachers there Johann Friedrich Bellermann, Edward Bonnell (1802-1877), William Pape and Karl Friedrich Siegmund Alschefski (1805-1852) aroused in him the enthusiasm of the classical languages ​​. So Hertz studied from 1835 Classical Studies at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In 1836 he became a member of the Corps Rhenaniastraße Bonn. During his studies, he had to extend due to an eye disease for seven years, he attended lectures at Barthold Georg Niebuhr, and Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker at Bonn, in Berlin with Philip Augustus Boeckh, Johann Gustav Droysen, Theodor Panofka, Gustav Adolf Scholl and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg. Especially sustainable but influenced him the textual critic Karl Lachmann. Dedicated to him Hertz did his thesis ( on the Roman historian Cincius, 1842), thematically but rather emanated from Niebuhr.

After he had reached in Berlin in 1845 his habilitation to Hertz went on for several months study trip through southern Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy and Austria. Here collected material for critical editions of the writer Aulus Gellius stained, the scholia of Germanicus ( although he does not even edited ) and the grammarian Priscian. The Roman grammarians moved from there ( through the influence of his teacher, Lachmann ) in the center of his life-long work.

After his return to Berlin, Hertz worked there for several years as a lecturer. During the revolution of 1848/1849 he committed himself to the interests of the central building, a student corps joined and served as an elector for the National Assembly. After 1849 he withdrew completely from politics and devoted himself only nor his teaching and research work. According to Lachmann's death ( 1851) published a biography of his mentor and Hertz took over for a short time the Mitdirektion of the Philological Seminary next Böckh. 1853 Moriz principal was appointed as Lachmann's successor. In the same year Hertz founded with selected students a Latin society and published by himself as a preliminary issue of the prestigious Gellius.

In 1855 he was appointed the University of Greifswald on their Chair of Classical Philology. Here (1855-1859) was published in two volumes in his edition of Priscian, which was fundamental to the scientific study of this author. He asked done here too, his four-volume edition of Livy. But also in Greifswald Hertz remained only a few years: In the summer of 1862, he received a call the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau. Calls the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg he refused. For the academic year 1876/77 he was elected rector. After 30 years he put his professorship in 1893 for health reasons down.

In Breslau Hertz brought his in Berlin and Greifswald started scientific work to a conclusion. In addition to numerous smaller writings, of which Gellius to 1886 in an anthology ( Opuscula Gelliana ) appeared, he published the fourth volume of his Livy here edition, his two-volume editio maior of Gellius ( 1883-1885 ), a second editio minor of the same writer ( 1886), and an edition of the poet Horace (1892 ). Besides his own works Hertz also showed keen interest in large research companies. He repeatedly warned of the urgency of a comprehensive lexicographic project, which was finally realized in 1893 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. He also wrote in-depth reviews of the first RE- volumes.

553237
de