Moritz Haupt

Rudolph Friedrich Moritz Haupt ( born July 27, 1808 in Zittau, † February 5, 1874 in Berlin) was a German classical scholar and specialist in German.

Life

Main grew up in Zittau, where his father, Ernst Friedrich ( † 1843) to 1830 was mayor and as editor of the Journal of Zittauischen town clerk John of Guben (Görlitz 1837) as well as a translator of Goethe's poems and German hymns into Latin ( Carmina Goethii " Leipzig, 1841 ), and Hymni sacri, Leipzig 1842) made ​​his name. his father was also his teacher for the first philological steps.

Moritz Haupt studied from 1826 to 1830 in the University of Leipzig Classical Philology at Gottfried Hermann, 1831 PhD, then the closed in Berlin friendship lived until 1837 with his sick father in Zittau, interrupted by trips to Vienna and Berlin in 1834. With Karl Lachmann was decisive for its further development. From 1830 to 1837, he expanded his knowledge of Greek, Latin, German, Bohemian, Old French and Provençal. In 1837 he qualified as a professor in Leipzig with a thesis on Catullus and became private in 1841 associate, in 1843 a full professor of the newly founded for him the chair of German language and literature.

In 1842 he married Louise Hermann, the daughter of his former teacher and colleague. After the March Revolution of 1849 he was put on trial for his part in the uprising with Theodor Mommsen and Otto Jahn. Although he was acquitted of charges of sedition, but not from any trespasses as Mommsen and Jahn, but in 1851 removed from office by the Senate of the University of Leipzig, his duties and was now living as a private scholar in Leipzig until he Karl Lachmann's Chair of Roman literature after 1853 Berlin was appointed to the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität. Since 1861 also permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences, he died in Berlin on February 5, 1874 of a heart attack.

Main was one of the most important founding fathers of German philology. For his numerous Middle High German editions, he took over the text- critical method of Lachmann. The oldest existing Germanistic journal, the Journal for German antiquity, has been founded in 1841 by him. It was preceded by Hoffmann von Fallersleben the collection leaves Old German (Leipzig 1836-40, 2 volumes).

Writings

In classical antiquity refer to:

  • Quaestiones Catullianae (Leipzig 1837)
  • Observationes criticae (Leipzig 1841)
  • De carminibus bucolicis Calpurnii et Nemesiani (Berlin 1854)

And the expenditure:

  • The Halieutica Ovid
  • The Cynegetica of Gratius and Nemesianus (Leipzig 1838)
  • The Epicedion Drusi (Leipzig 1850)
  • Of Horace (Leipzig 1851; 4th edition of Vahlen, 1882)
  • Of Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius (Leipzig 1853; 5th edition of Vahlen, 1885)
  • The Metamorphoses of Ovid ( Vol.1, Berlin 1853; 7th edition of HI Müller, 1885 Vol 2 by Korn, 1876);

In 1848 he founded Sauppe Weidmannsche collection of Greek and Roman writers with German notes, further

  • The Germania of Tacitus (Berlin 1855) and Virgil (Leipzig 1858, 2nd edition 1874).

In its smaller fonts

  • Opuscula, collected by U. v. Wilamowitz- Moellendorff (Leipzig 1875-77, 3 vols, reprint Hildesheim 1967)

Main has mostly contributed compelling, always remarkable conjectures for almost the entire Greek and Latin literature. He also spent G. Hermann, his father in law, estate:

  • Bion and Moschus (Leipzig, 1849), as well as the
  • Aeschylus (Leipzig 1852, 2 vols, 2nd edition 1859)

Out.

For his contributions to the etymology of his attempt to explain the origin of the word spill should be mentioned, see there.

For the literature of the German Middle Ages, he delivered editions:

  • Of Erec by Hartmann von Aue (Leipzig 1839, 2nd edition 1871)
  • Gerhard the Good of Rudolf von Ems ( Leipzig 1840)
  • The songs and booklets and the poor Heinrich of Hartmann von Aue (Leipzig 1842)
  • Of Engelhard of Konrad von Würzburg (Leipzig 1844)
  • The Winsbeke (Leipzig 1845)
  • The songs of Godfrey of Neifen (Leipzig 1851)
  • The songs Neidharts (Leipzig 1858),
  • Of Moritz von Craon (Berlin, 1871).

As editor or co-editor he got:

  • Lachmann's edition of the oldest Middle High German poet (Des minnesong Spring, Leipzig 1857, 38th edition of Tervooren, 1988)
  • The 3rd and 4th edition of Lachmann's edition of the Nibelungs (Berlin 1852 and 1867) and
  • The poems of Walther von der Vogelweide (Berlin 1853 and 1864).

From his studies of the Romance languages ​​bear witness to the published from his estate of Tobler:

  • French folk songs ( Leipzig 1877).
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