Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier

Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier (also: Eduard Meier, born January 1, 1796 in Great Glogau, † December 5, 1855 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a German classical scholar.

Life

The son of a Jewish merchant should take his father's profession originally. He had initially attended the public school of his native town and get another education at the Berlin High School to the gray monastery. On April 8, 1813, he entered the University of Breslau, moved the following year to the University of Berlin, where August Boeckh was his leading teachers. In 1816 he left the university to devote himself private studies. During this time he converted to Christianity and received his doctorate in 1818 for a Doctor of Philosophy.

An academic career pursuing to Meier habilitated in 1819 at Halle University as a lecturer, in 1820 associate professor of history and classical philology at the University of Greifswald and, having worked with Georg Friedrich Schömann ( 1793-1879 ) an academic invitation of the Berlin Academy of Sciences with the Scriptures " the Attic process " had won in 1824, he was appointed the honorary doctor of Law in Greifswald. In the same year he was offered a full professorship in Halle, which he took over Easter 1825.

He became director of the philological seminary, treated in his lectures in addition to the Attic orators more real subjects of history, participated as an author on the general encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences and in 1828 co-editor of the local newspaper general literature. In 1832 he was also entrusted with the professorship of rhetoric, which he, however, gave in 1845 at a time of political excitement also contact him for the next three years. In addition, Meier had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Halle University and was for two terms 1848/50 Vice-Rector of the Alma Mater. The old liberal Maier, who was not politically without influence, in 1854 member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. He died the following year of a lung ailment.

From his marriage with Caroline Julie Wilhelmine (1800-1864), the daughter of the Berlin manufactory Director Johann Georg Roesch and his wife Marie Elisabeth Amalie Young, the son of Eduard Meier (1834-1899) has become known as metallurgical expert.

Works (selection)

• Theses, ad ius civile et litterarum antiquarum disciplinam spectantes. 1824 ( with Edward A way )
• Praefatiuncula de artibus liberalibus et illiberalibus apud Romanos. 1829
• Praefatio de perfidia Graecorum. 1830
• The doctrine of the release with the Greeks and the constitutional history of the Federal amphictyonic, Delphi's and Erythrae 's.
• Demosthenis Oratio in Midiam. Graech recensuit, scholia vet- anotationem criticam et commentarios. Hall 1831
• De gentilitate Attica. Hall 1835
• Commentatio Theophrasteo. typis Hendelianis, 1835
• Ostracism. 1836
• De Andocidis oratione contra Alcibiadem. Hall 1836
• Pederasty. 1837
• De Crantoris Solensis libro deperdito. Hall 1840
• Pergamenisches Empire. Leipzig, 1842
• De proxenia sive de publico Graecorum hospito. Hall 1843
• Fragmentum lexici rhetorici. Hall 1844
• Commentatio de Plauti Trinummo. 1845
• The private arbitrators and the public diets Athens. Hall 1846
• De vita et de Lycurgi Lycurgi orationum reliquiis. Hall 1847
• De lege Soloni. 1849
• Mauritii Hermanni Eduardi Meieri Commentatio Epigraphica. 1852