Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel
Wilhelm Siegmund of Teuffel (* September 27, 1820 in Ludwigsburg, † March 8, 1878 in Tübingen ) was a German classical scholar.
Life
Wilhelm Si ( e) gmund Teuffel was born in 1820 in Ludwigsburg, Germany, the son of the physician Andreas devil. Unlike his father, he wrote in his youth his name with two f Teuffels mother died in 1821, his father in 1829., The then nine -year-old boy was referred by his stepmother in the Royal Orphanage in Stuttgart. In the same year he succeeded in recording in the III. Class of the Royal Grammar School, where Teuffel each year a school prize carried off by his wit and his diligence. After graduating in 1834, he opted for a study of Protestant theology and moved into the seminar at Urach monastery. After four years, he was inducted into the pen for the higher theology, which was connected to the Tübingen University. The then studied theology in Urach demanded by the students extensive study of philosophy, history, mathematics and modern foreign languages.
Although, not impressed by his teachers of classical philology, the Tübingen professors Ernst Christian Walz and Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich panel to Teuffel intensely occupied with Greek and Latin literature. From his research on Horace went 1840 Prize Essay forth, from which in the writings characteristic of Horace, a contribution to the history of literature (Leipzig 1842), Horace, a litterar - historical overview (Tübingen 1843) and Prolegomena to Horace Chronology (Journal for Classical Studies, 1842). Because of these writings became Teuffel 1843, the doctorate of the Faculty of Arts with honors. He had passed in the fall of 1842 his theological examination.
The first few years after graduation Teuffel spent as vicar in a related country parson near Stuttgart, but his penchant for classical studies took him from a spiritual career more and more from. In the summer of 1844 him a travel grant allowed a six-month educational trip to northern Germany, which took him to stations in Heidelberg, Cologne, Bonn, Giessen, Marburg, Göttingen, Eisenach, Gotha, Weimar, Jena, Schulpforta, Halle, Leipzig, Dresden to Berlin, where he remained for four months. Habilitation services in Halle and Jena, he had knocked out. Instead, he reached after his return in late fall 1844 in Tübingen his habilitation with the De Juliano imperatore Christianismi contemptore et Osore ( Emperor Julian, despisers and haters of Christianity '). He was appointed lecturer and began in the summer semester of 1845 teaching at the University of Tübingen. In the summer of the same year he took with Ernst Christian Walz publishing the real encyclopedia of classical Alterthumswissenschaften of the late August Friedrich Pauly.
As in 1847 after a vaginal Tafels Chair of Classical Philology in Tübingen became vacant, to Teuffel applied for the position. When the university administration, however, opted for the older Albert Schwegler, Teuffel joined disappointed as an assistant teacher at the Royal Grammar School in Stuttgart. Here he worked for two years. He then went back to Tübingen as a lecturer and was after a few weeks, on 19 July 1849 appointed extraordinary professor.
After 1857 first Schwegler, then roll had died, Teuffel was appointed in September 1857 as a full professor and care with the care of the archaeological department. Next to him, the high school teacher Karl Hirzel was appointed a full professor and appointed the first chairman of the seminar. After Hirzel 1864 as headmaster of the Royal Grammar School in Stuttgart Replaced, Teuffel rose to the First Seminar Chairman.
On March 8, 1878 Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel died at the age of 57 years.
Services
Teuffels research and publication activity has produced many paintings that were the ancient Egyptians in the 19th century of groundbreaking importance. His earliest meaningful work was the publication of the Encyclopedia of Real - classical Alterthumswissenschaften who was depressed after the death of the editor August Friedrich Pauly on May 2, 1845. Teuffel she got together with his older colleague Ernst Christian Walz, until this 1847 for health reasons, his work had to stop. From then on Teuffel brought the company alone to end. The last part of volume was published in 1852. His attempt at a revision (1862-1866) remained unfinished after the publication of the first volume.
Another important work is his History of Roman literature, the first complete presentation of the Latin literature of antiquity in German language. To Teuffels lifetime published three editions. His colleague Ludwig Schwabe brought in 1882 the fourth edition, which still appeared in a band. The fifth edition (1890), also by Schwabe, appeared in two volumes. Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch 1910-1913 published the sixth and so far the last edition of the work, which identifies a circumference of four volumes.
Ennoblement
Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel received in 1875 the Knight's Cross, First Class of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, which was connected with the personal titles of nobility.
Works
- History of Roman literature
- Prolegomena to the chronology of Horace history ( in Journal of the Classical Studies, 1842)
- Characteristic of Horace. Leipzig 1842
- Horace, a litterar - historical overview. Tübingen, 1843
- Studies and characteristics. 1889 ( contain valuable contributions to the history of Greek and Roman literature)