Friedrich August Wolf
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Friedrich August Wolf (German: .
Biography
Wolf was born in
In 1777, after two years of independent study, at the age of eighteen, Wolf went to the University of Göttingen.[1] Legend has it that he chose to enroll in the department of "philology", despite the fact that the university had none. His enrollment was nonetheless accepted as submitted.[citation needed] At the time Christian Gottlob Heyne was a member of the faculty. Heyne excluded Wolf from his lectures, and criticized Wolf's views on Homer. Wolf was undeterred and pursued his studies through the university's library.[2]
From 1779 to 1783, he taught at
It was in
During Wolf's time at Halle he published his
The Halle professorship ended after the French invasion of 1806. He relocated to Berlin, where he received assistance from Wilhelm von Humboldt. Later he once more took a professorship, but he no longer taught with his old success, and he wrote very little. His most finished work, the Darstellung der Alterthumswissenschaft, though published at Berlin (1807), belongs essentially to the Halle time.[3]
Taking medical advice, Wolf travelled to the south but died on the road to Marseille, and was buried there. In 1840 a medal was struck in his honor.[6]
See also
References
Citations
- ^ a b Monro 1911, p. 770.
- ^ Monro 1911, pp. 770–771.
- ^ a b c Monro 1911, p. 771.
- ISBN 978-0-7914-8267-4. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
- ISSN 1556-5068.
- ^ http://hdl.handle.net/10900/100742 S. Krmnicek und M. Gaidys, Gelehrtenbilder. Altertumswissenschaftler auf Medaillen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Begleitband zur online-Ausstellung im Digitalen Münzkabinett des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Tübingen, in: S. Krmnicek (Hrsg.), Von Krösus bis zu König Wilhelm. Neue Serie Bd. 3 (Tübingen 2020), 69-71.
- ^ Friedrich Schleiermacher, "Ueber den Begriff der Hermeneutik mit Bezug auf F. A. Wolfs Andeutungen und Asts Lehrbuch", lecture delivered on 13 August 1829; published in Friedrich Schleiermachers sämtliche Werke III/3, 1838 (Schleiermacher makes reference to Ast's Grundlinien der Grammatik, Hermeneutik und Kritik (1808) and Wolf's Vorlesungen über die Enzyklopädie der Altertumswissenschaft (1831)); Richard E. Palmer, Hermeneutics, Northwestern University Press, 1969, ch. 6.
Sources
- Markner, Reinhard; Veltri, Giuseppe, eds. (1999). Friedrich August Wolf (in German).
- public domain: Monro, David Binning (1911). "Wolf, Friedrich August". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 770–771. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Further reading
- Reinhard Markner, "Friedrich August Wolf. Eine Bibliographie."