Georg Friedrich Creuzer

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Friedrich Creuzer
philologist

Georg Friedrich Creuzer (German:

archaeologist
.

Life

Medaille Georg Friedrich Creuzer 1844

He was born at

University of Leiden
, where his health was affected by the Dutch climate.

Creuzer was one of the principal founders of the Philological Seminary established at Heidelberg in 1807. The

University of Heidelberg. This medal was made by the engraver Ludwig Kachel.[2]

Works

Creuzer's first and most famous work was his Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, besonders der Griechen

Pelasgians, and reflected the symbolism of an ancient revelation;[4] as a reconciliation with Judeo-Christian religion, it was, Walter Burkert has said, "the last large-scale and thoroughly unavailing endeavor of this kind."[5]

This work ran counter to the ideology of romantic nationalism, which held literature and culture to be intimately connected with a Volk, epitomized by Karl Otfried Müller's concept of a Greek Stammeskultur, a Greek "tribal culture".[6] For this and the next generations, "origins and organic development rather than reciprocal cultural influences became the key to understanding."[7]

Creuzer's work was vigorously attacked by

Hegel in his Philosophy of Right.[10]

Creuzer's other works include:

  • an edition of Plotinus
  • a partial edition of Cicero, in preparing which he was assisted by Moser
  • Epochen der griechischen Literaturgeschichte (1802)
  • Die historische Kunst der Griechen (1803)
  • Abriss der römischen Antiquitaten (1824)
  • Zur Geschichte altrömischer Cultur am Oberrhein und Neckar (1833)
  • Zur Gemmenkunde (1834)
  • Das Mithreum von Neuenheim (1838)
  • Zur Galerie der alten Dramatiker (1839)
  • Zur Geschichte der classischen Philologie (1854).[11]

See the autobiographical Aus dem Leben eines alten Professors (Leipzig and Darmstadt, 1848), to which was added in the year of his death Paralipomena der Lebenskunde eines alten Professors (Frankfurt, 1858); also Starck, Friederich Kreuzer, sein Bildungsgang und seine bleibende Bedeutung (Heidelberg, 1875).[11]

Notes

  1. ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 431.
  2. ^ 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), 80f.
  3. ^ "Symbolism and mythology of the ancient peoples, particularly the Greeks"
  4. ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 431–432.
  5. ^ Burkert, Introduction to Greek Religion 1983:
  6. Kadmos
    , in Orchomenos und die Minyer (1820, 1844), as Burkert noted.
  7. ^ Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Period 1992, p. 2.
  8. ^ "On the character and treatment of mythology"
  9. ^ Edmonds, pp. 54–5.
  10. ^ Section 203; the history of this public dialogue is retraced in E. Howald, Der Kampf um Creuzers Symbolik1926.
  11. ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 432.

References

  • Edmonds, Radcliffe G. (2013), Redefining Ancient Orphism: A Study in Greek Religion, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
    ISBN 978-1-107-03821-9
    .
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Creuzer, Georg Friedrich". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 431–432.
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