Jerome Wolf ( him. Hieronymus Wolf ) ( August 13, 1516 , Ettingen - October 8, 1580 , Augsburg ) - German humanist , philologist , founder of Byzantinistics .
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Biography
Attended school in Nördlingen . Even in his school years showed his penchant for the humanities. The teachers were attentive to the talent of his student. Especially in Nuremberg, he found benevolent mentors. In 1536, Jerome's father died, and he was forced to return to Etingen in order to care for his four-year-old brother, who would later become a famous doctor in Nuremberg.
In 1537 - 1539 he studied in Wittenberg , where Melanchthon was among his teachers.
In 1543 - 1545 he was rector in Mühlhausen , after which he returned for a while as a teacher to Nuremberg, from where he went to Tübingen and then to Strasbourg .
In 1548, in Basel, he met his friend and in the future the publisher of his works, Johann Oporin .
In 1550 - 1551 he taught in Paris .
He refused to accept the vacancy of a professor of history in Basel and in 1551 in Augsburg he became secretary and librarian of Johann Jacob Fugger , who, in his desire to collect as many classical works as possible, found a zealous assistant in Wolf.
In 1557 , having lost his patron, he took the position of rector of the St. Anna, at the same time being a city librarian: under his leadership, the Library of Augsburg received its own building, the first separate library building in Germany.
Scientific Research
Already in his early years, Wolf began to study the Greek written heritage in order to translate it into Latin . In addition, he composed his transcriptions of some of the writings of a number of ancient authors with numerous comments, comments and suggestions. In 1558 - 1559, Oporin published the translations of the writings of Isocrates and Demosthenes commented on by Wolf.
His merit is the preservation of many written monuments of Byzantium. He now belongs to the generally accepted term "Byzantium" and "Byzantine Empire." He called the Roman Empire Byzantium purposefully - to falsely show that Byzantium is not the Roman Empire, but the only Roman Empire and heir of Caesar and Augustus of Ancient Rome is the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation . His works laid the foundation of Byzantinism.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 100706460 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Literature
- Mezger G. Wolf, Hieronymus. - In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Band 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig, 1898, S. 755–757.
- Der vater der deutschen Byzantinistik. Das Leben des Hieronymus Wolf von ihm selbst erzählt. Dt. von Hans-Georg Beck , Munich, 1984.