Benno Diederich
Benno Diederich (13 March 1870 – 15 November 1947) was a German educator, philologist, author and biographer.
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Biography
Diederich was born in Berlin, the son of a railway secretary. He attended the Humboldt Gymnasium in Berlin and, from 1885, the Gymnasium Christianeum in Altona, from where he graduated in 1889. He then studied ancient languages and Germanistics and literature at the Georg August University in Göttingen.[1] There he joined the fraternity and later Burschenschaft Holzminda at the beginning of 1890.[2] In 1891, he moved to Kiel University, where he passed his exams and obtained his doctorate in 1894. He completed his seminar year in Altona and his probationary year at Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium in Wandsbek.
In 1897 he was appointed as an assistant science teacher at the secondary school in Blankenese, where he became head teacher in 1899. In the same year, he went to the Royal Gymnasium in Lübeck; from there he went on to the Johanneum Gymnasium in Hamburg, where he taught Hans Erich Nossack, among others. He also founded and ran a literary salon.[3]
He died in Hamburg in 1947, almost completely blind.[4] He had two daughters, one of whom — Ursula Schuh — became famous as a painter and stage designer.
He wrote numerous works, including biographies of Émile Zola and Alphonse Daudet.
Works
- Quomodo dei in Homeri Odyssea cum hominibus commercium faciant (1894; dissertation)
- Emile Zola (1898)
- Königin Elisabeth von Rumänien (Carmen Sylva). Ein Lebensbild (1898)
- Zola und die Rougon-Macquart (1899)
- Das Milieu bei Émile Zola (1899)
- Alphonse Daudet. Sein Leben und seine Werke (1900; 1901)
- Großherzog Peter von Oldenburg. Erinnerungsblätter (1900)
- Von Gespenstergeschichten, ihrer Technik und ihrer Literatur (1903)
- Die Hamburger. Charakterbilder aus der Literatur unserer Zeit (1909)
- Führung zur Kunst (1909)
- Hamburger Poeten (1910)
- Friederike (1911)
- Prinzessin Ursula. Ein Weihnachtsmärchen in fünf Akten (1912)
- Die schönsten Geschichten des griechischen Altertums (1914)
- Ein Weltkrieg im Altertum (1914)
- Von den alten Weltreichen (1914)
- Preußens Aufgang (1915)
- Bolschewismus und Expressionismus (1921)
- Der Untergang der Carnatic. Spukgeschichten (1927; editor)
- Der Sexualismus, die geschlechtliche Entartung der Gegenwart (1929)
- "Johann Melchior Goeze, der Gegner Lessings". In: Der Staatsdiener, No. 6 (1936), pp. 110–11.
- "Agrippa von Nettesheim. Ein zweiter Faust; zu seinem Erinnerungstage am 14. September". In: Börsen-Zeitung (13 September 1936)
- "Der Wandsbecker Bote. Zu Matthias Claudius' 200. Geburtstag". In: Hamburgische Kirchenzeitung 16 (1940)
- Die Geschichten des Herodot (1987)
Notes
- ↑ Ebel, Wilhelm (1974). Die Matrikel der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837–1900. Hildesheim.
- ↑ Nolte, Willy (1934). Burschenschafter-Stammrolle. Verzeichnis der Mitglieder der Deutschen Burschenschaft nach dem Stande vom Sommer-Semester 1934. Berlin, p. 84.
- ↑ Quadflieg, Roswitha (2006). Beckett was here. Hamburg im Tagebuch Samuel Becketts von 1936. Hamburg, p. 34.
- ↑ Nossack, Hans Erich (1971). Pseudobiographische Glossen. Frankfurt am Main, p. 23.
References
- Dvorak, Helge (2018). Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft. Band II: Künstler. Heidelberg: Winter, pp. 134–35.
- Kössler, Franz 92007). Personenlexikon von Lehrern des 19. Jahrhunderts. Berufsbiographien aus Schul-Jahresberichten und Schulprogrammen 1825–1918, Band Daase – Dzialash. Preprint Giessen, p. 81.
