You are bidding on onehandwritten, signed letter of the classical philologist Friedrich Haase (1808-1867).

Dated Wroclaw, 2. October 1840.

Friedrich Haase had been an associate professor of philology at the University of Breslau since Easter 1840. In 1837 he was imprisoned fraternity activities in prison.

With very interesting content; Complaints about his poor work situation ("For me, this world is a real forced labor house") and his difficult status as a bachelor.

Aimed at the private lecturer friend and later professor of philosophy in Berlin Karl Heinrich Althaus (1806-1886).

Scope:three of four pages written (20.8 x 12.8 cm); without envelope.

Excerpts:"Dear Althaus, your letter is quite gloomy. I know what it means to be in an inadequate position and feel lonely. However, do not lose heart; think about what you have and don't worry about what you lack. But in Berlin you always don't have little, and the only mistake is that you don't pay attention to it out of habit or spurn it out of a bad mood. [...] In any case, I feel strange and lonely here in a way that is not possible in Berlin. I do have an audience, but I certainly don't owe that to the professorship, but rather to the one-sidedness of my colleagues; On the contrary, the professorship imposes obligations and work on me that are completely out of proportion to my salary. [...] The worst thing about it is that my lectures take up all my time, so I can't write anything on the side. You can read whatever and how much you want; But I am forced to read what the others leave behind, and that is almost all of them; in the previous semester lat. Syntax, in the next Greek. antiques; then Roman literary history [...]. So there is no end in sight to the torture; For me the world is a real forced labor house, and you know it has been that way for a long time."

Then about his bachelorhood and other people's attempts to end it: "I'm engaged to a woman from Breslau, I'm dragged almost by force by well-meaning people to others, and then there are the good examples! I congratulated Grulitz on his wedding, Kayser in Liegnitz (my old friend and college in Charlottenburg) tells me that he will get married at Easter, and Fickert writes to me that he has become engaged - all in the course of a few days. Apart from you, none of my older friends are single anymore who are not engaged or married, which means they are all as good as lost to me and I am the only one left. If I had more leisure, I would take it to heart in the end and seriously think about getting lost too."

Then about a priest named Knoblauch, "who was always pursued by misfortune," and the Indologist Adolf Friedrich Stenzler (1807-1887): "a very pleasant person, but, it seems, without any convictions; since he has a wedding today, so I pretty much consider it to be a done deal."

At the end there is more detail about the Berner family in Berlin, the law student and later criminal law scholar Albert Friedrich Berner (1818-1907), who lives with his cousin Bertha Berner, who recommends Haase Althaus as a possible wife. "If that already seems decidedly impossible to you, I would rather advise you not to go at all, because it is now a dangerous time there, because it is beginning to be high time."

Signed"Your bunny."

Condition: Letter folded, paper slightly browned, with edge wear.bitPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Althaus 2023-3 folder Novooo autograph autograph

About Friedrich Haase (Source: wikipedia & ADB) as well as the recipient (source: own research):

Friedrich Haase (*4. January 1808 in Magdeburg; † 16. August 1867 in Breslau) was a German classical philologist and university professor.

Life: Haase, the son of a tailor, studied philology at the Friedrichs-Universität Halle, the University of Greifswald and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. He became a member of the Old Halle Fraternity (1827) and the Old Greifswalder Burschenschaft (1828). After briefly working at the Köllnisches Gymnasium, he was employed at the Cauersche Anstalt in Charlottenburg in 1831. An adjunct in Schulpforta since 1834, he was suspended from office at Easter 1835 for participating in fraternity activities, replaced in 1836 and held in prison until 1837.

He then made a scientific journey via Heidelberg and Strasbourg to Paris. The Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau appointed him as an extraordinary professor of philology in 1840 and as a full professor in 1846. In 1848 he was a member of the Prussian National Assembly. In 1858/59 he was rector of the university. In 1863 he was accepted as an external member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Haase died at the age of 59.

Fonts

De Republica Lacedaemoniorum (Berlin 1833), the Thucydides with Latin translation (Paris 1841)

Lucubrationum Thucydidiarum mantissa (Berlin 1841)

Vellejus Paterculus (Leipzig 1851, 2. ed. 1863)

L. Annaei Senecae Opera quae supersunt (1852–53, 3 vols.; 2. ed. 1872–1873)

Cornelii Taciti Opera, 2 volumes 1855

Haase added valuable comments to Karl Christian Reisig's lectures on Latin linguistics (Leipzig 1839). His own lectures on Latin linguistics appeared from his estate (1. Vol. von Eckstein, Leipzig 1874; 2. Vol. by H. Peter, 1880). He also wrote: Past and Future of Philology (Berlin 1835); The Athenian root constitution (1857) and a series of essays and reviews, particularly on the history of literature and the history of philology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Haase: Friedrich Gottlob Heinrich Christian H., distinguished philologist, was born on the 4th. Born January 1808 in Magdeburg as the son of a poor tailor. In 1820 he was taken to the cathedral high school there, and at Easter 1827 he moved to the University of Halle to study philology under Reisig; In Michaelmas 1828, after he had traveled to Italy, he went to Greifswald, where he particularly became attached to Schömann; From Michaelmas of the following year he completed his studies under the direction of Böckh and Lachmann in Berlin. Here he also passed the state examination in February 1831 and in the same year, after he had been employed for a short time as a Candidatus probandus at the Köllnisches Realgymnasium, he was appointed to the Cauer Teaching and Education Institute in Charlottenburg. Here he proved himself extremely well; This and the reputation of his outstanding scientific ability established by his edition of Xenophon's “De republica Lacedaemoniorum” (1833) secured him the position of adjunct in Schulpforta at Easter 1834. But the magic he exerted on both students and colleges was not to last long. Already in the summer of the same year, an investigation was initiated against him, as against his friends and colleagues Fickert and Grubitz, for participation in the fraternity - he was a member in Halle and Greifswald and was also the spokesman for the fraternity at the latter university - at Easter of the following year He was suspended from office and put on half salary, and after another torturous year he was deposed (it was left in doubt as to whether he would ever be declared capable of holding a school office again) and sentenced to six years in prison. In September 1836 he was taken to the fortress in Erfurt and, since it was occupied, to the inquisitoria there. After a year of imprisonment, which was not strict by the way, he was released. After a short visit to his parents, he went to Berlin, where he was particularly fond of Joh. Schulze's use received a scholarship for a scientific trip to Paris, the main purpose of which was to study the manuscripts of the war writers. After he left on the 10th After receiving his doctorate in Halle in May 1838, he traveled to Paris via Heidelberg and Strasbourg. He stayed here until the fall of 1839 and, after returning to Germany via Bern, was appointed associate professor at this university after Ritschl's departure from Breslau. This office he took office at Easter 1840; the inaugural pamphlet “Lucubrationes Thucididiae” was printed the following year (1841). Although he devoted himself wholeheartedly to this office and had great success as a teacher, his promotion did not happen as quickly as one would have expected - as is claimed, because he had several differences with Minister Eichhorn may. After he rejected the appointment as director of the Elisabeth-Gymnasium in Breslau in 1844, he was appointed full professor in 1846; In 1851, after he had been considered G. Hermann's successor, he received the professorship of eloquence and co-directorship of the philological seminar. In 1859 he was elected rector thanks to the trust of his colleagues. Already in 1867 on the 16th In August he was torn away from his family, from the university, from his fatherland, from science, after barely a fortnight's illness from typhoid fever. H. was the most loving son, the most self-sacrificing friend, the most unselfish supporter of all ideal aspirations, the most fearless defender of right and truth, one of the most loyal sons of the German fatherland, an excellent citizen, the most devoted teacher, one of the most thorough and versatile scholars. From his father he had the cheerfulness and love of joking which made him the most pleasant company to have; from his mother he had the seriousness and severity which made young men and young men see in him a role model and a support for themselves. Early on he supported his parents, later supported them completely, and nothing pained him more than the thought that the grief over his son's adverse fate had broken his father's heart. His stay at the Magdeburg Cathedral High School, which was in exemplary condition, became of crucial importance for his entire life and aspirations. Here the seeds of everything that moved his life in both joyful and sorrowful ways were laid. Here he learned, above all, the never-ending diligence, the most conscientious loyalty to small things, as well as the ability to look at the big picture; here he imbibed the insatiable thirst for knowledge. Even as a Tertian, at the suggestion of his full professor Friedrich Wiggert, who had the most lasting influence on him, he created comprehensive grammatical and historical collections, and the sense of observation that particularly distinguished him and gradually developed to the greatest subtlety The writers' use of language certainly grew out of these. The same teacher also instilled in him the librarian and bibliographic inclinations through which he later acquired a vast and at the same time thorough knowledge of books. Even as a tertian, he laid the foundation for his library, which was guarded like a treasure, although by no means closed to others, and as a primary he made a trip to Wolfenbüttel to get to know the famous library there. It was there that his poetic inclinations were first awakened. The poems in the native language, of which only a few have reached the public, are characterized by their skill in form, but especially by their depth of feeling. In the art of Latin poetry, very few people of his time were able to equal him. (Among the best are the poems for the marriage of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm [1858], for the celebration of the victorious return of the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and of King Wilhelm I from the war with Austria [1866], for the fiftieth anniversary of his colleague Hinrich Middeldorpf's doctorate [1860]; very The “Propempticon” for Th is also humorous. Mommsen, 1858.) He, like his school friend Fickert, the author of the charmingly written “Memoria Haasii” and many other pupils of the institution, is also encouraged to cultivate a Latin style that is not only correct, but also one that is rich and graceful been. In this too, he was only surpassed by a few contemporaries. How splendidly his Latin speeches and programs read; his introduction to Tacitus is, in a sense, a work of art. His enthusiasm for gymnastics also comes from school. What he did secretly there and as a student at the time of the gymnastics ban, he did so after a cabinet order from Friedrich Wilhelm IV. was released again, not only continued in Breslau himself, but he also aroused true enthusiasm among students and older men. He himself was chairman of a gymnastics club for years and at the gymnastics festival of the second German gymnastics district in Breslau in 1865, “the seven-fifty-year-old professor, diligently participated in gymnastics from start to finish and finally gave one of his best gymnastics speeches.” At school he also became acquainted with the ideas of the German fraternity and suffered from them, whatever he had for them must, faithfully, like one, held on until his death. Finally, at school he not only made friends for life, but also had the opportunity to test a side of his nature on which a good part of the success he later achieved was based: the power, yes one could say, the magic of his personality. Just as he suddenly persuaded his classmates to stop the mischief that they had always done with one of the teachers and, at least as long as he was at school, not to return, so as a student he often stopped The decisions of his fellow students had a decisive influence, so as a teacher he won the hearts and ears not only of the pupils and students, but also of his colleagues. In this way, at Schulpforte, with the agreement of some of his colleagues, he managed to restore the director's authority, which had become severely weakened by both teachers and students. And so he took the hearts of the people of Breslau, yes, you could say, the people of Silesia, by storm. Given the zeal with which he, as an old fraternity member, took part in the newly awakened political life, it could not have been missing that he was elected chairman of the constitutional association and in 1849 was sent from the Jauer district as a member of the National Assembly in Berlin, in which he was joined the left-wing center, and that later he was always at the head of the old liberal electoral association. He was also sent to Weimar as a deputy by the Schiller Association in Breslau, to which he devoted the greatest interest. And he never missed an opportunity to be active in charitable interests. To mention just one thing, he was one of the first to put himself at the head of transport trains in 1866 to deliver food and refreshments to the Prussian troops in Bohemia and Moravia. Of course, he also had an important voice in the university senate, where he sat for years, and in the faculty. But it was most important to the students, on whom the serious masculinity combined with youthful freshness could not fail to make a deep and lasting impression. But how did he take care of them through support that often exceeded his means, through the establishment of scholarships, a loan fund, a reading room, a student library! But above all with what dedication he was active for their spiritual training and education! Not only did he offer them almost complete scientific material in his lectures, he also tried to educate them to become independent collaborators in the field of philology. His work as leader of the seminar exercises was absolutely unique in this regard. From these a very impressive series of works has emerged which belong to the most diverse areas of philology, although they are perhaps most significant in the field of syntax. Gradually the reputation of this spirit-awakening and captivating activity spread far beyond the borders of Silesia, and students from Allen parts of Germany, including some who had already studied in Bonn, the first philological school, came to Breslau. And so there are a considerable number of well-known philologists among his many students. The majority of them, of course, became schoolmen: for them there could be no better school than Haase's, which placed the scientific side of the study of philology first and foremost, but also gave a very special pedagogical training in the lectures and exercises care was given. However, the number of his students who have embarked on an academic career is also not small. Despite the fact that H. developed such a wide range of activities, despite the fact that he was always ready to give advice and information, despite the fact that he was also responsible for the preparation of his lectures, which spanned a wide range and sought to fill it completely, as well as for the review and assessment of the numerous While it took a lot of time to complete seminar and doctoral theses in a wide variety of areas, even though he finally worked slowly, thanks to his truly astonishing hard work, he also achieved achievements in the field of philological writing, which secured him an imperishable name in the history of science. But this is all the more important because, as he himself felt best, an adverse fate ruled over his scientific work. The best that he could give remained unfinished, and he had to write the majority of his larger works under the pressure of external circumstances. In his first semesters he was, as he himself admits, such an unconditional supporter formal philology that he did not hear One Hour College from Meier, the representative of the opposite direction in Halle. It was only Schömann in Greifswald that opened his eyes to the understanding of real philology, and his first work, the aforementioned edition of Xenophon, bore full testimony to how hard he had since then tried to combine both equal sides of his science. It can hardly be denied that he achieved more in the former as a result of his greater inclination and talent; just as little that he was greater as a Latinist than as a Greekist. His most serious achievement lies in the field of grammar: not so much in the construction of a system of grammar, in which he was under the influence of Hegelian philosophy, as in the position and partial solution of the tasks that fall to semasiology (the theory of meaning). and in researching the historical development to which the laws of language have been subjected over the centuries. There is nothing more to be lamented than the fact that he did not publish his “Latin Grammar” beyond its very beginnings. His friend Eckstein only began publishing the “Lectures on Latin Linguistics” after his death (1874). Next, he was most fruitful in the field of criticism, which he served partly through editions and partly through longer or shorter essays. The point of view he took in it was conservative, similar to that of his friend Moritz Haupt. As with this one, it also extended to a very large circle of writers, but less than to poets. It benefited the rhetor and philosopher Seneca the most. For in the corpus of the Greek and Roman war writers, a work so magnificently laid out that it seems to exceed the strength of one person, he did not go much beyond collecting the material. His numerous works on the history of philology, especially in the Middle Ages, are particularly valuable. As a researcher in the field of real philology, he appears in his work: “The Athenian Stammverfassung”, 1857, in addition to the aforementioned edition of Xenophon and in many articles in the encyclopedia by Ersch and Gruber. Finally, how he, a true humanist, averse to all one-sidedness, kept his eyes on the big picture is best expressed in his article “Philology” in the same encyclopedia.

Karl Heinrich Althaus was on the 1st. January 1806 in Hanover as the son of Karl Philipp Christian Althaus (* 6. April 1775 in Gehmen, died. 28. March 1869 in Hanover), Protestant Reformed pastor in Hanover from 1805 to 1869, and Friederike, née. Born with a limp.

He received his doctorate in Halle in 1837 (dissertation: "Prolegomena de summo in literarum studio fine et de disciplinarum nexu. Particula I"; i.e. about the introduction to the end of literary studies and the connection between the disciplines) and completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1838. Since 1837 he was a private lecturer at the University of Berlin, and in 1859 he became a professor there.

From 1837 Althaus in Berlin was also a member of the so-called Doctor's Club ("Doctorklubb") of the Left Hegelians, which united the criticism of religion and the Prussian state. The young Karl Marx (1818-1883), Karl Friedrich Köppen (1808-1863), Bruno Bauer (1809-1882) and Adolf Friedrich Rutenberg (1808-1869) also frequented there.

On the 8th In April 1843 he married Angelika Luise (Angelica Louise) a student, née in Berlin. at the 14th. January 1808 in Berlin as the only daughter of the merchant Johann Benjamin Jünger; gest. on the 25th. August 1880 at the age of 72 in Berlin. Her father had on the 3rd December 1794 married Carolina Sophia Tornow, eldest daughter of the Spandau merchant Carl Friedrich Tornow (gest. 18. March 1823 in Berlin).

She was the widow of the professor of philosophy in Halle Johann Georg Mußmann (1795-1833), whom she married on December 23rd. He married in September 1830 (son of the master blacksmith in Reichenberg near Danzig, Johann Friedrich David Mußmann). This marriage remained childless.

Althaus died on the 22nd. October 1886 at the age of 80 in Berlin.

From the marriage between Karl Heinrich Althaus and Angelika Luise, b. Students gave birth to five children:

-Karl Hermann Althaus (* 9. February 1844 in Berlin, died. 25. March 1898 in Berka), Dr. of philosophy and high school teacher, who died on January 1st. March 1875 in Berlin Marie Louise Charlotte married Anna Schrader von Beauvryé, née. 29. December 1852 in Schöneberg near Berlin as the daughter of the royal. Accounts Council and retired Prime Lieutenant Albin Schrader von Beauvryé. Children were Elisabeth Althaus (* 17. December 1875), who married Alfred Scheel, and Marta Althaus (* 9. March 1883)

-Heinrich Georg Althaus (* 25. February 1845 in Berlin, died. on the 31st October 1894 in Berlin), Royal. District judge and district judge in Berlin, who died on January 2nd. April 1884 in Berlin Marie Adelgunde married Auguste von Dechend, née. on the 22nd November 1855 in Berlin as the daughter of the Reichsbank President Hermann von Dechend (1814-1890) and Adelgunde, née. Wilke, died. on the 30th March 1917 in Teupitz

-Adelheid Althaus (* 17. October 1846 in Berlin, died. 20. August 1923 in Wittstock / Dosse)

-Ernst Ludwig Althaus (* 9. May 1848 in Berlin, died. 5. April 1933 in Braunschweig), Dr. of philosophy (diss. Berlin 1874 "Quaestionum de Iulii Pollucis fontibus specimen") and teacher at the Askanian Gymnasium in Berlin. On the 15th In April 1884 he married the teacher Anna Elisabeth Schmiel (* 19. April 1857 or 1858 in Berlin), daughter of the full teacher at the teachers' seminar at the Augusta School Wilhelm Ottomar Schmiel and Julie Luise Anna, née. Stieff. One of their sons was Ernst Althaus (* 19. February 1889 in Berlin; † 21. April 1977 in Herford), German lawyer and mayor of the cities of Minden and Herford.

-Conrad Althaus