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JEEP, Ludwig August

  • JEEP, Ludwig August
  • Date of Birth: August 12, 1846
  • Born City: Wolfenbüttel
  • Born State/Country: Germany
  • Parents: Justus, a schoolteacher in Holzminden, later headmaster (Gymnasialdirektor) of the Gymnasium at Wolfenbüttel, & Emilie Klotz J
  • Date of Death: January 4, 1911
  • Death City: Königsberg
  • Death State/Country: Germany
  • Married: Ida Warburg, 1874.
  • Education:

    Wolfenbüttel Gymnasium, 1865; Göttingen; Royal Philological Seminar, Leipzig, Ph.D., 1869; teaching certificate, 1870; post-doctoral research journeys to Munich, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Montecassino, Perugia, Verona, and Milan, 1870–71, examining manuscript holdings in major libraries; studied for habilitation, 
  • Dissertation:

    Quaestiones criticae ad emendationem Claudiani panegyricorum spectantes (Ph.D.,Leipzig, 1869; publ. Leipzig: Teubner, 1869). 
  • Professional Experience:

    Teacher, Thomasschule, Leipzig, 1871-4; Oberlehrer in 1874-80; Königliches Friedrichskollegium, Königsberg, 1880-3; habilitated, 1883; lecturer, 1883-6; ausserordentlicher prof,. 1886-7; extraordinarius, 1887-93; ordinarius and director, Philological Seminar and Proseminar, 1893-1910; Dean, Philosophical Faculty, 1901–2; Rector magnificus, 1902–3; Geheimer Regierungsrat (Privy Council), 1910.
  • Publications:

    “Die Handschriften von Claudians Raptus Proserpinae,” Acta societatis philologicae Lipsiensis 1 (1872) 345–87; “De Claudiani codice Veronae nuper reperto: commentatio critica,” in Festschrift der Thomasschule zur Philologenversammlung in Leipzig (Leipzig, 1872) 43–54; “Zu Claudian de VI consulatu Honorii: Ein Beitrag zur römischen Topographie,” RhM 27 (1872) 269–77; “Nachträgliches über die Handschriften von Claudians Raptus Proserpinae,” RhM 28 (1873) 304–8; Die älteste Textesrecension des Claudian (Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1873); Raptus Proserpinae (Turin: A. Loescher, 1874); Gli studii classici in Italia: considerazioni di Lodovico Jeep (Turin: V. Bona, 1874); Claudii Claudiani Carmina, 2 vols. (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1876); Quaestiones Fridericianae (Turin, 1881); “Die Lücken in der Chronik des Malalas,” RhM 36 (1881) 351–61; “Die Lebenszeit des Zosimos,” RhM  38 (1883) 153–5; Die verlorenen Bücher des Ammianus Marcellinus: ein Beitrag zur römischen Literaturgeschichte (Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1888); Bemerkungen zu den lateinischen Grammatikern (Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1889); Jahresbericht über die römischen Epiker nach Vergilius von 1883–1889. I: Lucanus, Silius Italicus und Ilias Latina des Italicus. (S.n., 1890); Zur Geschichte der Lehre von den Redetheilen bei den lateinischen Grammatikern. (Leipzig: Teubner, 1893); Jahresbericht über die römischen Epiker nach Vergilius für 1890–1893 und 1883–1893, nebst einigen Nachträgen (S.n., 1894); “Überlieferungsgeschichte der Scriptores Historiae Augustae,” RhM 49 (1894) 1–59; “Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des Ammianus Marcellinus,” RhM  51 (1896) 1–36; Zur Überlieferung des Philostorgios (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1899 = Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, N.F. 2, 3b²; ed. Gebhardt and Harnack.]; Beiträge zur Überlieferungsgeschichte der römischen Literatur. [S.n.], 1908; Part II, 1909); “Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des Claudianus,” RhM 56 (1901) 272–86; “Nochmals zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des Claudianus,” RhM 57 (1902) 157–60; Philostorgius: Kirchengeschichte  (Leipzig: Teubner, 1913. 
  • Notes:

    Ludwig Jeep studied at Göttingen under the epigraphist Hermann Sauppe (1809-93) and the archaeologist and historian Ernst Curtius (1814-96). At Leipzig he was admitted to the philological seminar run by Friedrich August Eckstein (1810-85), who would later secure him his first teaching position at the Thomasschule, where Eckstein was headmaster. Jeep also studied under Georg Curtius (1820-85), but most importantly under Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806-76), whose standards of manuscript-based tradition (Jeep spent a year after gradation studying manuscripts in Europe) and the correction of corrupted passages in devising serviceable texts, guided Jeep’s entire career. Jeep contributed critical editions and text studies of Claudian (replaced by Birt’s edition of 1892), the late Latin historians, Ammianus Marcellinus, Zosimus, and Malalas. He also contributed to the study of the Latin grammarians. His edition of the fourth-century Arian ecclesiastical historian Philostorgius, whose work survives only in a ninth-century epitome, became standard. He made no discoveries or methodological innovations but produced competent texts of later Latin authors following both the positive and negative aspects of Ritschl’s influence: precise readings that prioritize the manuscript tradition over later glosses and emendations but with a failure to produce truly original or wider synthetic judgements. 
  • Sources:

    Johannes Tolkiehn, BBJ 35 (1913) 121-32; bibl. 131-3; NDB 2 (2003) 56.
  • Author: Ward Briggs