Hermann Köchly

Hermann August Theodor Köchly was a German philologist and educational reformer.

Biography

He studied at Leipzig, taught at the Saalfeld Progymnasium and at the Dresden Kreuzschule. In February 1849, Köchly was elected to the lower house of the Kingdom of Saxony, but that same year was forced to flee to Brussels on account of his participation in the May insurrection. He was appointed professor of classical philology at Zürich in 1851, and at Heidelberg in 1864. He was a member of the Reichstag from 1871 to 1873 and attached himself to the Progressive Party.

Works

Educational reform

Ueber das Princip des Gymnasialunterrichts der Gegenwart Zur Gymnasialreform
The scheme set forth in these pamphlets stressed the natural sciences, and, in Latin and Greek, urged emphasis on content rather than on grammar and style, and the gradual abolition of speaking and writing those languages. The plan was adopted in Saxony almost immediately.

Grecian epics

Critical essays on Quintus Smyrnæus Hesiod, in collaboration with Gottfried Kinkel
An edition of Aratus, Manethonis, Maximi et aliorum astrologica
An edition of the text of Apostelesmata Dionysiaca of Nonnos
Seven dissertations on De Iliadis carminibus De diversis Hesiodeæ Theogoniæ partibus Iliadis Carmina XVI
Three dissertations on De Odysseæ carminibus Opuscula epica IV.

Ancient military subjects

Geschichte des Griechischen Kriegswesens von der ältesten Zeit bis auf Pyrrhos Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller,,, .Einleitung in Cäsars Kommentarien über den gallischen Krieg

''Onosandri de imperatoris officio Liber''

Others' works

An edition of Arrian's Anabasis
Editions of Euripides and Iphigenia in Taurien
An edition of Medea

He did translations, especially of Caesar, Aeschylus, etc. A collection of his smaller works is found in his Opuscula academica, Akademische Vorträge und Reden and Opuscula philologica.