Hermann August Theodor Köchly (born

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, 5 August 1815; died

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, 3 December 1876) was a German

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and educational reformer.

Biography

He studied at Leipzig, taught at the

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Progymnasium (1837) and at the

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Kreuzschule (1840). In February 1849, Köchly was elected to the lower house of the

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, but that same year was forced to flee to

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on account of his participation in the May insurrection. He was appointed professor of classical philology at

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in 1851, and at

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in 1864. He was a member of the Reichstag from 1871 to 1873 and attached himself to the Progressive Party. Koechly

Works

Educational reform

* ''Ueber das Princip des Gymnasialunterrichts der Gegenwart'' (Principals for gymnasial instruction for modern times, 1845) * ''Zur Gymnasialreform'' (Reforming gymnasiums, 1846) The scheme set forth in these pamphlets stressed the natural sciences, and, in

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and

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, 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

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almost immediately.

Grecian epics

* Critical essays on Quintus Smyrnæus (Leipzig, 1830) * ''Hesiod'', in collaboration with Gottfried Kinkel (1870) * An edition of ''Aratus, Manethonis, Maximi et aliorum astrologica'' (Paris, 1851) * An edition of the text of ''Apostelesmata'' (Leipzig, 1858) * ''Dionysiaca of Nonnos'' (Leipzig, 1858) * Seven dissertations on ''De Iliadis carminibus'' (Zürich, 1850–59) * ''De diversis Hesiodeæ Theogoniæ partibus'' (Zürich, 1860) * ''Iliadis Carmina XVI'' (1861) * Three dissertations on ''De Odysseæ carminibus'' (Zürich, 1862–63) * ''Opuscula epica IV'' (Zürich, 1864).

Ancient military subjects

* ''Geschichte des Griechischen Kriegswesens von der ältesten Zeit bis auf Pyrrhos'' (Aarau, 1852) * ''Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller'' (Leipzig, 1853–55)
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* ''Einleitung in Cäsars Kommentarien über den gallischen Krieg'' (Gotha, 1857) * ''Onosandri de imperatoris officio Liber'' (Leipzig, 1860)

Others' works

* An edition of Arrian's ''Anabasis'' (1861) * Editions of ''Euripides'' and ''Iphigenia in Taurien'' (1863) * An edition of ''Medea'' (1867) He did translations, especially of Caesar, Aeschylus, etc. A collection of his smaller works is found in his ''Opuscula academica'' (Leipzig, 1853–56), ''Akademische Vorträge und Reden'' (Zürich, 1856) and ''Opuscula philologica'' (Leipzig 1881–82).

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;Attribution * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kochly, Hermann 1815 births 1876 deaths Writers from Leipzig People from the Kingdom of Saxony German Lutherans German Progress Party politicians Members of the Second Chamber of the Diet of the Kingdom of Saxony Members of the 1st Reichstag of the German Empire Forty-Eighters German philologists People educated at the Kreuzschule Academic staff of the University of Zurich Academic staff of Heidelberg University 19th-century Lutherans