Background
Hermann Bonitz was born on the 29th of July, 1814 in Bad Langensalza, Thuringia, Germany.
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philologist philosopher university professor
Hermann Bonitz was born on the 29th of July, 1814 in Bad Langensalza, Thuringia, Germany.
Hermann Bonitz studied at Leipzig under G. Hermann and at Berlin under Böckh and Lachmann.
Hermann Bonitz became successively teacher at the Blochmann-Institut in Dresden (1836), Oberlehrer at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (1838) and the Graues Kloster (1840) in Berlin, professor at the gymnasium at Stettin (Szczecin) (1842), professor at the University of Vienna (1849), member of the Imperial Academy (1854), member of the council of education (1864), and director of the Graues-Kloster-Gymnasium (1867).
Hermann Bonitz took great interest in higher education, and was chiefly responsible for the system of teaching and examination in use in the high schools of Prussia after 1882. But it is as a commentator on Plato and Aristotle that he is best known outside Germany.
His most important works in this connection are, Disputationes Platonicae Duae (1837), Platonische Studien (3rd ed, 1886), Beiträge zur Erklärung des Thukydides (1854), des Sophokles (1856-1857).
Hermann Bonitz also wrote largely on classical and educational subjects, mainly for the Zeitschrift für die österreichischen Gymnasien. A full list of his writings is given in the obituary notice by Theodor Gomperz in the Biographisches Jahrbuch fr Altertumskunde (1890).
Hermann Bonitz was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople.
