Adalbert Hämel (Romanist)

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Adalbert Haemel (born October 28, 1885 in Straubing , † December 11, 1952 in Erlangen ) was a German Romance and Hispanic scholar.

life and work

Hämel's father was a district school supervisor, his younger brother was the dermatologist Josef Hämel (1894–1969). After graduating from the Straubing Humanist High School in July 1904, Hämel first studied theology in Eichstätt. Here he became a member of the Catholic student association Academia in KV . From 1906 he studied Romance and English in Erlangen and from 1908 in Würzburg, in Erlangen he became a member of the Catholic Association Rhenania, in Würzburg the K.St.V. Walhalla Würzburg , both also in KV. In 1909 he did his doctorate with Karl Vossler in Würzburg with The Cid in the Spanish drama of the XVI. and XVII. Century (hall as 1910). After short study stays in Paris, Rome and Oxford and taking the state examination, he became a teacher in Bayreuth in 1911.

He was drafted for military service in 1916 and, after attending the interpreting school in Berlin, worked as the head of news at the headquarters. After the end of the war, Hämel was a teacher at the secondary school in Würzburg from 1920 and completed his habilitation in Würzburg with Walther Küchler (1877-1953) with studies on Lope de Vegas youth dramas (Würzburg 1925). Since 1923, Hämel was appointed full professor of Romance philology there in 1929 (after a first placement in Innsbruck ) as the successor to Arthur Franz (1881–1963), and in 1940 he was also elected dean and later prorector.

Haemel was a staunch Catholic. He became a supporting member of the SS , was a member of the SA reserve from 1934 to 1937 and a member of the NSDAP since 1937 . He was the doctoral supervisor of Leo Trepp , who received his doctorate on June 16, 1935 on the subject of “ Taine , Montaigne , Richeome . Your conceptions of religion and church. A Contribution to French Essence ”with him. In 1944 he was accepted into the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Hämel's ambivalent attitude towards National Socialism led to his being dismissed from his professorship in 1945. In September 1947 he was classified as a "fellow traveler" in the denazification process and fined 1000 Reichsmarks.

In 1948/49 Hämel then taught for two semesters in the Romance Department of the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg , followed in 1949 a call to the newly created second professorship at the Romance Department of the University of Erlangen and was elected Rector there in 1952. Shortly after taking office, he died of a heart attack.

Hämel researched and published in particular on French literature of the Middle Ages and the history of Spanish literature; he loved the art, culture and literature of the Mediterranean region. In addition, he was involved in the field of music; he played the organ and composed. Hämel was very popular with his students. He donated essential parts of his library to the Romance Studies Department of the University of Würzburg.

Hämel had been childless married to the writer Angela Hämel-Stier (* 1886) since 1913 .

Hämel was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of History, the Hispanic Society in New York and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Other works

  • (Ed.) Don Quixote de la Mancha, critical edition , 2 volumes, Halle as 1925, 1926
  • Arturo Schopenhauer y la Literatura Espaniola , 1926
  • Rousseau. Man and his work. For school use , Leipzig 1927
  • Reader in Spanish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries , 1928
  • The Romance Philology in Würzburg. In: Festschrift for the 350th anniversary of the University of Würzburg , Berlin 1932, pp. 255–267
  • Tradition and meaning of the Liber Sancti Jacobi and the Pseudo-Turpin , Munich 1950
  • The Romance Cultures and the European Community Idea , 1953
  • The pseudo-Turpin of Compostela . From the estate, ed. by André de Mandach, Munich 1965

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Gunnar Bartsch: Role models in dark times (accessed on December 26, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Haemel, Adalbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haemel, Adalbert Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1952
Place of death gain