Albert Waag

Albert Waag (born June 10, 1863 in Mannheim , † June 8, 1929 in Heidelberg ) was a Privy Councilor , philologist , pedagogue, author of numerous educational and philological works.

life and work

Albert Waag is the son of the district cashier Albert W. Waag (* 1820) and his wife Caroline, b. Wolf (* 1834). He himself obtained the general university entrance qualification in 1881 and from the winter semester 1881/82 studied linguistics at the University of Freiburg with a focus on German philology , for which he received his doctorate in 1886. On January 20, 1893, he obtained his habilitation.

Before that he had been employed as a teacher since 1886, in 1896 he was director of the Helmholtz high school in Heidelberg and since March 1897 a member of the Karlsruhe High School Board . From 1911 to 1928 he was director of the Höhere Girls School founded in 1877 and the Realgymnasium, the Hölderlin-Gymnasium . In the winter semester of 1917/18 Waag was appointed full professor at Heidelberg University.

He was with Maria, geb. Ris, married who survived him. The couple had no children.

Works

• The composition of the Vorauer manuscript , inaugural dissertation, Halle 1885
• About Herder's translations of English poems. Heidelberg 1892.
• About language and writing. Lahr 1901
• Short German history of the 11th and 12th centuries . Halle 1890, 2nd edition 1916
• Development of the meaning of our vocabulary , Lahr 1901; 3rd edition 1915
• Ludwig Sütterlin, Albert Waag: German language teaching for higher educational institutions , Leipzig 1905, 9th edition 1930
• Something about the Karlsruhe dialect. Karlsruhe 1907

swell

• Dagmar Drüll : Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon , Springer 2013, ISBN 9783642707605 , page 280

Individual evidence

1. ^ Headmasters . Helmholtz High School Heidelberg