Arthur Luther

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Arthur Luther , also Artur Ljuter , (born May 3, 1876 in Orjol , † May 28, 1955 in Baden-Baden ) was a German literary scholar , librarian , translator and interpreter . His lexical volume Deutsches Land in German Narrative and translations from Russian and French into German made him famous .

Life

The Moscow Art Theater (1947)

The son of the grammar school professor Theodor Luther, born in 1849, graduated from grammar school in his birthplace in 1894 and then studied Slavic studies and literary history in Moscow . From 1896 he wrote literary reviews for the Moscow German newspaper . Arthur Luther studied German in Berlin from 1900 and taught history of literature in Moscow from 1903. From 1910 to 1912 he studied German and Slavic studies in Munich , Heidelberg and Leipzig . In 1912 he received his doctorate from Moscow University , where he taught German.

When war broke out in the summer of 1914 , Arthur Luther was in Germany. He stayed for the rest of his life and found the field of activity that suited him in the Deutsche Bücherei . Appointed library councilor in 1918, he worked there as director of the Leipzig library until his retirement in 1944; published in the literary Centralblatt für Deutschland and in the magazine Osteuropa . In addition, he was committed to helping Germans understand Russian for many years in Leipzig - for example, from 1923–1938 at the German Booksellers College . For various publishers, including the Leipzig company Insel with the well-known Insel-Bücherei , Reclam and Bibliographisches Institut , he translated Russian literature. Finally, from 1942 to 1943, he worked at the interpreting institute at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

After the war , Arthur Luther accepted a call to Marburg and from 1946–1951 held a teaching position for modern Russian literary and art history .

Meta and Arthur Luther had been married since 1900. The marriage produced a daughter and a son. The latter, Professor of Zoology Wolfgang Luther (1903-1967), worked in the field of basic radiobiological research in Darmstadt . Meta Luther - the doctor's daughter from Riga - died in 1926.

Works (selection)

author

  • Goethe. Six lectures by Arthur Luther. Held in the winter of 1905 before Germans in Moscow. Digitized as .pdf in the Internet Archive . Hellmann publishing house
  • Franz Grillparzer . Edition 34 of contributions to literary history . Publishing house for literature, art and music 1907.
  • Jesus and Judas in poetry. A contribution to comparative literary history . Clauss & Feddersen, Hanau 1910.
  • The spiritual and political world of ideas of the Bolsheviks in the context of currents in Russian society and literature . Göschen, Berlin-Leipzig 1918.
  • A year of Bolshevism . W. Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1919.
  • Alt-Dorpat and the Russian intellectual life . Published by Fritz Würtz, Berlin-Riga-Leipzig 1920.
  • History of Russian Literature . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1924.
  • German land in German narrative. A local literary dictionary . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1936, 1937 (German history in German story. A literary lexicon), 1940 and 1943. Together with Heinz Friesenhahn as: Land and people in German story. A bibliographic literary dictionary . Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1954
  • Kalewala. The Finnish myth of the becoming of the world and of man . Leipzig: Ash 1936; Kuppenheim / Murg: Elpis-Verl. 1948.
  • The demon. Novel. Esche Verlag, Leipzig 1937 (Staufen-Verlag), Krefeld 1949.
  • The Kremlin and its time . Leipzig: Möhring 1940.
  • The Moscow Art Theater . Seemann, Leipzig 1947.
  • Studies on German Poetry. Elpis-Verlag, Kuppenheim 1949.
  • Little Russian literary history. An overview from the beginning until 1917 . Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker 1949.

translator

from Russian
  • along with
    • H. Kolls: Dostojewski : Poor people and other stories . Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1924 and 1926.
    • Elisabeth Meyer: Sergei Platonow: History of Russia from the beginning to the present . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1926.
    • Rudolf Karmann: Iwan Schmeljow : The street of joy . Eckart, Berlin 1957.
    • Julius Grünberg: Wladimir Korolenko : The blind musician and other stories . Reclam, Leipzig 1922.
    • Julius Grünberg: Wladimir Korolenko: The rustling forest and other stories . Reclam RUB 2869. Leipzig 1952.
    • Kurt Seeger: Alexander Ostrowski : Wolves and Sheep . Leipzig: Reclam 1952. (Reclam Universal Library. No. 7655/7656.)
from French
from Hungarian
  • along with
    • Josef Paul Tóth: Zsolt Harsányi : Hungarian Rhapsody. The life novel by Franz Liszt. Esche, Leipzig 1936.

editor

  • Leo Tolstoy . A life of self-confession. Diary sheets and letters. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1923.
  • As long as poets live. Pushkin Studies. For the 150th birthday of the poet . Scherpe, Krefeld 1949.
  • Dostoevsky: The Grand Inquisitor . Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klasing, 1950.
  • Sergei T. Aksakov : On the edge of the wilderness. A family chronicle . Schröder, Hamburg 1961.

Honors

  • Wilhelm Frels : Bibliography Lutherana. For Arthur Luther's 50th birthday on May 3, 1926. Compiled by employees of the Central Literary Gazette for Germany. Radelli & Hille, Leipzig 1926.

Memberships (selection)

literature

  • Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 204f.
  • Ernst Zunker: Luther, Arthur in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 15 (1987), pp. 540-541, online
  • Peter Wörster : "To the real Germany and the real Russia" - Arthur Luther on the 50th anniversary of his death . Yearbook of the Baltic Germans, Vol. 52 (2005), pp. 153–167.

Web links

annotation

  1. ↑ Arthur Luther's paternal grandfather was the senior physician Dr. med. Carl Dietrich Luther. One of his paternal uncle was the chemist Robert Luther .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gutenberg School Leipzig
  2. ↑ Harsanyi, Zsolt von .. In:  Hofmeister's musical-literary monthly report on new music, musical writings and illustrations , year 1936, December 1936, p. 262 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / yard
personal data
SURNAME Luther, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ljuter, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, librarian, translator and interpreter
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Oryol
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1955
Place of death Baden-Baden