Arthur Examiner

Arthur Prüfer (born July 7, 1868 in Leipzig , † June 3, 1944 in Würzburg ) was a German musicologist .

Life

He first attended the Teichmannsche private school in Leipzig, then the boarding school Salzmannschule Schnepfenthal in Thuringia and passed the Abitur at the Nikolaischule in Leipzig. From 1880 to 1889 he studied law and musicology in Leipzig, Heidelberg, Berlin and Jena. In 1886 the doctorate to Dr. jur. in Heidelberg, 1890 doctorate in musicology. In 1895 he received his habilitation in Leipzig with Hermann Kretzschmar and Oscar Paul on Johann Hermann Schein , the composer and Thomas Cantor . In 1902 he became an unscheduled associate professor of musicology alongside Hugo Riemann in Leipzig , where he also retired in 1936. As a knight he was accepted into the Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht (1916). In his private life he became impoverished by the inflation of 1923 and was dependent on support. From 1913 to 1922 he was a member of the anti-Semitic Gauloge Leipzig in the Germanic Order . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

Examiner was an expert on Schein and Richard Wagner .

Johann Hermann Schein , 1895 (Reprint 1989, ISBN 3-7618-0936-0 )
Johann Hermann Schein and the Secular Song of the 17th Century , 1903
The work of Bayreuth (collection of lectures on the Bayreuth Festival), 1909
Music as a resounding Faust idea , 1920
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg in 3 Acts (Complete poem with an introduction to the work) , 1926
Introduction to Richard Wagner's Lohengrin , 2nd edition 1937

Kirsten Büsing, Anne Büsing: Hermann Bernhard Arthur Prüfer , in: Alumnen and their ex-libris: 600 years University of Leipzig , 2009, p. 42f ISBN 978-3-8348-0859-2

personal data
SURNAME	Examiner, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Examiner, Hermann Bernhard Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musicologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 7, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1944
Place of death	Wurzburg