August Buck

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August Buck (born December 3, 1911 in Delitzsch ; † July 15, 1998 ) was a German Romance studies and professor for Romance philology at the Philipps University of Marburg . The focus of his scientific work was humanism and renaissance research . Buck was President of the German Dante Society and Rector of the University of Marburg.

Live and act

Buck was the son of the land registry director August Buck and his wife Herma, nee. Pause. After attending elementary school and high school in Delitzsch , he passed the school leaving examination on March 5, 1931.

After completing his studies, he received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1936. His dissertation dealt with Platonism in the poems of Lorenzo de Medici . In the winter of 1936/37 he represented the Italian editing department in Kiel . In 1942 he completed his habilitation there on Italian poetry . From 1943 he was a lecturer at the German Institute in Venice and was to take over the management of a branch in Milan in 1945 .

In his research, Buck devoted himself above all to Italian intellectual history, French literature of the 18th century and humanism and its reception. In 1949 he was appointed professor. In 1957 he followed the call to the professorship in Marburg . 1966/67 he was rector of the University of Marburg.

Buck was President of the German Dante Society from 1972 to 1993 for 21 years . In addition, from 1972 to 1974 he was Vice President of the Academy of German-Italian Studies . The Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen were founded in 1977 by him. He was its editor for more than two decades. Bodo Guthmüller was co-editor from 1996 until Buck's death , who also succeeded him on the Marburg chair.

Publications (selection)

  • as editor with Notker Hammerstein : Handbuch der deutschen Bildungsgeschichte . Volume 1: 15.-17. Century. From the Renaissance and the Reformation to the end of the religious battles. Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-32463-0 .
  • as editor: The Europe idea (= series of Villa Vigoni. 7). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-484-67007-X .
  • as editor: The occult sciences in the Renaissance (= Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung. 12). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-447-03250-2 .
  • as editor with Tibor Klaniczay : Social-historical questions in Renaissance research (= Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung. 13). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-447-03249-9 .
  • The villa as a way of life in the Italian Renaissance (= meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. 29, 1). Steiner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-515-06108-8 .
  • Studies on humanism and renaissance. Collected essays from the years 1981–1990 (= Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung. 11). Edited by Bodo Guthmüller, Karl Kohut and Oskar Roth. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-447-03239-1 .
  • as editor: Humanism and Historiography. VCH - Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1991, ISBN 3-527-17029-4 .
  • as editor: Renaissance and Renaissanceism from Jacob Burckhardt to Thomas Mann (= series of Villa Vigoni. 4). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1990, ISBN 3-484-67004-5 .
  • as editor: Courtly Humanism (= communication from the Commission for Humanism Research. 16). VCH - Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1989, ISBN 3-527-17024-3 .
  • as editor: Erasmus and Europe. Lectures (= Wolfenbütteler Treatises on Renaissance Research. 7). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-447-02839-4 .
  • The Italian Renaissance from the perspective of the 20th century (= meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. 24, 2). Steiner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-515-05150-3 .
  • The reception of humanism in the law and medicine faculties of the Italian universities. In: Gundolf Keil , Bernd Moeller , Winfried Trusen (eds.): Humanism and the upper faculties. Acta Humaniora - VCH, Weinheim 1987 (= communications from the Commission for Research on Humanism. Volume 14). ISBN 3-527-17016-2 , pp. 159-171, 267-284.
  • Humanism. Its European development in documents and representations (= Orbis academicus. 1: Humanities department. 16). Alber, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1987, ISBN 3-495-47627-X .
  • as editor with Tibor Klaniczay : The end of the Renaissance. European culture around 1600. Lectures (= Wolfenbüttel treatises on Renaissance research. 6). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02687-1 .
  • Machiavelli (= proceeds of research. 226). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1985, ISBN 3-534-01294-1 , online .
  • as editor: Renaissance - Reformation. Opposites and similarities. Lectures (= Wolfenbütteler Treatises on Renaissance Research. 5). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-447-02476-3 .
  • as editor: biography and autobiography in the Renaissance (= Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung. 4). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-447-02412-7 .
  • as editor with Klaus Heitmann : The reception of antiquity in the sciences during the Renaissance (= communication from the Commission for Research on Humanism. 10). Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1983, ISBN 3-527-17004-9 .
  • as ed. with Otto Herding : The commentary in the Renaissance. Bonn-Bad Godesberg / Boppard 1975 (= German Research Foundation: Communications from the Commission for Research on Humanism. Volume 1), pp. 209–224. Also in: Gerhard Baader, Gundolf Keil (Hrsg.): Medicine in the Middle Ages Occident. Darmstadt 1982, pp. 476-493.
  • Studia humanitatis. Collected essays 1973–1980. Celebration for the 70th birthday. Published on behalf of the students, friends and colleagues of Bodo Guthmüller, Karl Kohut, Oskar Roth. Academic Publishing Company Athenaion, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-7997-0801-4 .
  • Humanistic forms of life. The role of the Italian humanists in contemporary society (= lectures by the Aeneas Silvius Foundation at the University of Basel. 18). Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel et al. 1981, ISBN 3-7190-0805-3 .
  • as editor: The reception of antiquity. On the problem of the continuity between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (= Wolfenbütteler Treatises on Renaissance Research. 1). Hauswedell, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-7762-0205-X .
  • Research on Romanesque Baroque literature (= income from research. 130). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-534-08003-3 .
  • as editor: Petrarca (= ways of research. 353). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 3-534-05723-6 .
  • as editor: Rabelais (= ways of research. 284). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1973, ISBN 3-534-04964-0 .
  • New manual of literary studies. Volume 10: Renaissance and Baroque. Academic Publishing Company Athenaion, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7997-0095-1 .
  • New manual of literary studies. Volume 9: Renaissance and Baroque. Academic Publishing Company Athenaion, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7997-0094-3 .
  • as editor: On the concept and problem of the Renaissance (= ways of research. 204). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1969, ISBN 3-534-04411-8 .
  • The humanistic tradition in Romania. Gehlen, Bad Homburg 1968.
  • The Orpheus myth in the Italian Renaissance (= writings and lectures of the Petrarca Institute Cologne. 15, ISSN  0531-0210 ). Scherpe, Krefeld 1961.

literature

  • Bernhard König : Obituary for August Buck . In: German Dante Yearbook. Volume 73. Edited by Marcella Roddewig on behalf of the German Dante Society. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 1998, p. 7 f.
  • Hans Ludwig Scheel : August Buck (1911-1998). His services to Dante . In: German Dante Yearbook. Volume 74. Edited by Marcella Roddewig on behalf of the German Dante Society. Böhlau, Köln, Weimar, Wien 1999, pp. 7–12.
  • Klaus Heitmann : August Buck (1911-1998) . In: Romanische Forschungen 111. Bd., H. 2 (1999), pp 235-237.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Platonism in the poems of Lorenzo de 'Medicis . Leipzig, Phil. Diss. 1936, Junker a. Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1936.
  2. ↑ Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the end of the Renaissance . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1952.
  3. ↑ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war the muses are not silent". The German Scientific Institutes in World War II , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35357-X , pp. 353, 366 f.
personal data
SURNAME Buck, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor; Full professor and rector at the University of Marburg
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Delitzsch
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1998