August Rassmann

Friedrich August Ferdinand Reinhard Raßmann (also Raszmann ; born November 26, 1817 in Westuffeln ; † September 2, 1891 in Kassel ) was a German Protestant theologian and Germanist .

Life

August Raßmann studied theology in Marburg , also conducted historical and antiquarian studies and intended to devote himself to an academic career in Marburg. But since he had no prospect under the conditions at that time in Hesse , he returned to theology and was transferred to Steinbach-Hallenberg in 1859 and to Holzhausen near Kassel at the beginning of 1866 . Jacob Grimm took a warm interest in his first work, Die deutsche Heldensage und seine Heimat (2 vol., Hanover 1857–58) . In addition, Raßmann contributed with numerous contributions ( temples of gods and images of gods of the Germanic peoples , Götterdämmerung , Gothic language and literature , Greuthungen , Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm , Gudrun, etc.) to the encyclopedia by Versch and Gruber and wrote The Niflungasaga and the Nibelungenlied (Heilbronn 1877), among others

Works

• The German heroic saga and its home , Hanover: Carl Rümpler 1857/1858, 2nd edition 1863,
  • Vol. 1 The legend of the Wölsungen and Niflungs in the Edda and Wölsungasaga , XX + 426 pp.
  • Vol. 2 The legends of the Wölsungen and Niflungs, the Wilcinen and King Thidrek of Bern in the Thidrek saga , XLVI + 704 p.

• The Niflunga saga and the Nibelungenlied. A contribution to the history of the German heroic saga , Heilbronn: Gebr. Henninger 1877, 258 pp.

literature

• August Rassmann . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 13, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 586.