Bernhard Joseph Docen

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Bernhard Joseph Docen (born October 1, 1782 in Osnabrück , † November 21, 1828 in Munich ) was a German specialist in German studies and a librarian .

Life

Docen first studied medicine , but then switched to literature. While studying in Göttingen and Jena, he met Clemens Brentano and discovered his love for the Middle Ages and archeology .

In 1803 he settled in Munich, where Johann Christoph von Aretin appointed him to the first electoral and later royal court and state library (today: Bavarian State Library in Munich ). As a library employee, Docen viewed and published numerous culturally and materially valuable old manuscripts and books that were brought to Munich during the secularization of the Bavarian monasteries. Docen discovered, among other things, fragments of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Titurel from the Munich manuscript G in 1810 , which he emphatically appropriated in his so-called Titurel letter to August Wilhelm Schlegel , which later in the same year became the pioneering discovery for German research brought that the older and not - as previously thought - the younger Titurel comes from Wolfram. Between 1806 and 1812 Docen traveled to Augsburg, Ulm and Regensburg to requisition even more stocks for Munich. He became curator in 1811 , soon afterwards adjunct . From 1803 he maintained contact with library visitors such as Ludwig Tieck , Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim and conducted extensive correspondence with the publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta and scholars such as AW Schlegel. In 1827 he was elected a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

As a Germanist, he published numerous smaller texts, wrote many papers on the Middle Ages and, together with Johann Gustav Büsching and Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen, edited two volumes of the journal Museum für Altdeutsche Literatur . With Jacob Grimm he waged a 'feud' over the Minne and Meistersänger , in which von der Hagen and Büsching also mingled. Here Docen turns against Grimm's thesis that minstrelsong are formulas. His aim is to save the immediacy of poetic expression as part of the romantic image of the Middle Ages. In this context, he describes the Minnesingers as "the erotic poets of the 13th century [...] who poured out the most beautiful feelings of their hearts in chants under the open sky; removed from all parlor sitting, they shouldn't care much whether they knew how to read and write. "

Works

  • Miscellanees on the history of German literature (2 volumes, 1806/07)
  • Contributions to the Museum for Old German Literature ("On the difference and mutual relationships between Minne = and Meistersänger. A contribution to the characteristics of the earlier ages of German poetry. Museum, Vol. I, pp. 73–125, pp. 445–490. ), Aretin's Aurora, and Cotta's " Morning Paper for Educated Estates "
  • (Ed.) First letter about the Titurel, containing the fragments of a pre-Eschenbachian adaptation of the Titurel. Edited from a manuscript of the Royal Library in Munich and accompanied by a commentary, Berlin a. Leipzig 1810.
  • Doceniana estate in Bayer. State Library

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SURNAME Docen, Bernhard Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1828
Place of death Munich