Bernhard Kahle

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Bernhard Kahle as a student (1882)
Bernhard Kahle (around 1900)

Bernhard Hermann Kahle (born August 25, 1861 in Berlin ; † December 9, 1910 in Heidelberg ) was a German studies scholar and Scandinavian .

Life

Bernhard Kahles tour group in Iceland 1897

Bernhard Kahle was born in Berlin as the son of District Court Councilor Konrad Kahle and his wife Rosalie, née von Vormann. After school and high school he began studying German in Berlin in 1881 . In the summer semester of 1882, Kahle moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg , where he joined the Leonensia student union . In 1886 Kahle received his doctorate in Heidelberg. In 1892 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg, followed by a private lectureship . After a long, philologically motivated study trip to Denmark and Iceland in 1897 , he was appointed associate professor by the University of Heidelberg in 1898 .

Kahle was an important mediator in the early phase of the emancipation and consolidation of Scandinavian studies as a specialist discipline. His Altisländisches Elementarbuch (1900) is still considered a standard work that has had several editions. Among other things, he wrote a book about Henrik Ibsen , Björnsterne Björnson and their contemporaries (1908) and did research on Skaldik .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Old Norse language in the service of Christianity. Part I: The prose. In: Acta Germanica. I No. 4, 1890, pp. 305-425.
  • The language of the skalds based on the inner and end rhymes: connected with a rimarium. Karl J. Trübner, Strasbourg 1892.
  • Icelandic spiritual poetry of the late Middle Ages. C. Winter, Heidelberg 1898.
  • Old Icelandic elementary book. C. Winter, Heidelberg 1900; 2nd edition edited by Andreas Heusler, Heidelberg 1913; Reprint of the original from 1900 by Aischines Verlag, Hugendubel Munich 2015.
  • A summer in Iceland: With numerous illustrations and Maps of Iceland. Bodenburg, 1900.
  • Christianity in Old West Norse Poetry. 1901.
  • Over piles of stones, especially in Iceland. In: Journal of Folklore. XII (1902), p. 89.
  • Old West Norse name studies. Karl J. Trübner, Strasbourg 1903.
  • Kristnisaga: þáttr Þorvalds en Vidförla, þáttr Ísleifs biskups Gizurarsonar , ed. by Bernhard Kahle, Hungrvaka No. 11, Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1905.
  • Henrik Ibsen, Björnstjerne Björnson and their contemporaries. Volume 193. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1908.
  • The motif of the found sister in old Icelandic. In: Contributions to the history of the German language and literature. Volume 34, 1909, pp. 420-423.
  • The old-west Norse surnames until around 1400 . In: Axel Kock, et al. (Ed.): Arkiv för nordisk filologi (ANF) . New episode, volume 22 (= band 26 of the complete edition). CWK Gleerups förlag, Lund 1910, p. 142–202 (multilingual, issue 1–2).
  • Sheets of memory collected from the Leonensia pub newspapers 1871-1886. A ceremony for the 17th Leonensia Foundation Festival: a reminder of the 1886 anniversary, Greiz, Heidelberg 1888.

literature

  • Baden biography VI. Part 1901-1910. Heidelberg 1935, pp. 691-692.
  • Kahle, Bernhard. In: Arnim. 1, 1944, p. 625.
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-540-15856-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kahle, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kahle, Bernhard Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in German and Scandinavian
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1910
Place of death Heidelberg