Berthold Litzmann

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Berthold Litzmann

Berthold Litzmann (born April 18, 1857 in Kiel , † October 14, 1926 in Munich ) was a German German scholar and literary historian . He played a major role in establishing recent German literary history as an independent discipline.

Berthold Litzmann was the son of the gynecologist Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann and attended the Kiel School of Academics from 1865 to 1875 . From 1875 he studied law in Bonn , Kiel and Leipzig . From 1875 he was a member of the Corps Teutonia Bonn . In 1877 he switched to German studies and became a student of Wilhelm Scherer in Berlin . In 1879 he received his doctorate in Tübingen with the thesis On text criticism and biography of Johann Christian Günther’s . He completed his habilitation in Kiel with a thesis on Christian Ludwig Liscow . In 1883/1884 he was a private lecturer in Kiel.

In Jena Litzmann initially received a teaching position and was from 1886 to 1892 associate professor of modern German literary history. From 1892 until his retirement in 1921 he taught literary history at the University of Bonn, initially as an associate professor and from 1897 as a full professor. From 1902 to 1908 he wrote a three-volume biography about Clara Schumann , which he knew from his childhood. He was friends with Ernst von Wildenbruch , whose complete works he published from 1911 to 1924. In 1906 he founded the "Literary History Society Bonn".

Initially active in the National Liberal Party , Litzmann was a leading member of the German Fatherland Party from 1917 and joined the German National People's Party in 1919 . In 1919 he advocated Thomas Mann's honorary doctorate at the University of Bonn. After his retirement, Litzmann went to Munich, where he had friendly contact with Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann also delivered the eulogy for him. A street in Munich is named after Litzmann.

Fonts (selection)

  • Friedrich Ludwig Schröder. A contribution to the history of German literature and theater. 2 parts. Voss, Hamburg / Leipzig 1890–1894.
  • The German drama in the literary movements of the present. Lectures given at the University of Bonn. 4th edition. Voss, Leipzig 1897 ( digitized ).
  • Goethe's Faust. An introduction. Fleischel, Berlin 1904 ( archive.org ).
  • The tragic in Gerhart Hauptmann's dramas (= communications from the Literarhistorische Gesellschaft Bonn. Vol. 3 No. 6, 1908). Ruhfus, Dortmund 1908.
  • Clara Schumann. An artist's life. According to diaries and letters. 3 volumes. 7th edition. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1920.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Berthold Litzmann  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 15/293.
  2. ^ Berthold Litzmann: Christian Ludwig Liscow in his literary career. Hamburg 1883.
personal data
SURNAME Litzmann, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1926
Place of death Munich