Carl Küchler
Carl Gottlob Friedrich Küchler (born January 12, 1869 in Stollberg / Erzgeb. , † May 15, 1945 ibid) was a German Nordic studies researcher and travel writer . His specialty were Iceland and the Faroe Islands .
Life
Carl Gottlob Friedrich Küchler completed his education at the Princely and State School St. Augustin in Grimma . He completed his studies in German and Scandinavian languages in Copenhagen in 1892 with the conference in German language and literature . The dissertation Die Faustsage und der Goethe'sche Faust appeared in German and Danish.
He then worked from 1893 to 1899 as a travel editor at the Baedeker publishing house in Leipzig and edited , among other things, several collections of short stories by Scandinavian authors that he had translated . From 1901 he was a senior teacher in Varel and Rüstringen . Over his five extended trips to Iceland and the Faroe Islands, he published four travel books that were well received by the public , but were rejected by some Icelandic experts, such as the Association of Friends of Iceland .
Awards and honors
- Order of Danebrog
- 1924: Icelandic Falcon Order (Riddarakross)
Works
- Nordic heroic sagas translated from old Icelandic and edited by Carl Küchler, Heinsius, Bremen 1892.
- The Faust legend and Goethe's Faust . Fock, Leipzig 1893 (PhD thesis Copenhagen, Danish edition Faustsagnet og Göthes Faust. AF Hoest, København 1893).
- History of Icelandic Poetry in Modern Times (1800–1900) . Haacke, Leipzig 1896.
- Under the midnight sun through the volcanic and glacier world of Iceland. Abel et al. Müller, Leipzig 1906.
- In lava deserts and magical worlds on Iceland. Schall, Berlin [approx. 1910].
- Desert rides and volcano climbs in Iceland. Altenburg 1909.
- The Færöer. Studies and hiking trips. G. Müller, Munich 1913.
literature
- Bernhard Rost: Carl Küchler, the North Country Researcher - From his life and from his work. Stollberg 1914.
- Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. (et al.) 25.1903, col. 757 (etc.), 34.1912, col. 932 (ff.).
- Complete directory of German-language literature . (GV) 1700-1910, Vol. 82 (1983), pp. 34-35; GV 1911-1965, Vol. 74 (1978), p. 314.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Küchler in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Rößler : Stollberger Heads - Magister Carl Küchler, the Iceland researcher from Stollberg. (PDF; 7.0 kB) Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
- ↑ This is how he saw himself
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Küchler, Carl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Küchler, Carl Gottlob Friedrich (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Nordic researcher and travel writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1869 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stollberg / Erzgeb. |
DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1945 |
Place of death | Stollberg / Erzgeb. |