Carl Küchler

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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

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

Wikisource: Carl Küchler  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Rößler : Stollberger Heads - Magister Carl Küchler, the Iceland researcher from Stollberg. (PDF; 7.0 kB) Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ This is how he saw himself
personal data
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.