Carl von Kraus

Carl von Kraus (born April 20, 1868 in Vienna , † April 9, 1952 in Munich ) was an Austro-German Germanic Medievalist ( Old Germanist ). He was full professor for German Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Carl von Kraus came from a military family . The father and grandfather Felix von Kraus were general staff physicians. Kraus visited the Schottengymnasium in Vienna, before studying German philology at the city's 1885 university began. In 1890 he received his doctorate , in 1894 his habilitation there in the field of older Germanic languages ​​and literature. In 1901 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1902 he was an associate professor at the University of Vienna and in 1904 was appointed to the German University in Prague. In 1911 he took a chair at the University of Bonn, but returned to Vienna from 1913 to 1917 and then accepted a professorship in Munich. He stayed here until his retirement in 1935, but worked as a representative of the professorship in Munich until 1947. Since 1917 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and since 1918 a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

In his teaching activities, Kraus conveyed in particular the areas of phonology, grammar and history of the Germanic languages, handwriting and text criticism, metrics and style. He dealt with the German literature of the 9th to 16th centuries, especially with the texts of the early 12th century. His arrangements of the poems by Heinrich von Morungen (1925) and Walther von der Vogelweide (1926, 1943) and Karl Lachmann's Des Minnesangs Frühling (1948) were published in the Bremen press . For the five-volume Bible edition of the Bremer Presse (1926 to 1928), which was based on the translations by Martin Luther from 1545 and 1546, he took over the text review.

His brother was the chamber singer and Munich university lecturer Felix von Kraus .

literature

• Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1014-1015.
• Hugo Kuhn , Norbert H. Ott:  Kraus, Carl von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 692 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Johannes Janota: Carl von Kraus (1868–1952) . In: Christoph König, Hans-Harald Müller, Werner Röcke (Hrsg.): Scientific history of German studies in portraits . de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-11-080726-2 , p. 141–151 ( fee required De Gruyter Online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl von Kraus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Carl v. Kraus in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 139.
2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Carl von Kraus. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 17, 2015 . 
3. ^ Carl von Kraus obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
4. ^ Hugo Kuhn , Norbert H. Ott:  Kraus, Carl von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 692 f. ( Digitized version ).