Conrad Borchling

Memorial plaque for Conrad Borchling in Hitzacker

Conrad Borchling , also: Konrad , completely Conrad August Johann Carl Borchling (born March 20, 1872 in Hitzacker (Elbe) , † November 1, 1946 in Hamburg ) was a German specialist in German . The focus of his research was Low German .

Life

Borchling was the son of a Prussian tax officer. He attended high schools in Leer (Ostfriesland) , Hildesheim and Emden , where he passed his Abitur in 1889. From autumn 1889 to 1896 he studied classical philology and German at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , especially with Moritz Heyne , Gustav Roethe , Edward Schröder and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . In 1891 he became a member of the Alemannia Göttingen fraternity . With the passing of the state examination for the higher teaching post in Prussia in 1896 he received the license to teach Greek, Latin, German and English. In the following year, after an award-winning dissertation, The Younger Titurel and his Relationship with Wolfram von Eschenbach, he became a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1903 he completed his habilitation with studies on the history of the Low German language in East Friesland . He initially worked as a private lecturer for German philology in Göttingen and from 1906 as an associate professor for Germanic linguistics at the Royal Academy in Posen .

From 1910 he was professor for the German language in the general lectures , the predecessor of the University of Hamburg and head of the German language seminar. In 1919 he became a full professor for German linguistics and German literature with special emphasis on Low German and Dutch and first dean of the philosophy faculty at the newly founded University of Hamburg. His students at the time also included the radio pioneers Hans Böttcher and Kurt Stapelfeldt , who were among the founding fathers of Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG) in 1924 .

In 1925 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Borchling was initially a member of the DVP and after its dissolution in 1933 became a member of the NSDAP . Also in 1933 he signed the professors' commitment to A. Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities . His relationship to National Socialism is viewed differently today. On the one hand there was an affinity for Nazi ideology in terms Borchlings national conservative and large Germanic view, on the other hand witnessed him Agathe Lasch 1939, it that for them have used, and his views on the care of the dialects brought him criticism from the Nazi Party and the accusation of particularism one . 1937 emeritus , he occupied the Chair of the Second World War through. In 1942 he became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1945 he was released by the British military government.

Borchling was married to Alida, b. von Melle (* 1885), a daughter of Werner von Melles .

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Borchling was a pioneer in the field of Middle and New Low German philology. In 1917 he founded together with Agathe Lasch the job Hamburgisches dictionary . From 1923 they also collected material for the Concise Middle Low German dictionary founded by Lasch in 1928 . His life's work was composed with the Rostock librarian Bruno Claussen developed Low German Bibliography .

From 1924 to 1939 he was chairman of the Association for Low German Language Research .

Afterlife

estate

Borchling's estate is kept in the Hamburg State Archives .

Conrad Borchling Prize

From 1964 to 1987 the Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded the Conrad Borchling Prize for Low German and Frisian linguistics and literature . The first prize winner was Karl Hyldgaard-Jensen; Other awardees include Bernd-Ulrich Kettner (1970), Reinhard Goltz (1984) and Thomas Steensen (1987). In 1989 the foundation decided to stop awarding the prize.

Borchlingweg

In 1950 the Neulandsweg in Hamburg-Othmarschen was given the name Borchlingweg in memory of Conrad Borchling .

Publications (selection)

• The younger Titurel and his relationship with Wolfram von Eschenbach. Göttingen 1897 (price paper / dissertation; digitized version )
• Middle Low German manuscripts in Northern Germany and the Netherlands. First travel report. In: News from the Royal. Society of Sciences at Göttingen. Philol.-hist. Class, business reports 1898, Göttingen 1899, pp. 79–316. ( Digitized version )
• Middle Low German manuscripts in Scandinavia, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Second travel report. In: In: News from the Royal. Society of Sciences at Göttingen. Philol.-hist. Class, 1900 (booklet), Göttingen 1900 ( digitized version )
• Literary and spiritual life in the Ebstorf monastery at the end of the Middle Ages. Lecture given at the meeting of the Hanseatic History Society Whitsun 1905 in Halberstadt. In: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony. Volume 70, 1905, pp. 361-420 ( online ).
• The age of the Görlitz Jewish oath. In: New Lusatian Magazine . Volume 86, 1910, pp. 245-255.
• The Belgian problem: Oct. 9, 1914. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1914 (German lectures by Hamburg professors; 4)
• The Landrecht des Sachsenspiegel based on the Bremen manuscript from 1342. Hamburg texts and studies on philology I, Ruhfus, Dortmund 1925.
• Legal symbolism in Germanic and Roman law. Leipzig 1926; Reprint: Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1965.
• 1000 years of Low German. Samples of the Low German language and poetry from Heliand to 1900. (Anthology) 2 volumes, Glückstadt near Hamburg 1927–1929.
• (with Rudolf Muuß ) The Frisians. Breslau 1931 (reprint: Reprint-Verlag, Leipzig, Holzminden 2001, ISBN 3-8262-0215-5 )
• Low German spelling theory for the dialects of the northern Lower Saxony area. Hamburg 1935.
• with Bruno Claussen: Low German Bibliography. 3 volumes, Neumünster 1931–1957 ( Borchling / Claussen )

literature

• Erik Rooth: Conrad Borchling in memory. In: Low German messages. Published by the Niederdeutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft zu Lund , Vol. 2, 1946, pp. 21–34.
• Treatises on Low German Philology: Conrad Borchling for memory. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1950 (also published as the yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research. Volume 71/73 (1948/50))
• Ingrid Schröder: Conrad August Johannes Carl (also: Konrad) BORCHLING. In: Biographical Lexicon for East Frisia. Volume IV, Aurich 2007, pp. 50–55 (online)
• Thomas Steensen: Conrad Borchling and the North Frisian Movement . In: Nordfriesisches Jahrbuch 23 (1987), pp. 15-26.

Web links

• Literature by and about Conrad Borchling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Conrad Borchling in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 49.
2. ↑ 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. 45.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Schröder (lit.)
4. ^ Members of the previous academies. Conrad Bochling. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 25, 2015 . 
5. ^ Gerhard Ahrens:  von Melle, Werner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 20 f. ( Digitized version ).
6. ^ Finding aid (PDF file; 26 kB) on the estate, Hamburg State Archive.
7. ↑ Conrad Borchling in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
8. ^ Heinz W. Pohl: The Low German Prizes of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS 1955 to 2000. (Accents for Europe) Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1358-3 .