German Dante Society
The German Dante Society is the oldest international Dante association. Its aim is to encourage occupation with Dante Alighieri and his era. To this end, it organizes interdisciplinary annual meetings and publishes the German Dante Yearbook , which appeared for the first time in 1867. For the 600th birthday of Dante, the German Dante Society was founded in 1865 by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Karl Witte on September 13th in Dresden . The patronage was King John of Saxony , who had translated Dante's Divine Comedy under the pseudonym Philalethes . After Witte's death, the association's activity was initially suspended and was only revived in 1914 by Hugo Daffner , who relocated the registered association's headquarters to Weimar .
Rainer Stillers is the chairman of the registered and recognized non-profit association , Bernhard König is the honorary chairman . The association is a member of the Working Group of Literary Societies and Memorials e. V. (ALG).
Former presidents
- 1865–1883 Johann Heinrich Friedrich Karl Witte
- 1914–1927 Hugo Daffner
- 1927–1949 Walter Goetz
- 1949–1972 Hans Rheinfelder
- 1972-1993 August Buck
- 1993–2005 Bernhard König
- 2005–2013 Winfried Wehle
- since 2013 Rainer Stillers
literature
- Walter Goetz : History of the German Dante Society and the German Dante research. Böhlau Weimar 1940 ( publications of the Deutsche Dante Society 5, ZDB -ID 846648-8 ).
- August Buck : 125 years of the "German Dante Society". Reflections on their history. In: German Dante Yearbook. 66, 1991, ISSN 0070-444X , pp. 7-24.
- Frank-Rutger Hausmann : The German Dante Society in divided Germany. Hauswedell Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 3-7762-0512-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.dante-gesellschaft.de § 2 Articles of Association of the German Dante Society as amended on October 1, 1983. Accessed March 10, 2018.
- ↑ Dante, an open book. Klassik Stiftung Weimar / Duchess Anna Amalia Library and Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 2015, page 9