Dieter Schaller

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Dieter Schaller (born June 19, 1929 in Karlsruhe , † July 11, 2003 in Oedekoven , municipality of Alfter ) was a German Medievalist and Middle Latin philologist.

Life

Dieter Schaller studied German , English , Classical and Middle Latin philology at the University of Heidelberg from the winter semester 1947/48 (with Viktor Pöschl and Walther Bulst among others ), interrupted from the summer semester 1950 at the University of Marburg , where Hellfried Dahlmann was one of his teachers . After graduating in 1952 and subsequent clerkship, he worked as a teacher assessor before 1956 with a thesis on the poetry Theodulf of Orléans doctorate was.

From 1957, Schaller was a research assistant with Walther Bulst at the seminar for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages in Heidelberg. In July 1965 he completed his habilitation with investigations into the history of forms of early Middle Latin poetry at the University of Bonn , where in October 1965 he took over the management of the newly founded Middle Latin seminar, initially as an extraordinary professor and from 1967 as a full professor , which he took over until 1997 after his retirement in 1994 temporarily held. In 1997 the Middle Latin Seminary was dissolved.

research

Schaller's scientific research was primarily devoted to pre- and early Carolingian Middle Latin poetry as well as various aspects of the history of forms and genres of Middle Latin literature. In addition to his work on Theodulf von Orléans, these include studies of early medieval metrics and rhythm, the genre of the epic in the Latin Middle Ages, Latin animal poetry, lecture and circular poetry at the court of Charlemagne , the Carmina Burana and the vocabulary of high medieval erotic texts; his planned annotated new edition of the Carmina Burana remained unfinished.

His work on the so-called Aachen Karlsepos attained outstanding importance for medieval history , the widely received findings of which , according to Rudolf Schieffer , serve as a "prime example" of the necessary close interlinking between historical source criticism and philological scholarship.

A standard work Schaller applies alphabetically by incipits structured bibliographic repertory of Latin poetry of antiquity and the early Middle Ages to the year 1000, which he shared with his student Ewald Könsgen developed.

Fonts (selection)

A complete list of publications can be found at:

  • Thomas Klein: Dieter Schaller. Bibliography 1956-2003. In: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, Volume 38, 2003, pp. 337–343.

Monographs

  • (with Ewald Könsgen): Initia carminum Latinorum saeculo undecimo antiquiorum. Bibliographical repertory for Latin poetry from antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977. ( digitized )
  • (with Ewald Könsgen): Initia carminum Latinorum saeculo undecimo antiquiorum. Bibliographical repertory for Latin poetry from antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Supplementary volume, continued by Thomas Klein. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-25614-0 .

Essays

  • Philological research on the poems of Theodulf von Orléans. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages , Volume 18, 1962, pp. 13–91. ( online )
  • Generic and form types in the Carmina Burana amatoria. In: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, Volume 36, 2001, pp. 77-93.
  • (posthumous) fate of Asclepiadeus in the transition to the Middle Ages. In: Andreas Bihrer (Ed.): Nova de Veteribus. Middle and New Latin Studies for Paul Gerhard Schmidt. Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-73015-2 , pp. 32-44.

[Collected essays with addenda]

  • Studies on Latin poetry of the early Middle Ages. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1995 (Sources and Studies on Latin Philology of the Middle Ages, Volume 11), ISBN 3-7772-9516-7 .
  • Postponed writings on the Latin philology of the Middle Ages. Edited and supplemented by Thomas Klein. Kümmerle, Göppingen 2012 (Göppingen work on German studies, Volume 770), ISBN 978-3-86758-025-0 .

literature

  • In memoriam Dieter Schaller. Speeches held at the academic commemoration on October 22, 2004 in the ballroom of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Bouvier, Bonn 2006 (Alma Mater. Contributions to the history of the University of Bonn, issue 95), ISBN 3-416-030206 .
  • Walter Berschin : In memoriam Dieter Schaller. In: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, Volume 38.2, 2003, p. 335 f.
  • Reinhard Düchting : Dieter Schaller. In: Gnomon , Volume 77, 2005, p. 572 f.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cf. Dieter Schaller: The Aachen epic for Karl the Kaiser. In: Frühmittelalterliche Studien , Volume 10, 1976, pp. 134-168; ders .: Problems of interpretation in the Aachen Karlsepos. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter , Volume 41, 1979, pp. 160-179. Both with addenda also in: Ders .: Studies on Latin poetry of the early Middle Ages. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1995 (Sources and Studies on Latin Philology of the Middle Ages, Volume 11), ISBN 3-7772-9516-7 , pp. 129-183.
  2. ↑ See Rudolf Schieffer : Dieter Schaller in Bonn. In: In memoriam Dieter Schaller. Speeches held at the academic commemoration on October 22, 2004 in the ballroom of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Bouvier, Bonn 2006 (Alma Mater. Contributions to the history of the University of Bonn, issue 95), ISBN 3-416-030206 , pp. 26–32, here pp. 28 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schaller, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Middle Latin
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2003
Place of death Oedekoven , municipality of Alfter