Dietrich Kralik

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Dietrich Kralik (until 1919 Dietrich Ritter Kralik von Meyrswalden ; born August 15, 1884 in Vienna , † December 27, 1959 ibid) was an Austrian Germanic Medievalist from the Kralik von Meyrswalden family .

life and work

Kralik was professor at the University of Würzburg (1923–1924) and the University of Vienna (1924–1957), Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna (1934/35), since 1925 corresponding and since 1935 actual member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , director of the dictionary commission there and from 1941 to 1945 secretary of the philosophical-historical class.

Kralik belonged to the anti-Semitic professor network “Bärenhöhle” at the University of Vienna and became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party on May 1, 1938 (No. 6.106.526). He was also head of the local branch of the Reich Colonial Association and a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare .

After the liberation from National Socialism, he was removed from office by the University of Vienna - as it was “clearly illegal” - but he was rehabilitated in 1949 and reappointed a full professor. As director of the German Institute, he retired in 1955 while being appointed honorary professor.

His late research interests were the Walter Reinmar feud and the Nibelungenlied ; “In methodological terms, they were in the tradition of a German studies focused on strict text criticism and interpretation studies, which dealt with source criticism and questions of influence.” He was buried at Döblinger Friedhof .

Dietrich Kralik is the son of Richard Kralik and the brother of Heinrich Kralik .

For the peculiarities of name spelling in Austria, reference is made to the contribution Austrian nobility .

Works

  • as editor with Fritz Lemmermayer : New Hebbel documents. Schuster & Löffler, Berlin et al. 1913.
  • The German components of the Lex Baiuvariorum. In: New archive of the Society for Older German History . Vol. 38, 1913, pp. 13-55 , 401-449 , 581-624 .
  • German hero poetry. In: Otto Brunner , Alfons Dopsch , Hans Eibl: The Middle Ages in individual representations (= science and culture. Vol. 3, ZDB -ID 977509-2 ). F. Deuticke, Leipzig et al. 1930, pp. 168-193.
  • The tradition and origin of the Thidrekssaga (= Rhenish contributions and auxiliary books on Germanic philology and folklore. Vol. 19, ZDB -ID 539421-1 ). Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1931.
  • The Sigfrid trilogy in the Nibelungenlied and in the Thidrek saga. Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1941.
  • The Nibelungenlied, 1941
  • Passau in the Nibelungenlied. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Indicator of the philosophical-historical class. Vol. 87, No. 20, 1950, ISSN  0257-4470 , pp. 451-470.
  • The elegy of Walther von der Vogelweide (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Meeting reports. Vol. 228, Abh. 1, ISSN  0029-8832 ). Rohrer on commission, Vienna 1952.
  • Who was the poet of the Nibelungenlied? Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1954.
  • Walther against Reinmar (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Meeting reports. Vol. 230, Abh. 1). Rohrer on commission, Vienna 1955.
  • The Danish ballad of Grimhild's Vengeance and the prehistory of the Nibelungenlied (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Meeting reports. Vol. 241, Abh. 1). Issued from the estate. Böhlau in commission, Graz et al. 1962.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Taschwer: A secret thing about the bear cave. How an anti-Semitic professor cartel from the University of Vienna expelled Jewish and left-wing researchers after 1918. In: Regina Fritz, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Jana Starek (ed.): Alma mater antisemitica: Academic milieu, Jews and anti-Semitism at the universities of Europe between 1918 and 1939, Volume 3, new academic press, Vienna 2016, p. 221– 242, here p. 230
  2. ↑ Roman Pfefferle, Hans Pfefferle: Glowly denazified. The professorships at the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years , V&R unipress, Vienna 2014, p. 295
  3. ↑ Wendeling Schmidt-Dengler: German Studies in Vienna 1945 to 1960. In: Margarethe Grandner, Gernot Heiss, Oliver Rathkolb (eds.): Future with contaminated sites cross-section 19. Studienverlag. Vienna u. a. 2005
  4. ^ Grave site Dietrich Kralik , Vienna, Döblinger Friedhof, Group 27, Row 3, No. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Kralik, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kralik von Meyrswalden, Dietrich Ritter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian old Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1959
Place of death Vienna