Edgar Glässer

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Edgar Glässer (born May 5, 1910 in Brno , † December 23, 1968 in Wiesbaden ) was a German Romanist .

Life

Glässer completed his habilitation in 1938 with Emil Winkler in Heidelberg with an introduction to racial linguistic research. Critical-historical investigations (Heidelberg 1939) and held a habilitation lecture entitled “Race, nobility and honor in the works of Alfred de Vigny” ( Neusprachliche Mitteilungen 9, 1938, pp. 441–458). He took part in the Sudeten German Freikorps . In 1944 he was appointed associate professor with no civil service and represented Ernst Gamillscheg's chair in Berlin. At the end of 1944 he was seriously wounded while doing military service. In 1946 he became a professor at the re-established University of Mainz , and in 1955 at the interpreting institute (today: FTSK) Germersheim.

Works

  • On the criticism of teleological fiction in the theory of the primacy of the representational function of language. In: Kant studies , p. 403ff, 1937
  • Form of thinking and community at Jules Romains. A humanities contribution to the Franco-German idea of ​​community, Berlin 1938, Nendeln 1967
  • Dante's Pietas in the commedia's world of values, Halle a. S. 1943
  • (with others) Brockhaus picture dictionary German - Italian, Wiesbaden without year
  • Contributions to the history of interpreting (with Karl Thieme and Alfred Hermann), Munich 1956

literature

  • Werner Krauss : Letters 1922-1976 , ed. by Peter Jehle, Frankfurt am Main 2002, p. 982
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich” . 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 16, 19, 157, 208, 231, 275, 315-317, 360-372, 727, 751

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personal data
SURNAME Glässer, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH 23rd December 1968
Place of death Wiesbaden