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Edmund Schneeweis (born July 31, 1886 in Rostitz (Rozstání) near Mährisch-Trübau ( Moravská Třebová ); † September 6, 1964 in Berlin ) was Professor of Slavic Studies at the Universities of Prague, Rostock, Berlin and Belgrade.

Life

Edmund Schneeweis was the son of a farmer. After 1905 in the Moravian-Trübau passed high school he graduated from 1905 to 1910, a study of Slavic and folklore at the Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague . He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1910 and was then a study assessor in Brno . This was followed by a career as a high school professor in Zwittau and from 1913 in Aussig . Schneewies took part in the First World War as an interpreter from 1915 to 1918 and was promoted to ensign in 1917. After the end of the war, Schneeweis returned to Aussig. From 1920 to 1922 he was a teacher in Karlsbad / West Bohemia.

From 1922 Schneeweis was lecturer for German studies at the University of Belgrade , where he was active as a lecturer for Slavic folklore and antiquity from 1926. His habilitation in Slavic studies at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague, where he worked from 1927 as a lecturer for Slavic studies and in 1933 as an associate professor and in 1940 as a full professor for Slavic folklore and antiquity and became director of the Slavic Institute. Together with Josef Hanika , he led the Institute for Folklore of Bohemia of the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation from August 1942 .

Schneeweis joined the SdP in 1938 . According to Czech sources, he is said to have belonged to the NSDAP later .

After the end of the war, Schneeweis had to leave Prague and then worked as an interpreter and teacher in Glauchau . In 1946 he became professor of Slavic Philology at the University of Rostock and then from 1950 worked at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He retired in 1955 , but continued to teach in Berlin until 1962. In addition, he translated works of Yugoslav literature for the Aufbau-Verlag ( Sijarić's “Women of Hajji” 1957, Andrić's “ Fräulein ” 1958).

He became an inactive member of the SED . He was the author of scientific studies and treatises, and in 1929 he was a corresponding member of the German Society for Sciences and Arts in Prague, the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow , the learned society in Skopje and the Society for Folklore in Vienna . Schneeweis worked for the magazine Slawische Rundschau , from 1930 its general secretary.

Works

• Phonology of loanwords in Czech , 1912.
• On the status of the ethnographic museums in Belgrade and Sofia , 1912
• Festivals and folk customs of the Lausitz Wends , 1931.
• Outline of Popular Beliefs and Customs in Serbo-Croatia , 1936.
• Slavic fairy tales from Czechoslovakia , 1937.
• The German loanwords in Serbo-Croatia from a cultural-historical perspective , 1960.
• Serbo-Croatian Folklore , 1961, a. a. Directory Zeitschrift für Slawistik 3, 1956.

literature

• Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries , Volume III edited by Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg and Helmut Slapnicka on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum, pages 707 and 708, Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2000. ISBN 3-48655973-7
• Wilhelm Zeil: Slavic Studies at the German University , 1994.
• Moravian-Silesian Homeland , 16, 1971, p. 289.
• Journal of Slavic Studies , 12, 1967, 238 f.
• Prager Nachrichten 12, 1961, No. 11 and No. 12, page 20.
• Furrier Scholars Calendar , 1954.
• Who is who , 1955.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Edmund Schneeweis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Edmund Schneeweis in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 551