Eduard Berend

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Eduard Berend (born December 5, 1883 in Hanover ; died September 23, 1973 in Marbach am Neckar ) was a German literary scholar.

Life

His father, Emil Berend (1846–1920) was a lawyer and notary in Hanover, later a privy councilor, his mother Mathilde was née Jacobsen. His sister Anna was a victim of the Holocaust , as was his brother Franz. His brother Fritz Berend became a musician and was able to escape to England from the persecution of Jews in Germany and Italy.

Eduard Berend attended the Lyceum in Hanover and initially studied chemistry, physics and electrical engineering at the TU Hanover and in Munich, from 1903 German philology in Munich and Berlin and completed his studies in 1907 with a doctorate. The topic of the dissertation was: Jean Paul's Aesthetics . After that he was a private scholar in Munich. In the years 1910–1914 he worked with Julius Petersen on the plan for a historical-critical edition of the works of Jean Paul , which was accepted by the Prussian Academy of Sciences , but could not be realized because of the outbreak of the First World War . Berend took part in the war as a volunteer and was a lieutenant and company commander at the end of the war. After the war he edited the edition of Jean Paul's letters published by Georg Müller . From 1927 to 1938 he was commissioned by the Prussian Academy of Sciences in a work contract with the publication of the historical-critical edition of the works of Jean Paul. As a Jew, Berend was able to be saved from dismissal for a while through the combatant privilege and Julius Petersen's support. From 1935 to 1938, at the Prussian Academy of Sciences, he worked on Heinrich Seidel's bibliography for the revision of Goedekes' outline on the history of German poetry . 1938, however, he was sent to the November pogroms in the detention camp Sachsenhausen spent and discharged from there with instructions to emigrate immediately from Germany. With the help of Heinrich Meyer , he managed to travel to Geneva, where he waited for an opportunity to leave for the USA, which did not arise until the end of the war. In 1946/47 he was asked by the German Academy of Sciences to take over the editing of the other volumes of the historical-critical Jean Paul edition. In 1957 he received an invitation from the German Schiller Society through Bernhard Zeller , which enabled him to return to Germany. From then on he lived in Marbach am Neckar .

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Honors

  • 1955 Gold Jean Paul Medal from the Jean Paul Society
  • 1957 Awarded the title of "Professor" from the State of Baden-Württemberg
  • Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1963 Awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. Hc) from the Free University of Berlin
  • Golden Ring of Honor of the City of Bayreuth

Works

  • Jean Paul's relationship to the literary parties of his time . Duncker, Berlin 1908
  • Jean Paul's aesthetic . Duncker, Berlin 1909 (Research on the Modern History of Literature 35) Reprint: Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1978
  • Jean Paul Bibliography . Altmann, Berlin 1925. Revised and supplemented by Johannes Krogoll. Klett, Stuttgart 1963. (Publications of the German Schiller Society 26)
  • Prolegomena for the historical-critical complete edition of Jean Paul's works . Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1927. (Treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class; 1927.1)
  • Jean Paul and Switzerland . Huber, Frauenfeld 1943. ( Switzerland in German intellectual life 89).
  • Jean Paul's handwritten estate . In: Ewald Lissberger (ed.): In libro humanitas. Festschrift for Wilhelm Hoffmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday, April 21, 1961 , Stuttgart: Klett 1962, pp. 336–346.
  • Excursions . Essays by Eduard Berend. Selected for his 85th birthday on December 5, 1968. Schiller National Museum, Marbach am Neckar 1968 (Marbacher Schriften 1)

Correspondence

  • Eduard Berend and Heinrich Meyer, correspondence 1938–1972 . Edited by Meike G. Werner. Wallstein, Göttingen 2013. ( Marbacher Schriften , NF 10) ISBN 978-3-8353-1222-7

Editing

  • Tieck's works . Selection in six parts, ed. with an introduction and notes by Eduard Berend. Bong, Berlin 1908
  • Jean Paul's works . Selection in eight parts, re-edited on the basis of Hempel's edition, with an introduction and notes by Karl Freye in conjunction with Eduard Berend. Bong, Berlin 1910
  • Treatises on German literary history . Franz Muncker presented on his 60th birthday by members of the Association of Munich Germanists. Beck, Munich 1916
  • Goethe, Kestner and Lotte . Correspondence and Utterances. Edited and introduced by Eduard Berend. Steinicke & Lehmkuhl, Munich 1914
  • Jean Paul's letters . Edited and explained by Eduard Berend. Georg Müller, Munich 1922. 3 volumes.
  • Jean Paul's works . (Introductions and "Jean Paul's life and character" by the publisher). 5 volumes in thin print. Berlin, Propylaea, (1923).
  • Theodor Storm: Selected short stories . Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1925
  • Jean Paul's Complete Works . Edited by the Prussian Academy of Sciences in conjunction with the Academy for Scientific Research and Maintenance of Germanness (German Academy) and the Jean Paul Society. Böhlau, Weimar 1927-
  • Jean Paul's personality in reports from contemporaries . Collected and edited by Eduard Berend. Böhlau, Weimar 1956. (Jean Paul's Complete Works Supplementary Volume)

literature

  • Hanne Knickmann: The Jean Paul Researcher Eduard Berend (1883–1973). A contribution to the history of German studies in the first half of the 20th century. Part 1. In: Yearbook of the Jean Paul Society 29, 1994, pp. 7–91. Part 2. In: Yearbook of the Jean Paul Society 30, 1995, pp. 7-104.
  • Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 140-142.
  • Seiffert, Hans Werner (Ed.): Festgabe for Eduard Berend on his 75th birthday on December 5, 1958 . Böhlau, Weimar 1959.
  • Berend, Eduard. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 2: Bend Bins. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-22682-9 , pp. 124-136.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Volume 1: A-G. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 140-142.
  2. ↑ Hanne Knickmann: The Jean Paul Researcher Eduard Berend II. In: Jean Paul Yearbook 30 (1995), Mühl'scher Universitätsverlag Bayreuth, Bayreuth 1995, p. 42
  3. ^ The Correspondence between Eduard Berend and Heinrich Meyer . From: vanderbilt.edu, accessed June 25, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Berend, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 1973
Place of death Marbach am Neckar