Edward Castle
Eduard Castle (born November 7, 1875 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † June 8, 1959 there ) was an Austrian German philologist, literary historian and theater scholar.
Life
Eduard Castle studied German with Jakob Minor and Richard Heinzel , history with Max Büdinger and geography with Albrecht Penck at the University of Vienna . In 1897 he graduated as Dr. phil. and then worked at secondary schools in Vienna and Gorizia .
1907 habilitation Castle for modern German language and literature at the University of Vienna . In 1915 he became a full professor there, and in 1913 he also received the venia legendi in the form of an extraordinary professorship ad personam at the Vienna University of Technology . His basic Austrian attitude brought him scientifically into contradiction to representatives of Pan-German literature, so that he was only slowly able to assert himself with his doctrines. In 1929 Castle also took on a teaching position at the Vienna Consular Academy .
Castle devoted his life to research and teaching, published numerous scientific works, including among others Joseph Schreyvogel , Ferdinand Raimund , Adalbert Stifter , Richard Kralik , Peter Rosegger , Anton Wildgans and Franz Werfel , but also with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich Schiller and Gerhart Hauptmann employed. He edited the works of Nikolaus Lenau (six volumes, 1910-1923), Ferdinand Raimund (six volumes, 1924), Ludwig Anzengruber (20 volumes, 1922) and Franz Grillparzer (six volumes, 1923).
From the annexation of Austria in 1938 to the end of Nazi rule in 1945, Castle was dismissed from service by the rulers and condemned to silence.
After the Second World War, Castle played a key role in the resumption of studies at the University of Vienna and achieved amazing results in teaching. For example, he worked on the German-Austrian literary history started in 1899 by JW Nagl and J. Zeidler (Volume 3: 1935, Volume 4: 1937). He was also the editor of Austrian classics, employee in mostly leading positions in the Vienna Goethe Association , the Grillparzer Society , the Adalbert Stifter Society and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
Castle was retired in 1949.
Awards
- 1950 Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
- 1953 Prize of the City of Vienna for the humanities
Publications
- as an author
- The isolated , Vienna 1899
- Nikolaus Lenau , 1902
- Lenau and the Löwenthal family. Letters and conversations, poems and drafts , Leipzig: Max Hesse 1906
- Prince Schwarzenberg , 1925
- The great stranger. The life of Charles Sealsfield , Vienna 1943
- Poet and poetry from Austria , 1952
- as editor
- Ludwig Anzengruber : Collected works . (20 vols.).
- Franz Grillparzer : Works . (6 vols.).
- Anastasius Grün : Collected Work . (6 vols.).
- Nikolaus Lenau : work edition . (6 vols.).
- (with Fritz Brukner ) Ferdinand Raimund : Works . (6 vols.).
- Chronicle of the Vienna Goethe Association . 1933 ff.
- Notes and registers on Eckermann's conversations with Goethe. 1916.
literature
- Matthias Bauer: Eduard Castle as an academic teacher . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1982.
- Herwig Würtz (ed.): Eduard Castle. His contribution to research into Austrian literature . Vienna 1995 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name).
- Eduard Castle in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Castle in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Castle, Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian literary historian and theater scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1959 |
| Place of death | Vienna |