Eduard Hartl

Eduard Hartl (born August 8, 1892 in Vienna , † January 4, 1953 in Unterwössen / Upper Bavaria) was a German old Germanist.

Life

Hartl studied German and Romance languages from 1908 to 1912 at the university in his hometown of Vienna. His teachers included Robert Franz Arnold , Walther Brecht (1876–1950), Alexander von Weilen and especially Carl von Kraus (1868–1952), who had also suggested Hartl's doctoral thesis, but was then appointed to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1917 . Joseph Seemüller (1855–1919) was the first reviewer of Hartl's unprinted dissertation, which was accepted in 1918 and which is considered lost, but whose title appears to be a preliminary study for his habilitation thesis . Hartl completed his habilitation in Munich in 1925 with the text The text history of Wolframschen Parzival, Part I: The Younger G-Manuscripts, Department 1: The Viennese Mixed Manuscript Group W (printed: Berlin 1928), which was now supervised by Carl von Kraus.

From 1921 to 1925 Hartl taught in Hamburg as a teacher at the Groneschen Handels- und Sprachschule. He then became an assistant and private lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, from 1931 a non-official associate professor and from 1940 an extraordinary professor of German philology. Hartl failed to take the leap to a full professorship before 1945, which can also be explained by his ambivalent relationship to National Socialism . Although Hartl's political and social stance had been “determining national-ethnic ideas and values since his student days”, there was still “no adoption of a decidedly National Socialist self-image”. As a result, negative reports from Nazi officials (such as the then Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Munich Walther Wüst ) hindered his progress several times.

Hartl gained academic recognition primarily as the editor of medieval sacred dramas and the editor of the 6th edition of the works of Wolfram von Eschenbach . However, Hartl was unable to realize an announced fundamental new edition of Wolfram's poetry - presumably also due to losses caused by the war. Despite his rather modest scientific oeuvre, Hartl, after he had already received a call to Innsbruck in 1947, was surprisingly appointed to the Munich University to succeed the old Germanist Erich Gierach, who died in 1943, as professor of German philology. In 1950 he was one of the organizers of the first Germanist day in the post-war period.

literature

Stefan Hemler: Between rapprochement and distancing. The path of the German nationalist Germanist Eduard Hartl through the Nazi era . In: Euphorion . Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte 96 (2002), no. 2, pp. 205–250. ISSN 0014-2328 .

Web links

Literature by and about Eduard Hartl in the catalog of the German National Library
Essays by Eduard Hartl in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

↑ Stefan Hemler: Eduard Hartl. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 .
↑ Stefan Hemler: A “downright spooky” plan? Eduard Hartl's Wolfram project in the light of the Munich estate . In: Literary Studies and Linguistics (LiLi) 31, No. 121, 2001, pp. 125-131. ISSN 0049-8653 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hartl, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German old Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	4th January 1953
Place of death	Unterwössen / Upper Bavaria

[1] Stefan Hemler: Eduard Hartl. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 .

[2] Stefan Hemler: A “downright spooky” plan? Eduard Hartl's Wolfram project in the light of the Munich estate . In: Literary Studies and Linguistics (LiLi) 31, No. 121, 2001, pp. 125-131. ISSN 0049-8653 .