Eduard from Jan
Eduard Constantin Feodor Albert Adolf Joseph von Jan (sometimes also Eduard Feodor Konstantin Albert Adolf Josef Maria Stanislaus von Jan) (born November 13, 1885 in Strasbourg , † January 1, 1971 in Jena ) was a German Romanist and Provençalist .
life and work
He was the son of the private Catholic scholar and writer Hermann-Ludwig von Jan (1851-1908) and his Catholic first wife Maria Catharine Alberta Wilhelmine Feodora von Jan, born von Ziegler and Klipphausen (1854-1894).
Jan received his doctorate from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg in 1921. med. dent., then in 1922 as Dr. phil. with Arthur Franz with Masonic poetry in French literature of the 18th century . He completed his habilitation in 1927 there on The literary image of Jeanne d'Arc 1429-1926 (Halle as 1928).
From 1929 to 1932 he was full professor of Romance philology at the University of Greifswald , from 1932 to 1946 at the University of Leipzig and from 1946 at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 1957 he was retired .
In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .
Jan married Maria Boltz (* 1885 in Mühlhausen) on October 5, 1909 in Mulhouse (Alsace). The couple had two sons, Hermann (* 1913) and Adolf (* 1915).
Works (selection)
- The literary picture of Jeanne d'Arc (1429-1926) , Niemeyer: Halle (Saale) 1928.
- The landscape of French people, depicted in French literature from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century , Böhlau: Weimar 1935.
- Basics of French literary history , Quelle & Meyer: Leipzig 1937, 6th edition Quelle & Meyer: Heidelberg 1967.
- Neuprovenzalische Literaturgeschichte 1850-1950 , Quelle & Meyer: Heidelberg 1959, 6th edition, ibid. 1967.
literature
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser , part B 1933, page 261, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1933
- Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”. 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 2008
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard von Jan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Eduard von Jan in the state bibliography MV
- Biography with picture
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth certificate 3295/1885 Mairie Strasbourg
- ↑ Petra Boden, Rainer Rosenberg: Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft 1945-1965 , page 382, 1997 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jan, Eduard von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jan, Eduard Feodor von; Jan, Eduard Feodor Konstantin Albert Adolf Josef Maria Stanislaus von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist and Provençalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st January 1971 |
| Place of death | Jena |