Emil Friedrich Julius Summer

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Emil Friedrich Julius Sommer (born May 5, 1819 in Opole ; † July 22, 1846 in Halle ) was a German philologist and is considered the founder of German studies in Halle and a collector of numerous folk traditions.

Life

Sommer received his doctorate in Halle in 1842 with the dissertation De carmine Germaniae saeculi XIII diu guote frouwe inscriptio . Then he went to the University of Berlin , where he became a student of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm , who inspired him to collect legends. In 1844 he became a private lecturer at the University of Halle (Habilitation De Theophili cum diabolo foedere ). In 1846 he published his collection of sagas from Saxony and Thuringia. He was collecting legends in the area of ​​the Kyffhäuser ( Kelbra ) when he fell ill with tuberculosis ( hemorrhage ) and died a little later in Halle at the age of only 27.

In addition to legends, he dealt among other things with the Fauststoff and the Middle High German poem Flor and Blancheflor by Konrad Fleck (he published them in 1846).

German studies at the University of Halle only experienced an upswing again with Julius Zacher , the founder of the Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie (1868).

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literature

  • Uwe Meves: Emil Friedrich Julius Sommer (1819-1846) - "the first 'real' Halle Germanist". In: Humans would be appreciated by knowledge. Festschrift for Manfred Lemmer. Edited by Ingrid Kühn u. Gotthard Lerchner, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1993, pp. 349-390.

Web links

Wikisource: Emil Friedrich Julius Sommer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the legend of the Devil's Pact by Roswitha von Gandersheim
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Emil Friedrich Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and collector of sagas
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Opole
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1846
Place of death Hall