Ernst Beutler

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Grave of Ernst Beutler in the Frankfurt main cemetery

Ernst Beutler (born April 12, 1885 in Reichenbach im Vogtland ; † November 8, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German literary historian and Goethe researcher .

Life

Ernst Beutler attended grammar school in Altenburg and studied from 1904 to 1911 at the universities of Tübingen and Leipzig . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Leipzig . As a librarian at the Hamburg State and University Library from 1912 to 1925, he specialized in the manuscript department. In 1925 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg with research on early humanist comedy. On October 1, 1925, he was appointed director of the Free German Hochstift and head of the Goethe Museum . In 1927 he also accepted a teaching position at the University of Frankfurt , which he lost in 1937 because of his marriage to a Jewish woman.

Beutler was one of the four co-founders of the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt and has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 1930. He was responsible for setting up the Goethe Museum in 1932. In addition, he saved the library, the inventory and several documents of the Goethe House during the Second World War by moving them to a total of 18 locations with a few employees. This enabled the house to be rebuilt in a historically accurate way after it was destroyed by a bomb attack on March 22, 1944.

Beutler became a full professor at the University of Frankfurt in 1946 and published numerous works, including his 24-volume Goethe edition ( Artemis commemorative edition ) from 1948 to 1954. One of his best-known students was Peter Boerner . In 1960, Beutler received the Goethe Prize from the city of Frankfurt for his "extraordinary services to the Goethean spirit". Since 1954 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • From the Greek epigram in the 18th century . Leipzig 1909 (dissertation)
  • Research and texts on early humanist comedy . Hamburg 1927
  • Goethe, Faust and Urfaust. Explained by Ernst Beutler . Leipzig 1939. 2nd expanded edition 1940. 3rd edition 1951. Reprints Wiesbaden 1953, Bremen 1958
  • Essays about Goethe . Leipzig 1941. 2nd extended edition 1943. 5th, revised edition, Bremen 1957. 6th edition 1962. 7th, increased edition, Zurich 1970. Extended Frankfurt edition, Frankfurt 1995
  • Reflection. Address to celebrate Goethe's birthday . Wiesbaden 1946
  • The King in Thule and the Seals of the Lorelay. An essay . Zurich 1947
  • Johann Peter Eckermann, life and work. Introduction to the commemorative edition of Goethe's works . Zurich 1948
  • Ninety Years Free German Hochstift: Review and Outlook. November 10, 1949 . Wiesbaden 1949
  • with Josefine Runmpf: Pictures from the Frankfurt Goethe Museum . Frankfurt 1949
  • Repeated reflections. Three essays on Goethe . Goettingen 1957
  • At the great Hirschgraben. Goethe's father, sister and mother . Zurich / Munich 1981
Editing
  • Gustav Schwab : Legends of Classical Antiquity. 2nd volumes, Leipzig 1909 (exact and unchanged copy of the last edition, with an afterword)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Commemorative edition of the works, letters and conversations . 23 volumes, Zurich 1949ff.
Participation in the editorships of others
  • Hans Wahl and Anton Kippenberg (eds.): Goethe and his world . With the assistance of Ernst Beutler, Inselverlag Leipzig 1932.

literature

  • Benno Reifenberg, Emil Staiger (eds.): World residents and Weimaraner. Ernst Beutler intended . Zurich / Stuttgart 1960 (with picture)
  • Ernst Beutler (1885–1960). Commemorative speeches by Emil Staiger and Eduard Spranger . Zurich / Stuttgart 1962
  • Ernst Rudolf Beutler , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 16/1964 of April 6, 1964, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Association for Vogtland History, Folklore and Regional Studies eV (Ed.): Famous Vogtlanders - Volume II - , SATZART Plauen, 1999

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 19.
  2. ↑ In the foreword Wahl u. a .: Our book is the result of joint contributions from the Goethe National Museum and the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar, like the Kippenberg Collection in Leipzig in particular, with the participation of the Frankfurt Goethe Museum and may ..., but as that first event published jointly by the four largest Goethe collections in Germany. The participation of the Frankfurt Goethe Museum was due in particular to Beutler.

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personal data
SURNAME Beutler, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian and Goethe researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1960
Place of death Frankfurt am Main