Ernst Schwarz (Germanist)

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Ernst Schwarz (born June 19, 1895 in Haida , Austria-Hungary , † April 14, 1983 in Buckenhof near Erlangen ) was a German Germanic medievalist and historian .

The focus of his research was the investigation of the interference between Germans and Slavs in the Sudeten areas from the beginning of settlement activity to the present.

Life

Ernst Schwarz was the son of the glass exporter Franz Schwarz. After attending grammar school in Bohemian Leipa , he enrolled in 1914 for the subjects of German, history and geography at the German University in Prague . The following year he was called up and took part in the Austrian army in the First World War.

After the war he resumed his studies and received his doctorate in 1920. In the same year he passed the state examination for German, history and geography. First he worked as a teacher at the State Teachers' Training Institute in Chomutov .

In 1921 he got a job as a professor at the commercial academy in Gablonz an der Neisse . Having recognized his calling for science, he completed his habilitation in 1923 at the Charles University in Prague for the subject of German philology. In 1930 he became an associate professor and in 1935 a full professor of the Older German Language and Literature at the Charles University in Prague.

After joining the NSDAP , he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague from 1939 to 1941 . During his time in Prague he was a member of the Society for the Promotion of German Science, Art and Literature in Bohemia in Prague, which from 1941 bore the title of German Academy of Sciences in Prague. In several commissions of the academy he acted as chairman, namely in the commissions for field name research , for the Sudeten German dialect dictionary and for old inscriptions of the Sudetenland. In addition, he was a full member of the Historical Commission for Silesia , and from 1939 to 1945 co-editor of the journal for Sudeten German history .

After his expulsion from Czechoslovakia in 1945 he worked as a primary school teacher and teacher in Pirna and as a lecturer at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg .

From 1955 to 1963 he was a full professor for Germanic and German philology at the University of Erlangen . Here he founded the so-called Erlanger school of landscape naming and dialectology . He was also a co-director of the Institute for Franconian State Research, a member of the Herder Research Council, the Commission for Dialect Research and the Commission for Bavarian Regional History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and co-founder of the Collegium Carolinum in Munich. On behalf of the Commission for Bavarian State History, he took over the supervision of the historical place name books .

On January 13, 1964, he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit , and in 1970 he was awarded the Georg Dehio Prize for cultural and intellectual history .

Works (selection)

Monographs and Editing

  • The place names of eastern Upper Austria (dissertation 1920)
  • Our dialect . Reichenberg n.d. (around 1927)
  • The place names of the Sudetenland as a historical source . 1st edition 1931, 2nd edition Munich 1961
  • Sudeten German language areas . 1st edition 1935, 2nd edition Munich 1962
  • Sudetendeutsches Flurnamenbuch , ed. I. A. the Commission f. Sudeten German field name research by Ernst Schwarz. Volumes 1 (1935) - 4 (1941), Reichenberg.
  • The folk-historical foundations of the Iglauer Volksinsel . Prague 1943
  • German name research . 2 volumes, volume 1: first names and surnames, volume 2: place and field names, Göttingen 1949/1950
  • German dialect research . 2 volumes, Göttingen 1950/51
  • German and Germanic Philology . Heidelberg 1951
  • Goths , North Germans, Anglo-Saxons . Studies on the outsourcing of German languages. Bern, Munich 1951
  • Sudeten German dictionary , dictionary of German dialects in Bohemia and Moravian-Silesia. (in deliveries); welcomed by Ernst Schwarz, looked after by Franz J, Beranek; ed. on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) by Heinz Engels; Oldenbourg Verlag Munich
  • The origin of the Alemanni . Basic questions of Alemannic history . Mainau lectures 1952, Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen. A lecture, given on June 13, 1953 at the conference of the Institute for Landscape Science of the Lake Constance area in Schloss Zeil, expanded by addressing questions raised in discussions, pp. 37 to 51, ISBN 3-7995-6601-5
  • Germanic tribal studies , 5th row: Handbooks and general presentation of literary and cultural history. Heidelberg 1956, reprint 2010: ISBN 978-3-938586-10-5
  • Sudeten German family names from the pre-Hussite period . 1957
  • The origins of the Transylvanian and Spiš Saxons, East Central Germans, Rhinelander in the mirror of the dialects . Munich 1957
  • Sudeten German word atlas . 3 volumes. Munich 1954–1958
  • Atlas on the history of the German East Settlement . Bielefeld, Hanover, Berlin 1958
  • Language and settlement in northeast Bavaria . (Erlangen contributions to linguistics and art studies 4). Nuremberg 1960
  • Ethnicity history of the Sudetenland. 4 volumes, Volume 1: Bohemia, Volume 2: Moravia-Silesia. 1961-1965
  • Ethnicity history of the Sudetenland . 2 volumes, 1965/66
  • Germanic tribal lore between the sciences . Edited by Constance working group for medieval history. Constance 1967
  • Brief German word history. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1967, 2nd edition 1982
  • The Plowman from Bohemia by John of Tepl and his time , ed. by Ernst Schwarz. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1968
  • On Germanic tribal studies: Essays on the new state of research , ed. by Ernst Schwarz. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1972
  • Sudeten German family names of the 15th and 16th centuries . Munich 1973
  • Problems of name research in the German-speaking area . 1977

Magazine articles

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 558.
  2. ^ Fifty Years of the Historical Commission for Silesia . In: Yearbook of the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau, Volume 17, 1972, list of members p. 415.
personal data
SURNAME Black, serious
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Haida, Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1983
Place of death Buckenhof