Felix Niedner

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Felix Niedner (born April 14, 1859 in Halle an der Saale ; † August 19, 1934 in Eberswalde ) was a German teacher and Scandinavian .

After studying German at the University of Berlin and completing his doctorate with Karl Müllenhoff in 1881, he worked from 1883 to 1907 as a high school teacher at the Friedrichs Gymnasium in Berlin.

His life's work is undoubtedly the publication of the 24-volume Thule Collection , which the Eugen Diederichs publishing house in Jena published between 1911 and 1930. For the editing and translation, the editor was able to fall back on recognized contemporary scholars of Old German and Scandinavian Studies , who thus took responsibility for the individual volumes of this book series Old Norse Poetry and Prose , according to Walter Baetke , Felix Genzmer , Paul Herrmann and Andreas Heusler .

In 1929 he became a corresponding member of the Society of Sciences in Göttingen .

Publications (selection)

  • The German tournament in the 12th and 13th centuries (1881) (= dissertation)
  • On the Lieder-Edda (1896)
  • Carl Michael Bellman, the Swedish anacreon (1905)
  • The story of the skald Egil (1911)
  • Iceland's culture during the Viking Age (1913)

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SURNAME Niedner, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Scandinavian
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1934
Place of death Eberswalde