Ferdinand Josef Schneider

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Ferdinand Josef Schneider (born December 6, 1879 in Mariaschein , Bohemia , † November 4, 1954 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German literary historian and professor.

Life

After attending grammar school in Teplitz-Schönau , he began studying German and related subjects at the German University in Prague in 1898 . In 1903 he received his doctorate and in 1907 he completed his habilitation and became a lecturer.

Ferdinand Josef Schneider was awarded the title of Associate Professor at the German University of Prague in 1914. However, he was called up for military service a little later. After the end of the war, he was appointed real associate professor in Prague in 1920. However, he left the young Czechoslovakia and in 1921 accepted the call to the Martin Luther University Halle (Saale) to the professorship for literary studies. Schneider held the office of dean of the Philosophical Faculty in 1933/34. In 1949 he was accepted as a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . In 1953 he retired and died the following year.

In his research, Schneider primarily endeavored to study the intellectual currents from the 18th to the 20th century.

Works

  • Jean Paul's youth and first appearance in literature . 1905
  • Freemasonry and its influence on German intellectual life at the end of the 18th century . 1909
  • Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel in the years from 1741 to 1781 and the first epoch of his literary activity . Prague, Taussig & Taussig, 1911.
  • Victor Hadwiger 1878-1911. A contribution to the history of Expressionism in contemporary German poetry . Max Niemeyer, Halle 1921
  • German poetry from the beginning of the baroque to classicism 1700–1785 . Metzler, Stuttgart 1924
  • Expressive people and contemporary German poetry . 1927
  • The German poetry of the Enlightenment period 1700–1775 and The German poetry of the genius period 1750–1800 . 2 volumes, Metzler, Stuttgart 1948 and 1952

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the SAW: Ferdinand Josef Schneider. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 29, 2016 .