Ferdinand Vetter

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Ferdinand Vetter (born February 3, 1847 in Osterfingen ; † August 6, 1924 in St. Georgen Monastery , Stein am Rhein ) was a Swiss Germanist and Medievalist . Vetter used the pseudonym Friedrich Volker in early publications . He was the brother of the Englishist Theodor Vetter .

Life

After studying in Basel, Berlin, Göttingen and Leipzig, Ferdinand Vetter initially worked as a high school teacher and private lecturer. As such, he worked from 1874 at the University of Zurich , from 1876 professor of modern German literature and comparative literary history at the University of Bern . In 1909/10 he was rector . As the editor of individual writings and a multi-volume popular edition, he contributed significantly to the success of Jeremias Gotthelf's literary work. From cousin works for German literary history in particular is the compendium of teaching sticking literature of the 14th and 15th centuries worth noting where many manuscripts and incunabula only difficult to reach are the first to assemble, like the ring of Heinrich Wittenwiler . In the case of didactic literature, his research also included allegorical chess books . Despite his diverse studies, especially on Swiss topics and authors, he stuck to their classification as "German" national literature. As an author, in addition to poems, he has also written several historical stage works, for example on Friedrich Schiller . From 1891 to 1895 he was the publisher and at times editor of the short-lived but influential Schweizerische Rundschau .

In the 1890s he restored the St. Georgen monastery in Stein am Rhein in the style of historicism .

Works (selection)

  • Ferdinand Vetter: About Germanic poetry of allitteration . (Diss. University of Göttingen) 1872 (digitized version)
  • Ferdinand Vetter: On Muspilli and Germanic allitteration poetry: the metric, the critical, the dogmatic . 1872 (digitized version)
  • Ferdinand Vetter (editor): Two Chur legends and the old Germanic gods Frey and Balder. A mythological attempt . 1872
  • Ferdinand Vetter (pseud. Friedrich Volker): V [Five] old beautiful songs, from the strite ze Murten. 1876
  • Ferdinand Vetter (pseud. Friedrich Volker): Sang and urge. Poems. 1876
  • Jakob Baechtold , Ferdinand Vetter (editor): Library of older written works from German-speaking Switzerland and its border area . 1877-1892
  • Ferdinand Vetter: The S. Georgen monastery in Stein am Rhein. A contribution to history and art history. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 13th year 1884, pp. 23-109 ( digitized version )
  • Jeremias Gotthelf , Ferdinand Vetter (editor): Jeremias Gotthelf. Selected stories and pictures from popular life in Switzerland. In the original form with explanations of words ed. , 1886
  • Ferdinand Vetter: Didactic literature of the 14th and 15th centuries. In two volumes. German national literature. 12th volume . 1889
  • Ferdinand Vetter (editor): The chess book of Kunrat von Ammenhausen , Mönchs and Leutpriesters zu Stein am Rhein. In addition to the chess books by Jakob von Cessole and Jakob Mennel . 1892
  • Jeremias Gotthelf , Ferdinand Vetter (editor): Jeremias Gotthelf. Popular edition of his works in the original text . 10 volumes u. Erg.bd. 1898-1902
  • Ferdinand Vetter: Switzerland - a “German province”? My Nuremberg speech and its consequences. A commitment and a reckoning . 1902
  • Ferdinand Vetter: Schiller's escape from Stuttgart. Game in one act and 3 pictures for the Schiller celebration in 1905 . 1902
  • Ferdinand Vetter: Abbot David. A play with choir singing from the time of the German Reformation . 1911
  • Niklaus Manuel , Ferdinand Vetter: A caller in dispute: Niklaus Manuel's first Reformation poems . 1917
  • Ferdinand Vetter: Description of the Sankt-Georgen-Kloster zu Stein am Rhein . Bircher, 1920
  • Niklaus Manuel , Ferdinand Vetter (editor): Nikolaus Manuel's game of evangelical freedom «Die Totenfresser. On the Pope and his Priesthood »1523. Edited for the first time according to the only old manuscript. u. a. , 1923

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 3: R-Z. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Dietzel u. Hans-Otto Hügel (ed.): German literary magazines 1880-1945 . Vol. 4. Saur, Munich a. a. 1988, pp. 1109f.
personal data
SURNAME Cousin, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volker, Friedrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Germanist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterfingen , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1924
Place of death Stein am Rhein , Switzerland