Franz Brunhölzl

Franz Brunhölzl (born June 12, 1924 in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit , † June 6, 2014 in Munich ) was a German Middle Latin philologist .

Life

Franz Brunhölzl was drafted into the Wehrmacht after graduating from high school and served on the Eastern Front during World War II . In 1944 he was released due to a war injury and began studying at Charles University in Prague . He studied Classical Philology and Latin Philology of the Middle Ages. After the evacuation of the University of Prague, he went to the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate from Paul Lehmann in 1951 with the dissertation Florilegium Treverense: A sententious poet Florilegium of the late Middle Ages . After completing his habilitation in Munich (1961), he went to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg on January 14, 1964 , where he founded the Department of Medieval Latin Philology as an associate professor. The estate of his teacher Paul Lehmann formed the basis of the library there.

In the same year, 1964, Brunhölzl switched to a full professorship in his subject in Marburg . His successor in Erlangen, Paul Klopsch , was also appointed full professor in 1966. Brunhölzl's assistant in Marburg was his student Fidel Rädle , who had already worked with him in Erlangen. In 1975 Brunhölzl moved to his alma mater in Munich, where he taught and researched until his retirement in 1990.

Franz Brunhölzl was one of the best experts on Latin literature of the Middle Ages. He dealt with different literary epochs, individual works and authors as well as with questions of the history of transmission. His history of Latin literature in the Middle Ages is considered a standard work. Together with Kurt Ruh he worked on the 8th volume (European Late Middle Ages) of the New Handbook of Literary Studies. On his 65th birthday, a commemorative publication was published in his honor with the title Tradition and Valuation .

literature

• Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. = The academic teachers of the Philipps University in Marburg (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 15). Volume 2: From 1911 to 1971. Elwert, Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-7708-0580-1 , pp. 477-478.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 19th edition (2003), p. 402.

Web links

• Literature by Franz Brunhölzl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brunhölzl, Franz. Hessian biography. (As of April 28, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).