Franz Jostes

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Franz Ludwig Jostes (born July 12, 1858 in Glandorf ; † May 16, 1925 in Münster ) was a German philologist and linguist . He was a private lecturer, from 1901 associate professor and from 1904 full professor for the German language at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster.

life and work

Jostes lost his mother, Anna Katharina Friederike, geb. Balz (1813–1862) at the age of four, his father, the businessman Franz Wilhelm Jostes (* 1813), died on July 7, 1868 of a stroke. He was an orphan at the age of ten and grew up with his grandparents. His grandfather Franz Wilhelm had founded the Jostes distillery in Glandorf and he also owned an inn. After attending elementary school in Glandorf in 1872, his grandparents sent him to the Laurentianum Warendorf grammar school , where he passed his Abitur in 1878. He then went to Freiburg im Breisgau to study medicine. But he soon changed the subject and the university and studied German in Berlin, Strasbourg and Leipzig. In Strasbourg, Jostes became a member of the Catholic student association KStV Frankonia in the KV . His doctorate was a work on the pulpit speeches of the Low German preacher Johannes Veghe. 1882-1883 he did his military service in Leipzig.

In 1884 Jostes became a private lecturer at the Royal Theological Academy in Münster (habilitation thesis: Use and development of the Low German, in particular Westphalian, dialect in the written monuments of prehistoric times ). He followed in 1889 a reputation as a professor of Germanic philology and German literature at the newly founded University of Friborg in Switzerland. It was the first Catholic university in the country and Jostes was elected its rector. On December 9, 1897, he resigned (together with other Reich German professors) due to a nationality conflict between German and French-speaking professors. In 1898 he returned to Münster as a private lecturer at the academy. Jostes brother, the tanner Eduard Jostes, left his home village Glandorf and his family in 1892. His wife died on February 7, 1894. Jostes took in his three nieces Maria, Friderike and Elisabeth in Münster. He never married. In 1901 the associate professorship followed and in 1904 the full professorship. In 1902 he became full professor and director of the German Department. His subject areas were broadly diversified. Among other things, he taught about pre-Christian Germanic antiquities and doctrine of gods, Westphalian costumes, elements of Low German language and specialist languages, German preaching, German Bible translations in the Middle Ages and Westphalian satirists of the 15th century. Jostes was given leave of absence from 1921 and in June 1923 asked to be released "from the obligation to hold lectures".

Jostes was a member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (1888) and an external honorary member of the Royal Flemish Academy in Ghent (1905). In 1898 he became a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , from which he resigned in 1910. As chairman of the German-Flemish Society and a supporter of the Flemish movement , he was on the list of people to be extradited under the Versailles Treaty . He died on May 16, 1925.

Publications

  • Johannes Veghe: a German preacher of the XV. Century. Franz Jostes. Niemeyer, Halle 1883.
  • Daniel von Soest: a Westphalian. Satirist d. 16th century. Franz Jostes (ed.). Schöningh, Paderborn 1888.
  • Pre-Christian antiquities in the Gaue Süderberge Franz Jostes and Wilhelm Effmann . Regensberg, Münster i. W. 1888
  • Meister Eckhart and his disciples: unprinted texts on the history of d. German mysticism. Franz Jostes (ed.). Commission publisher of the university bookstore, Friborg (Switzerland) 1895.
  • The Pied Piper of Hameln: A Contribution to the Lore. Franz Jostes. P. Hanstein, Bonn 1895.
  • The emperor and king documents of the Osnabrück region. Franz Jostes (ed.). Aschendorff, Münster iW 1899.
  • Johann Mathias Seling: His life and his striving to alleviate the social misery of his time. Franz Jostes. Aschendorff, Münster 1900.
  • Westphalian costume book: Volksleben u. Folk culture in Westphalia, the current u. former Westphalian u. schaumburg. Areas comprehensive. Franz Jostes. Velhagen & Klasing, 1904
  • Roland in grief and grief. The solution to the Roland riddle. Franz Jostes. Ruhfus, Dortmund 1906.
  • Kyrieleison. Franz Jostes. Stiffer, Ghent 1908.
  • The home of Heliand. Franz Jostes. Aschendorff, Münster i. W. 1912.
  • Annette v. Droste-Hülshoff: Spiritual year in songs on all Sundays and holidays. Franz Jostes (ed.). Aschendorff, Münster i. W. 1913.
  • The Flemings in the fight for their language and their nationality. Franz Jostes. Borgmeyer, Münster i. W. 1915.
  • An overview of Flemish literature. Franz Jostes. Volksvereins-Verlag, Mönchen Gladbach 1917.
  • Hendrik Conscience. Franz Jostes. Volksvereins-Verlag, Mönchen Gladbach 1917.
  • From old Flanders. Franz Jostes. Siegismund, Berlin 1917.
  • Solstice: Research on the Germanic history of religion and legends. Vol. 1: The religion of the Celto-Europeans. Franz Jostes. Aschendorff, Münster iW 1926.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Bernhard Riese: Glandorfer Gestalten. Volume 1. Wilhelm Krimphoff, Sassenberg-Füchtorf 1975, pp. 40-55.
  2. ↑ Dr. Carsten Albers: History of German Studies in Münster: A Chronology. In: Werner Zillig (Ed.): Jost Trier: Life - Work - Effect. Aa Verlag, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-930472-48-1 . History of German studies in Münster. ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 24, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aaverlag.de
personal data
SURNAME Jostes, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jostes, Franz Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Glandorf
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1925
Place of death Muenster