Franz Pfeiffer (Germanist)

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Franz Pfeiffer, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1840

Franz Pfeiffer (born February 27, 1815 in Solothurn , Switzerland ; † May 29, 1868 in Vienna ) was a Swiss German philologist and philologist.

Life

Franz Pfeiffer was born as a local citizen of Bettlach in Solothurn . His father Klemens Pfeiffer was a musician. After attending schools in Solothurn, Franz Pfeiffer studied medicine in Munich from 1834 to 1840, then Germanic languages. In 1846 he became royal librarian in Stuttgart and in 1857 accepted a call as professor of German literature at the University of Vienna, where he was appointed a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1860 and died on May 29, 1868. Since 1856 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He suggested the Kösener Vogelweiden , a summer meeting of Germanists in Kösen .

Pfeiffer edited the quarterly journal he founded for German antiquity Germania (Stuttgart 1856 ff., Vienna since 1859; continued after his death by Karl Bartsch , continued by Otto Behaghel since 1888 ) and initiated the collection of German medieval classics , for which he himself edited as 1st volume by Walther von der Vogelweide (6th edition by Bartsch, Leipzig 1880).

Publications (selection)

The old Heidelberg song manuscript , edited by Franz Pfeiffer
  • On the history of German literature (Stuttgart 1855)
  • On the nature and formation of the courtly language in the Middle High German period (Vienna 1861)
  • The poet of the Nibelungenlied (Vienna. 1862, in which he tried to prove that the minstrel von Kürenberg was the author of the poem)
  • Research and criticism in the field of German antiquity (Vienna. 1863)
  • Free research; small writings on the history of German literature and language (Vienna. 1867)

He also published numerous works of older German, especially Middle High German literature, including:

  • Barlaam and Josaphat by Rudolf von Ems (Leipzig 1843)
  • The Weingartner and Heidelberg song manuscript (Stuttgart 1843, 2 vol.)
  • The Gem (Leipzig 1844)
  • The German mystics of the 14th century (Leipzig 1845–1857, 2 vols.). Texts by Nikolaus von Strassburg , Hermann von Fritzlar , David von Augsburg (vol. 1) and Meister Eckhart (vol. 2)
  • as editor: with Joseph Strobl: Berthold Von Regensburg: Complete edition of his sermons with notes and dictionary. 2 volumes 1862.
  • Mary's legends (Stuttgart 1846; new edition, Vienna 1863)
  • Wigalois von Wirnt von Gravenberg (Leipzig 1847)
  • German chronicle of the orders of Nikolaus von Jeroschin (Stuttgart 1854); the sermons of Berthold von Regensburg (Vienna 1862)
  • The book of nature by Konrad von Megenberg : the first natural history in German. Aue, Stuttgart 1861 (actually 1862); Reprint Olms, Hildesheim 1962 and 1994. Digitized .
  • Two German pharmacopoeias from the XII. and XIII. Century, with a dictionary. In: Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, philosophical-historical class. Volume 42. K. Gerold. Vienna 1863, pp. 110-200.
  • Theologia in German : which learns to many a lovely and mysterious gothic truth and to live from a people since a very high and even beautiful thing; based on the only known manuscript. and provided with a new German translation. 3. Edition. Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1875 [1]

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Franz Pfeiffer  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Franz Pfeiffer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pfeiffer celebration in Bettlach May 29, 1870 . Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1870 (special print from: Germania; vol. 15).
  2. ^ Karl Halm : Franz Pfeiffer (obituary) . In: Meeting reports of the royal. bayer. Academy of Sciences in Munich . tape 1 , 1870, p. 369–379 ( online [PDF; accessed March 22, 2017]).