Franz Saran

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Franz Saran (born October 27, 1866 in Altranstädt , Merseburg district , † April 22, 1931 in Erlangen ) was a German specialist in German and metrics .

Life

After attending school in Halle (Saale) , Saran studied philology (Latin, Greek, Romance studies and German studies), history and philosophy at the universities of Halle , Leipzig and Freiburg . In 1889 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the poetry of Hartmann von Aue to Dr. phil. As a scholarship holder, he went to Paris to study language . Then he was a teacher at the Francke Foundations . In 1895 he completed his military service and resigned from the army as a second lieutenant . In the same year he completed his habilitation in German studies , the subject of his qualification paper was the Gospel Book of Otfried von Weißenburg . Konrad Burdach gave Saran's habilitation a negative report; Philipp Strauch , on the other hand , pushed through the granting of the Venia Legendi to Saran, although he found the portrayal "indeed often noticeably awkward and unplastic".

In 1907 he was appointed associate professor . Together with his student Ewald Geißler , he held courses for verse teaching in Halle. He received a full professorship at the University of Erlangen in 1913 . With publications on the Hildebrandslied (1915) and the heroic poems of the Middle Ages (1922) he proved to be a productive scientist. In 1917 he campaigned for Ewald Geißler to move from Halle to Erlangen. In addition to Geissler, Saran's habilitation candidates also included Kurt May (both in 1925). Saran's textbook Translating from Middle High German (1930) was formative for several generations of German studies students and was continued by Bert Nagel after his death .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Franz Saran in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
  2. ^ André Hüttner: On the development of linguistic phonetics at the University of Halle (Saale) until 1961. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2019, p. 42.
personal data
SURNAME Saran, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in German studies and metrics
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Altranstädt
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1931
Place of death gain