Franz Schultz (philologist)

Franz Schultz (born December 4, 1877 in Culm ; † October 6, 1950 in Frankfurt ) was a German studies scholar and professor of modern German literary history , most recently at the University of Frankfurt a. M.

Life

Franz Schultz was a son of the high school director Franz Schultz and Anna Vitali. He attended the city high schools in Danzig and Culm until 1896 . It was in 1900 in Berlin with Erich Schmidt Dr. phil. doctorate , then initially worked as a private assistant to Hermann Hüffer in Bonn , completed his habilitation in May 1903 at the University of Bonn and became a professor in Strasbourg in 1910 .

Schultz took part in the World War on the German side from 1914 to 1918 and was awarded the Knight's Cross 1st Class in 1918. After the war he came to the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1919 and at the same time became head of the central office of the University of Strasbourg in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1920 to 1921 he was the first full professor for modern German literary history at the newly founded University of Cologne . In 1921 he moved to the University of Frankfurt as the successor to Julius Petersen as a full professor of modern German literary history and also became director of the Germanic seminar.

Schultz was not one of the big names in his discipline, but was considered a solid craftsman who "was not expected to be particularly radiant". He held his first courses in the winter semester of 1921/22, “where he already offered two of his favorite subjects with courses on 'German Literature in the Age of Humanism, the Reformation and the Renaissance' and 'Heinrich von Kleist'. His repertoire also included, with remarkable regularity between 1921 and 1950, events on 'The German Literature Between Baroque and Classic', on Goethe and Schiller, on Romanticism and again and again on contemporary authors, preferably George, Rilke and Hauptmann. "

Also in 1921 Schultz was a co-founder of the Scientific Institute of the Alsace-Lorraine in the Reich at the University of Frankfurt. During the Nazi era he was a member of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association and the National Socialist People's Welfare and, presumably out of opportunism, also became a supporting member of the SS in 1933 . When he was denazified in 1945, he stated that he was not a member of the party. In 1942 he published an anthology of Alsatian and Lorraine poets of the recent past .

As a result of a savings ordinance, Schultz was retired on April 1, 1949. Nevertheless, as an emeritus, he was a lecturer at the University of Frankfurt until his death.

Schultz was married twice, in his first marriage in 1904 to Ella Lekebusch, with whom he had two daughters, and in his second marriage to Hildegard Rampenthal, with whom he had a daughter.

Fonts (selection)

• Joseph Görres as editor, literary historian, critic in connection with the younger romanticism , Berlin 1902
• The authors of the night watch of Bonaventure. Studies on German Romanticism , Berlin 1909
• From Rhenish poetry. A sketch , Bonn 1909
• Klopstock. His mission in German intellectual history , Frankfurt am Main 1924
• Classical and Romanticism of the Germans , Stuttgart 1935–40
  • 1. The basics of classical-romantic literature (epochs of German literature 4.1)
  • 2. The German Classical Period and the Classical-Romantic Turning Point (Epochs of German Literature 4.2)
• Poetry and literature in Alsace and Lorraine . In: Otto Meissner (Ed.): German Alsace. German Lorraine. A cross-section of history, folklore and culture . Berlin: Otto Stolberg, 1941, pp. 145-184

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries. 10th edition, Berlin 1935
• Josephine Rumpf-Fleck : Directory of the writings of Franz Schultz . In: Contributions to the intellectual and cultural history of the Upper Rhine region , Frankfurt am Main 1938, pp. 239–244,
• Hans Rudolf Velten : Franz Schulz. In: 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 .
• Frank Estelmann, Olaf Müller: Adapted everyday life in German and Romance studies. Franz Schultz and the Frankfurt German Studies. In: Jörn Kobes, Jan-Otmar Hesse (Ed.): Frankfurt scientists between 1933 and 1945 . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008, on Schulz pp. 34–45

Web links

• Frankfurt literary scholar - Franz Schultz on the website of the University of Frankfurt
• Literature by and about Franz Schultz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank Estelmann, Olaf Müller: Adapted everyday life in German and Romance studies. Franz Schultz and the Frankfurt German Studies. P. 33.
2. ^ Frank Estelmann, Olaf Müller: Adapted everyday life in German and Romance studies. Franz Schultz and the Frankfurt German Studies. P. 36.
3. ↑ Frank Estelmann, Olaf Müller: Adapted everyday life , 2008, p. 42, fn. 18