Franz Zinkernagel

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Franz Anton August Zinkernagel (born March 10, 1878 in Hanau , † November 3, 1935 in Basel ) was a German literary scholar and university professor .

Life

His father, Karl Ferdinand Zinkernagel, was a railway engineer, his mother was Auguste Zinkernagel, née Dietz. The mother died giving birth and the father was unable to raise the child. He grew up with a sister of his mother in Frankfurt am Main . He attended the Souchan School in Sachsenhausen and passed the Abitur examination in 1998 at the Royal Kaiser-Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main. He then studied philology, later particularly German philology, philosophy and history in Marburg and Berlin . His academic teachers in Berlin were Adolf Lasson , Richard Moritz Meyer , Max Roediger, Erich Schmidtand Karl Weinhold. He received his doctorate in 1904 under Ernst Elster in Marburg. In his dissertation he dealt with Friedrich Hebbel .

After studying in Paris and Florence , he completed his habilitation in Tübingen in 1907 and worked as a private lecturer, from 1914 as an associate professor for modern German literary history in Tübingen and at the same time taught as a senior teacher at the Tübingen girls' school, which he also led for a time. From 1917 to 1935 he was a full professor for German language and literature at the University of Basel . His main focus was on German literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich Hölderlin and Friedrich Hebbel .

His most important achievement is the publication of the complete works and letters of Friedrich Hölderlin in five volumes . The Insel Verlag Anton Kippenbergs only published the text volumes. The entire editorial work that was in the text-critical apparatus and in the annotations remained unprinted. The Zinkernagel edition was unable to assert itself alongside competing editions by Norbert von Hellingrath and Wilhelm Böhm and the later edition by Friedrich Beißner . The publication of the previously unprinted parts of the Hölderlin edition by Wallstein Verlag in Göttingen did not begin until 2019. Zinkernagel expressed his criticism of Hellingrath's Hölderlin edition in two reviews that appeared in the magazine Euphorion .

During the National Socialist era , he campaigned for many German and Jewish scientists who had emigrated to Switzerland.

Important parts of the estate of Franz Zinkernagel can be found in the University Library of Basel (lecture manuscripts, correspondence) and in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart (scientific apparatus for the Hölderlin edition, articles, lectures).

A grandson of Franz Zinkernagel is the Swiss physician and Nobel Prize winner Rolf Zinkernagel

Works

  • The basics of Hebbel's tragedy . Reimer, Berlin 1904. ( digitized version )
  • The history of the development of Hölderlin's Hyperion . Trübner, Strasbourg 1907. ( digitized version )
  • Goethe and Hebbel. An antithesis . Mohr, Tübingen 1911. ( digitized version )
  • Goethe's original master and the type idea. An academic speech . Seldwyla publishing house (K. Hönn), Zurich 1922.
  • A dramaturgical essay by Hölderlin . In: Poetry and Research . Festschrift for Emil Ermatinger . May 21, 1933, ed. by Walter Muschg and Rudolf Hunziker , Huber, Frauenfeld and Leipzig 1933, pp. 88–103.

Editing

  • Hebbel's works . Volume 1-6. Critically reviewed and explained edition. (Meyer's classic editions) Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1899–1913.
  • Herder's Shakespeare essay in three forms . Marcus and Weber, Bonn 1912.
  • Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works and letters . Critical-historical edition in five volumes. Insel, Leipzig 1914–1926.

literature

  • Prof. Dr. Franz Zinkernagel, March 10, 1878 - November 3, 1935 , memorial. Schudel, Riehen 1935.
  • Hans Gerhard Steimer (Ed.): Friedrich Hölderlin. Critical-historical edition by Franz Zinkernagel 1914-1926 . Poems, readings and explanations. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2019. ISBN 978-3-8353-3489-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph König and Birgit Wägenbaur (eds.): Internationales Germanistenlexikon. De Gruyter, Berlin 2003, Volume 3, Col. 2104-2105
  2. ↑ Euphorion , vol. 1914, vol. 21, vol. 1 and 2, pp. 356-363 and vol
  3. ↑ Hans Gerhard Steimer (Ed.): Friedrich Hölderlin. Critical-historical edition by Franz Zinkernagel 1914–1926. Poems, readings and explanations. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2019, p. 13 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Zinkernagel, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zinkernagel, Franz Anton August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1935
Place of death near Basel