Friedrich Beissner
Friedrich Beißner (born December 26, 1905 in Hameln , † December 29, 1977 in Tübingen ) was a German specialist in German .
Career
Beißner was the son of a railway official. After graduating from the German studies with a doctorate, he joined in 1933 after the " seizure " of the Nazis in both the Nazi Teachers League and in the SA one. In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP and the NS-Studentenkampfhilfe .
He first became an assistant at the German seminar at the University of Giessen and in 1940 private lecturer at the University of Jena . At the same time, he got a job at the Goethe and Schiller Archive Weimar, where he worked on the Schiller National Edition; In the autumn of 1942, at the mediation of Leo Killy and his son Walther Killy , Beißner was given his habilitation in Tübingen, where he began work on the new historical-critical Hölderlin edition suggested by Walther Killy in time for the anniversary year 1943. Since Hölderlin was well-liked in the Nazi Reich, this enterprise received broad state funding.
After the end of the Second World War , Beißner continued his career in Tübingen as an associate professor from 1946 , where he was professor for German language and literature from 1961 until his retirement in 1970. Since 1970 he has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .
Beißner was best known for his work on German classical music. He is the editor of a scientific edition of the complete works of Friedrich Hölderlin , the so-called "Stuttgart Edition".
student
Friedrich Beißner's students include Siegfried Unseld , Walter Jens , Gerhard Storz , Johannes Poethen and Martin Walser , who attended his doctoral college , among others .
Publications
- Holderlin's translations from the Greek. Metzler, Stuttgart 1933. (Dissertation: Göttingen 1932)
- History of the German Elegy. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1941.
- Klopstock's patriotic dramas . Böhlau, Weimar 1942.
- The narrator Franz Kafka. A lecture , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1952.
- Wieland. Four Biberach Lectures , Insel, Wiesbaden 1954.
- Kafka the poet. A lecture , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958.
- Holderlin. Speeches and essays , Böhlau, Weimar 1961. (2nd complete edition: Böhlau, Cologne & Vienna 1969)
- The Bay of Babel. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1963.
editor
- Christoph Martin Wieland: Retirement Works ; in: Collected Writings . Edited by the Dt. Come on the royal Prussia. Akad. Der Wissenschaften, Dept. 1, Vol. 20, Weidmann, Berlin 1939.
- Friedrich Hölderlin: Hölderlin field selection , on behalf of the Hölderlin Society. Cotta, Stuttgart 1943
- (together with Adolf Beck ) Friedrich Hölderlin: Complete works . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1943–1985. (8 vols., "Large Stuttgart Edition")
- Friedrich Hölderlin: Complete Works . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1944–1962. (6 vols., "Small Stuttgart Edition")
- Friedrich Hölderlin: Peace celebration . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1954. (Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 4)
- Friedrich Hölderlin: Complete Works . Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 1961.
- Friedrich Hölderlin: Odes, elegies, chants . Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 1964. ( Insel-Bücherei 807)
- Christoph Martin Wieland: Selected works in 3 volumes . Winkler, Munich 1964–1965.
- (together with Jochen Schmidt ) Friedrich Hölderlin: Works and letters . Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 1969. (3 vol.)
- Poets on their poems , vol. 11: Friedrich Hölderlin , Heimeran, Munich 1973.
- (Adult and edited by Bernhard Böschenstein ) Friedrich Hölderlin. The poet on his work , 2., corr. and additional ed., Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1996.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Beißner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 55, there called “Friedrich Bißner”.
- ↑ Christoph König , Hans-Harald Müller , Werner Röcke (ed.): History of science in German studies in portraits . Berlin 2000, p. 229f.
- ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Friedrich Beißner. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 14, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Beißner, Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1905 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamelin |
DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1977 |
Place of death | Tübingen |