Friedrich Braun (Germanist)

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Friedrich Braun (born July 20, 1862 in St. Petersburg , † June 14, 1942 in Leipzig ) was a Germanist and classical philologist . He taught at the Universities of Petersburg and Leipzig .

Life

Friedrich Braun's grave at the Südfriedhof in Leipzig

The son of the doctor Alexander Braun, whose ancestors came from Rüdesheim , studied German at the universities of Freiburg , Paris and St. Petersburg since 1880 . After 1885 he was a teacher at a high school. In 1888 he was in St. Petersburg for the Germanic Philology habilitation , was there a lecturer and graduated two years later without a doctorate to have.

Braun rose to associate professor in 1900, and finally to full professor in 1905. He held this office until 1915. From 1895 to 1906 he was also the editor of the St. Petersburg Society for Neuphilology, and then its president. He also acted as dean of the historical-philosophical faculty .

In 1920 Braun moved to the University of Leipzig . There he first became a private lecturer in Germanic philology, and two years later he became a full honorary professor for the history of Eastern Europe at the Institute for Cultural and Universal History . He became a full professor of this subject in 1930, but left the university two years later. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . From 1927 he was a corresponding member of the then Soviet Academy of Sciences .

Braun died in Leipzig in 1942 at the age of 79. The marriage with Auguste Dorothea Kawizki came from the Göttingen philology professor Maximilian Braun (1903-1984).

Works

  • The theaters of war on the Balkan Peninsula (Leipzig / Berlin 1916)
  • The Indigenous Population of Europe and the Origin of the Teutons (Berlin 1922)
  • The Japhetitic Caucasus and the Third Ethnic Element in the Educational Process of the Mediterranean Culture (Berlin 1923)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Friedrich (Fjodor Alexandrowitsch) Braun. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 4, 2015 (in Russian).

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personal data
SURNAME Braun, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Браун, Фёдор Александрович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Germanist and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1942
Place of death Leipzig