Friedrich Hirth (comparator)

Friedrich Hirth (born July 25, 1878 in Vienna , † December 20, 1952 in Mainz ) was an Austrian Germanist , Romanist and comparativeist of Jewish descent with French nationality.

life and work

From 1901 to 1918 Hirth was a grammar school teacher in Vienna, Teschen , Gottschee and Prague . He received his doctorate in German studies under Jakob Minor in Vienna in 1916 with the thesis The type of cheated farmers . From 1919 to 1922 he lived in Paris . In view of the emergence of National Socialism , he emigrated to France at an early stage, where he published books about Gustav Stresemann and Adolf Hitler . From 1946 he was the first German professor of comparative literature at the University of Mainz , and from 1949 on an endowed chair of the French military government. Hirth was primarily a Germanist and Heine researcher , but also became a Romance and comparative literary scholar through the "Parisian" Heine and through his own change of nationality.

Other works

• Truth fanaticism and autosuggestion in poetry , Teschen 1907
• Johann Peter Lyser. The poet, painter, musician , Munich 1911
• (Ed.) From Friedrich Hebbel's correspondence. Unprinted letters from and to the poet, along with contributions to the textual criticism of individual works , Munich 1913
• (Ed.) The Sopha. Moral narratives ; from the French of the younger Crébillon after the German translation from 1765, Vienna / Leipzig 1913, 1919
• (Ed.) Pictures of life by Honoré de Balzac . Three parts in two volumes, translated from French by Dr. Hermann-David Baer Schiff [1801–1867]. With a history of the work and a biography of Schiff, Leipzig 1913
• Heine's travel pictures , Hamburg / Berlin 1920
• Stresemann , Paris 1930
• Hitler ou le guerrier déchaîné , Paris 1930
• Heinrich Heine and his French friends , Mainz 1949
• Heinrich Heine. Building blocks for a biography , Mainz 1950

literature

• Comparative literature in the province. Friedrich Hirth on his 100th birthday . [Ed .: Thomas Bleicher], Mainz 1978
• Jean Dresch in: Revue de littérature comparée 27, 1953, p. 20
• Olaf Hildebrand in: Internationales Germanistenlexikon , Berlin 2003, sv
• Hermann J. Weigand: Heine in Paris. Friedrich Hirth's Commentary on the Letters 1831-44, in: Orbis Litterarum 11, 1956, pp. 175-193
• János Riesz: Political engagement of a homme de lettres. Friedrich Hirth's book about Hitler, in: Neohelicon 12, 1985, pp. 219-230
• János Riesz: Friedrich Hirth - mediator between Germany and France and fighter against National Socialism, in: Hans Helmut Christmann , Frank-Rutger Hausmann (ed.): German and Austrian Romanists as persecuted by National Socialism , Tübingen 1989, pp. 215-230
• Hirth, Friedrich. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 12: Hirs – Jaco. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22692-2 , pp. 100-107.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Hirth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Chronicle of the Mainz Institute for General and Comparative Literature Studies