Friedrich Kummer (literary historian)

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Friedrich Kummer (born March 30, 1865 in Dresden ; † April 3, 1939 ibid) was a German literary historian and features editor .

Life

Friedrich Kummer was born in Dresden in 1865 as the son of the cellist and composer Friedrich August Kummer . He studied in Leipzig , Tübingen and Berlin and completed his studies in 1889 with a doctorate as Dr. phil. from. Kummer worked for the Dresdner Anzeiger for many years . In addition to his literary studies and literary critical work, he was also active in fiction himself .

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Following on from the historian and genealogist Ottokar Lorenz , who published his doctrine of generations in the " History of Science " in 1886 , Kummer worked out a temporal structure of literary history based on a generation theory. Kummer named Leopold von Ranke and Gustav von Rümelin as further historical models and Erich Schmidt as a stimulus .

In his German Literature History of the Nineteenth Century, published in 1909, Kummer also tried to show that the writers of the nineteenth century had an independent status and were not merely subordinate epigones of the Weimar Classics and German Romanticism .

An overview of the literature of the beginning of the 20th century, where he deals with Expressionism and Dadaism , was given by Kummer in the second volume of his 1922 German Literature History of the 19th and 20th Century .

As a long-time employee of the feuilleton and intimate connoisseur of the Dresden scene, Friedrich Kummer published Dresden and its theater world shortly before his death .

Publications

  • German literary history of the nineteenth century presented by generations , Carl Reissner, Dresden, 1909.
  • Dresden and the Elbe area . Edited by Association for the Promotion of Dresden and Tourism, 1910.
  • German literary history of the 19th and 20th centuries. First volume: From Hölderlin to Richard Wagner , Carl Reissner, Dresden, 1922.
  • German literary history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Second volume: From Hebbel to the Early Expressionists , Carl Reissner, Dresden, 1922.
  • Add. m. Dr. Wilhelm Frölich, several bound volumes: Scientific supplement, Tuesday supplement of the Dresdner Anzeiger , ed. vd Dr. Güntzsch Foundation, Dresden.
  • Dresden and its theater world , 1938.

literature

  • Julius Petersen : The science of poetry. System and methodology of literary studies . 2nd Edition. Edited and edited by Erich Trunz . Berlin 1944.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Krummel: Nietzsche and the German spirit. Vol. I: Spread and effect of Nietzsche's work in the German-speaking area up to the year of death . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1998, ISBN 311-016074-9 , p. 605.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Graf von Lüttichau : Truth of the Soul - Ida von Lüttichau (1798-1856). Autonomie und Chaos publishing house, Leipzig, 2010, ISBN 978-3-923211-65-4 , p. 59.
  3. ^ Robert Wohl: The Generation of 1914, Harvard University Press, 1979, p. 252. ISBN 0-674-34466-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Grief, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian and features editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1939
Place of death Dresden