Friedrich Panzer (Germanist)
Friedrich Panzer (born September 4, 1870 in Asch , Bohemia ; † March 18, 1956 in Heidelberg ) was a German German studies scholar and professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg .
Life
The son of a factory owner attended grammar school in Eger and studied German and art history at the universities of Leipzig , Jena , Munich and Vienna . During his studies in 1889 he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity . In 1894 he completed his habilitation with Hermann Paul as a private lecturer in Munich. The Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg appointed him in 1901 as associate professor. In 1905 he received a chair at the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt am Main, from which the Goethe University emerged in 1914. There he was rector from 1911 to 1913. In 1916 he became a secret councilor . From 1919 to 1936 he taught in Heidelberg, where he also became rector. From 1941 to 1947 he was President of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . Since 1949 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
He dealt with the literature of the Germanic period and the high Middle Ages as well as the early German art monuments, namely sculpture and ornamentation . In doing so, he examined the interrelationships between fine arts and literature. He was particularly interested in fairy tale research and heroic sagas ( Kudrun ). At the end of his life he reissued the Nibelungenlied .
In addition, he also worked as chairman of the German Association of Germanists from 1922 to 1933 and published the magazine for German teaching (from 1920 magazine for German studies ). His aim was to establish a strongly nationalist-oriented German language course in the German school system, especially in the Weimar Republic , and he opposed traditional language teaching. In 1922 he gave the lecture German Studies as the Center of German Education . Specifically, as the successor to the Brothers Grimm, he advocated the teaching of legends and folk songs as a source of Germanness in the child's soul and for learning the older German language classes in school (instead of the old languages). He had an influence on the Richertsche grammar school reform in Prussia in 1925. In 1930 he received the Brothers Grimm Memorial Coin .
In 1933 Panzer joined the NS-Lehrerbund (NSLB), but not the NSDAP.
Fonts
- Basics of German Studies , ed. v. Walther Hofstaetter and F. Panzer, 1st volume Leipzig 1925, 2nd volume Leipzig 1929
- as editor: Meier Helmbrecht von Wernher dem Gartenaere. 4th edition Halle an der Saale 1932 (= Altdeutsche Textbibliothek , 11)
- The children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm , complete edition of the original version, ed. v. Friedrich Panzer, Emil Vollmer Verlag Wiesbaden, no year (probably 1947)
literature
- Ingrid Kasten: Friedrich Panzer (1870–1956), in: History of Science in German Studies in Portraits , ed. v. Christoph König, Hans-Harald Müller, Werner Röcke, Berlin / New York 2000
- Christian Kiening : Panzer, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 40 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Panzer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 376.
- ^ Friedrich Panzer obituary in the 1957 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
- ↑ Frankfurt literary scholar, 1914–1945: Friedrich Panzer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Panzer, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Asch , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1956 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |