Friedrich Panzer (collector of sagas)

Friedrich Panzer (born October 22, 1794 in Eschenfelden (Upper Palatinate), † November 16, 1854 in Munich ) was a Bavarian saga collector and architect.

In 1813 he graduated from the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich .

Panzer worked as an architect in the Bavarian civil service and was involved in the design of the chapel on the Altenburg (Bamberg) in 1834 . In 1839 he became a government building officer in Munich and in 1843 a senior ministerial building officer. In 1852 he became a Knight of the Order of Merit of St. Michael .

On his business trips he collected legends, where he was particularly interested in those stories in which he smelled traces of ancient beliefs in gods . His collection of sagas, Bavarian Legends and Customs (Vol. 1 1848, Vol. 2 posthumously 1855) therefore represented the mythological interpretation of legends, which is rejected today. However, the work is one of the classics of the historical Bavarian saga collections.

literature

• Heidrun Alzheimer-Haller: Panzer, Friedrich . In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales . Vol. 10 (2002), col. 515-516. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Manfred Hörner: Panzer, Friedrich. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Supplementary volume. 1000 personalities from 15 centuries. Pustet, Regensburg 1988, ISBN 3-7917-1153-9 , p. 132 ( digitized version ).
• Richard Hoche :  Panzer, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 132.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Panzer  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Friedrich Panzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Panzer (collector of sagas) in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 238.