Friedrich Ranke

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Friedrich Ranke (born September 21, 1882 in Lübeck , † October 11, 1950 in Basel ) was a German Medieval Germanist and folklorist .

Career

Ranke was one of three sons of the Lübeck theologian Leopold Friedrich Ranke and his wife Julie, nee. von Bever (1850-1924). His brothers were the Egyptologist Hermann and the psychiatrist Otto .

After graduating from high school at the Katharineum in Lübeck at Easter 1901 (together with Joseph Carlebach ) Ranke studied German , English and Nordic philology between 1902 and 1907 at the universities of Göttingen (1902/03), Munich (1903/05) and Berlin (1905/07 ). In Munich he dealt for the first time with folklore research with Friedrich von der Leyen . In Berlin he did his doctorate with the thesis Language and Style in the Wälschen Gast des Thomasin von Circlaria . 1910/11 followed the habilitation at the University of Strasbourg with The Redeemer in the cradle . During his studies in Göttingen he became a member of the Black Castle Bund - connection Burschenschaft Germania .

From 1912 Ranke was a private lecturer in Göttingen. During the First World War , the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck awarded the Lübeck Hanseatic Cross to those fighting in the 2nd Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 82 . In 1917 he became professor for Germanic philology in Göttingen and in 1921 professor for German philology at the University of Königsberg . In 1930 he filled the chair of the same name at the University of Wroclaw , where he had to retire temporarily in 1937 due to a defamation suit brought by his colleague Walther Steller "because of non-Aryan infiltration". He was married to Frieda, geb. Stein, the sister of Marie Stein-Ranke , both of whom were considered “half-Jewish” according to the Nuremberg Laws .

In 1938 he therefore succeeded Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer as professor of German philology at the University of Basel .

Gravestone of Friedrich Ranke

His grave is in the Hörnli cemetery in Riehen BS.

Publications (selection)

  • Language and style in the Wälschen guest of Thomassin von Circlaria. Diss. Berlin 1908 online  - Internet Archive .
  • The German folk tales. Munich 1910 (Deutsches Sagenbuch; 4).
  • The Savior in the Cradle. A contribution to German folk tale research. Munich 1911 online  - Internet Archive .
  • Tristan and Isold. Munich 1925 (Books of the Middle Ages; 3).
  • The allegory of the Minnegrotto in Gottfried's Tristan. Berlin 1925 (Königsberg learned society / humanities class: writings of the Königsberg learned society, humanities class; 2.2).
  • Songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein on the hike . In: Folklore gifts. John Meier offered on his seventieth birthday , Berlin: de Gruyter 1934, pp. 157–166.
  • Folk tale research. Lectures and Essays. Breslau 1935 (German Studies / A; 4).
  • Old Norse elementary book. Literature, language, texts with translation and dictionary. Berlin 1937 (Göschen Collection; 1115).
  • God, the world and humanity in German poetry in the Middle Ages. Basel 1952.
  • Smaller fonts. Bern, Munich 1971 (Bibliotheca Germanica; 12).
  • The tradition of Gottfried's Tristan. Darmstadt 1974.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized version , no. 1132
  2. ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 118 No. 2446.
  3. ↑ Lübeck city archives in terms of Senate files: Directory of the owner of the Lübeckischen Hanseatic Cross. Signature 1093.

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personal data
SURNAME Ranke, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medievalist and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1950
Place of death Basel