Friedrich von der Leyen (Germanist)
Friedrich von der Leyen (* 19th August 1873 in Bremen ; † 6 June 1966 in Kirchseeon in Munich ) was a German germanistischer medievalist and folklorist .
biography
Von der Leyen attended the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1880 to 1891 . He studied until 1894 at the University of Marburg , the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin . In 1891 he became a member of the Alemannia Marburg fraternity . After his studies he received his doctorate in 1894 under Karl Weinhold with a thesis on the early Middle High German discourse on the faith of poor Hartmann . The Munich habilitation paper (1899) was dedicated to the fairy tale in the legends of the gods of the Edda .
From 1920 until his retirement in 1937 he held a chair for German Philology at the University of Cologne . In 1937 he was the National Socialist rulers senator of the German Academy of Literature, a division of regimented Prussian Academy of Arts , was appointed. The following year he published a study on the Germanic gods .
After the Second World War he was an honorary professor in Cologne and Munich from 1947 to 1953.
His scientific activity always sought a popular educational approach to society. In his extensive work as a collector and editor, he conveyed “old German poetry” to a wider audience. The fairy tale research and folklore play a central role in his work. In addition to the actual philological and folklore work, von der Leyen also took a position on cultural and educational policy .
Together with Eugen Diederichs and Paul Zaunert , von der Leyen was the founder and editor of the book series The Fairy Tales of World Literature . For Wilhelm Hertz : Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach . (Editions 1904, 1930, 2002) he wrote the afterword.
His wife was the painter Helene von der Leyen , b. Asher (1874-1950).
literature
- Hugo Kuhn and Kurt Schier (eds.): Fairy tales, myths, poetry. Festschrift for Friedrich von der Leyen's 90th birthday on August 19, 1963 . Beck, Munich 1963.
- Karl Otto Conrady : Völkisch-National Germanistik in Cologne. An unfestive memory. SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1990, ISBN 3-923621-66-3 (about Ernst Bertram and Friedrich von der Leyen).
- Ingeborg Glier: von der Leyen, Friedrich von der. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 433 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Michael Löffelsender: Possibilities and Limits of a National Socialist Fashion Department. German Folklore at the University of Cologne 1919–1945 . In: Geschichte im Westen 23 (2008), pp. 89–117 ( pdf ).
- Kurt Schier : Leyen, Friedrich von der. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales , Volume 8, 1996, Col. 1005-1011.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich von der Leyen in the catalog of the German National Library
- The German-Dutch research institute at the University of Cologne 1931-1945 and the establishment of the subject of Dutch studies in the early Federal Republic. By Marta Baerlecken, Ulrich Tiedau (vd Leyen passim, 27 mentions)
Notes and individual references
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 302.
- ↑ On von der Leyen in National Socialism, cf. Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 364–365.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leyen, Friedrich von der |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist and folklorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 6, 1966 |
| Place of death | Kirchseeon near Munich |