Fritz Böhm (folklorist)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Victor “Fritz” Böhm (born September 2, 1880 in Berlin ; † November 20, 1943 there ) was a German folklorist and grammar school teacher.

Life

Fritz Böhm, the son of the historian and grammar school teacher Willy Böhm (1846–1882) and Pauline geb. Reinhardt, attended the Sophien-Gymnasium in Berlin and after graduating (September 24, 1899) studied classical philology at the Berlin University . After the on December 8, 1904 Rigorosum at Hermann Diels and John Vahlen had insisted he was on March 4, 1905, a dissertation on the creeds of the Pythagorean Dr. phil. PhD ; he dedicated the study to the memory of Erwin Rohde . On November 21, 1905, Böhm passed the teaching examination in Latin and Greek; on February 19, 1906, a supplementary examination in history followed.

From April 1, 1906 to March 31, 1907, Böhm completed the seminar year at the Berlin Pedagogical Seminar and the Askanisches Gymnasium . On April 1, 1907, he began the probationary year at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium , where he was employed as a senior teacher on April 1, 1908. During the First World War he was awarded the Cross of Merit for War Aid on February 4, 1918 . On October 1, 1931, Böhm went to the Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg and, after six months, switched to the Progymnasium on April 1, 1932. In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . On April 1, 1940, he returned to the Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium, where he taught until his death.

In addition to the school service, Böhm devoted himself to scientific studies. His research focus was on ancient religion and German folklore . He has written numerous monographs and essays as well as articles for Paulys Realenzyklopädie der Classical Antiquity (RE). In the 1920s he was the second chairman of the Berlin Society for Folklore , from 1928 head of the Berlin Central Office of the Atlas of German Folklore and editor of the Zeitschrift für Volkskunde up to Volume 46 (1936/1937).

Fonts

  • De symbolis Pythagorean . Berlin 1905 (dissertation)
  • The writing of Giglio Gregorio Giraldi on the symbols of Pythagoras . Berlin 1913 (school program)
  • Selection from the humanists on German folklore . Leipzig 1925
  • Ancient Greek and Roman religion . Leipzig 1927
  • Folklore. The atlas of German folklore for guidance . Berlin 1931
  • Congratulatory customs. In: Folklore gifts. John Meier offered on his seventieth birthday , Berlin: de Gruyter 1934, pp. 25–33.
  • Birthday and name day in German folk custom . Berlin 1938
  • with Hedwig Lüdeke: The modern Greek lament for the dead . Berlin 1947

literature

  • Eduard Schmidt : Roman portraits from the end of the republic . Berlin 1944, p. 52
  • Archive for literature and folk poetry . Volume 1 (1949), p. 228; 236
  • Heinz Stallmann: The Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium zu Schöneberg 1890-1945 . Berlin 1965, p. 81

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personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehm, Fritz; Böhm, Friedrich Wilhelm Victor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1943
Place of death Berlin