Günter Mieth (Germanist)

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Günter Mieth (born October 28, 1931 in Weigsdorf-Köblitz ; † August 21, 2013 in Leipzig ) was a German German philologist and literary historian who taught at the University of Leipzig .

Life

Mieth trained as an industrial clerk and then became a teacher and deputy headmaster. From 1954 to 1958 he studied German, education and philosophy at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1964.

In 1969 he became head of the German literary history department at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and from 1969 to 1972 he moved to the University of Algiers as a lecturer and chef de la Section d'Allemand . In 1976 Mieth completed his habilitation and was appointed full professor for German literary history. Until his retirement in 1992, Mieth was deputy director for research in the section for German and literary studies at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. In 1991/92 he was given a visiting professorship at the University of Besançon.

Günter Mieth headed the chair for German literature of the 18th century at the University of Leipzig for 15 years .

Works (selection)

Günter Mieth's grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig
  • with Klaus-Detlef Müller, Gerhard Pasternack, Wulf Segebrecht: Historicity and topicality . Studies on German literature since the romantic era. Festschrift for Hans-Joachim Mähl on his 65th birthday. Tübingen 1988.
  • with Elmar Schenkel, Wolfgang F. Schwarz, Alfonso de Toro: The magic typewriter . Essays on the tradition of the fantastic in literature. Frankfurt am Main 1998.
  • with Christa Grimm and Ilse Nagelschmidt: Concepts and perspectives of German literature . Leipzig 1999.
  • with Christa Grimm and Ilse Nagelschmidt: Diversity of directions. Analysis and communication of cultural identity in the field of German literature . Leipzig 2001.
  • with Anneliese Klingenberg, Katharina Middell, Mathias Middell: Saxon Enlightenment . Leipzig 2001.
  • with Bärbel Raschke, Ludwig Stockinger: Embossing and traces: Festgabe for Günter Mieth on the 70th birthday . Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2001, ISBN 3-935-69338-9
  • with Gabriele Rommel: Light of the Earth Salt of Heaven - topographical logs of a mining landscape . Catalog for the exhibition in the Novalis-Schloß Oberwiederstedt. Research center for early romanticism and the Novalis Museum at Schloss Oberwiederstedt 2006.
  • with Christa Grimm and Ilse Nagelschschmidt: Exemplary authors and texts from German literary history in intercultural communication . Leipzig: Leipzig University Press 2008.
  • with Günther Öhlschläger, Hans Ulrich Schmid, Dirk Werle: Leipziger Germanistik. Contributions to specialist history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lvz-trauer.de ( Memento from September 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ CV on club-carriere.com
  3. ^ Günter Mieth, Bärbel Raschke, Ludwig Stockinger: Coins and traces: Festgabe für Günter Mieth for his 70th birthday, p. 91. Retrieved on September 10, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Mieth, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Weigsdorf-Koeblitz
DATE OF DEATH August 21st, 2013
Place of death Leipzig