Georg Baesecke

Georg Paul Baesecke (born January 13, 1876 in Braunschweig , † May 1, 1951 in Halle ) was a German medievalist . He was professor and director of the seminar for German philology at the University of Halle .

Life

Baesecke was the son of Hermann Baesecke, the owner of the Martini pharmacy in Braunschweig. He came from a family of scholars and pastors, attended the Martino-Katharineum high school and studied classical and German philology and philosophy at the University of Göttingen as well as in Berlin and Heidelberg from 1894 to 1899 . In 1899 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with Gustav Roethe with a thesis on the language of the Opitzian poetry collections of 1624 and 1625 . From 1902 to 1904 he worked on the great Weimar Luther edition. In 1905 Baesecke received his habilitation in Berlin with a work on the Middle High German "Münchener Oswald" and became a private lecturer in German philology. In 1911 he was appointed adjunct professor in Berlin. In 1913 he was offered a position in Königsberg and held a teaching position there until he was appointed to Halle in 1921.

Baesecke researched and taught in particular on the language, grammar and literature of the Old High German phase and Germanic philology and aspects of antiquity. He made investigations into the prehistory and early history of German literature and tried to establish a continuous development of the fragmentarily transmitted Old High German literature. He examined in particular the gloss tradition , the work of larger monasteries or the influences of individual people such as Hrabanus Maurus , Walahfrid Strabo , the Bishop Arbeo von Freising or the Emperor Charlemagne . This attempt failed, however, and later research refuted his theses on Abrogans and Vocabularius and could not prove a continuity from the 8th century to the German Notker of St. Gallen .

Baesecke was successively a member of the DVP , from May 1, 1933 the NSDAP ( membership number 2.260.356) and from 1946 the LDPD . In 1938 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In 1950 Baesecke received the Brothers Grimm Prize from the Philipps University of Marburg .

Fonts

• The language of the Opitzian poetry collections from 1624 and 1625. Sounds, inflections, intonation. Dissertation, University of Göttingen, J. Krampe, Braunschweig 1899, OCLC 18540966 .
• The Munich Oswald text and treatise. (= Germanistische Abhandlungen. 28 . ; = Habilitation thesis Universität Berlin) Marcus, Breslau 1907, OCLC 265034924 .
• Reinhart Fuchs. The oldest German animal poem from the language of the 12th century. M. Niemeyer, Halle 1926, OCLC 6621768 .
• The German Abrogans and the Origin of German Literature. M. Niemeyer, Halle / S. 1930, OCLC 187043896 .
• The Vocabularius Sti.Galli in the Anglo-Saxon mission. M. Niemeyer, Halle / S. 1933, OCLC 9613290 .
• The Hildebrand song. M. Niemeyer, Halle / S. 1945, OCLC 322296 .
• Prehistory and early history of German literature. Volume 1–2 (1 half volume post mortem Ed. I. Schröbler) M. Niemeyer, Halle / S. 1950-1953, OCLC 221903995 .
• Smaller writings on the Old High German language and literature. Francke publishing house, Bern / Munich 1966, OCLC 851307008 .

literature

• Theodor Bögel :  Baesecke, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 529 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 364.
• Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 .
• Wolfgang Milde : Baesecke, Georg. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 35-36 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Baesecke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Baesecke on worldcat.org (list of publications)
• Publications by Georg Baesecke in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii
• Entry on Georg Baesecke in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• Georg Baesecke in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 35-36 .
2. ↑ Werner Schröder (Ed.): Afterword. In: Georg Baesecke: Small metric fonts. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1968.
3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 30.