Georg Hüsing

Georg Hüsing (born June 4, 1869 in Liegnitz in Silesia , † September 1, 1930 in Vienna ) was an Austrian historian and Germanist .

Life

Georg Hüsing studied ancient history , Indo-European , Semitic , Iranian and German at the universities of Breslau , Berlin and Königsberg . He received his doctorate in Königsberg in 1897 and then worked as a private scholar . In 1912 he became a private lecturer , then associate professor for the history of the ancient peoples of the Near East at the University of Vienna .

Hüsing's scientific work is accused of popularizing complicated, often constructed mythological contexts in the sense of the German national youth movement . What is striking about his writings is the self-chosen orthography and peculiar word formation.

Hüsing was the founder of the Viennese school of mythology (folklore) as well as the spiritual father and actual founder of the course 'German Education' . Hüsing co-founded the Orientalist Literature Newspaper and the Mythological Library . Together with Wolfgang Schultz , he founded Mitra. Monthly for comparative myth research , which he published until 1920.

Hüsing died on September 1, 1930 in Vienna .

Fonts (selection)

(1905) Semitic loanwords in Elamite . Leipzig: Hinrichs.
(1906) Contributions to the Cyrus legend . Berlin: Preiser.
(1908) The Zagros and its peoples. An archaeological-ethnographic sketch . Leipzig: Hinrichs.
(1909). Iranian tradition and the Aryan system . Leipzig: Hinrichs.
(1911). Krsaaspa in the serpent's body and other additions to the Iranian tradition. Leipzig: Hinrichs.
(1916) Classes of Nations in Iran . Vienna: Holder.
(1927) The German Weddings . Vienna: Eichendorff House.
(1928) Germanic deities . Vienna: Eichendorff House.
(1932) with Emma Hüsing. German spawns and songs . Vienna: Eichendorff House.
(1934) with Edmund Mudrak . The fourth margin . Vienna: Society of German Education.
(1937) with Heinrich Lessmann. The German vernacular in the light of the legend . Berlin: Stubenrauch.

literature

Olaf Bockhorn: About rituals, myths and circles of life. Folklore around the University of Vienna . In: Wolfgang Jacobeit, Hannjost Lixfeld (eds.). Folk Science. Forms and tendencies of German and Austrian folklore in the first half of the 20th century . Böhlau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-205-98208-8 , pp. 477-526.
Olaf Bockhorn: “The matter of Dr. Wolfram, Vienna ”. To fill the professorship for Germanic-German folklore at the University of Vienna . In: Mitchell Ash, Wolfram Niess, Ramon Pils (eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-568-2 , pp. 199-224.
Elfriede Moser-Rath : Hüsing, Georg . In: Rolf Wilhelm Brednich (ed.): Encyclopedia of fairy tales . Volume 6: God and the devil on the move - Hyltén-Cavallius . De Gruyter, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-11-011763-0 , Sp. 1411-1412.
Falco Pfalzgraf: Karl Tekusch as a language tutor. His role in Viennese language associations in the 20th century (= Greifswald Contributions to Linguistics, Vol. 10). Hempen, Bremen 2016.
Peter Rohrbacher: Encrypted Astronomy, Astral Mythologies, and Ancient Mexican Studies in Austria, 1910–1945 . In: Revista de Antropologia . Universidade de São Paulo, vol. 62 (2019), special issue German and German-speaking Anthropologists in Brazil , pp. 140–161 ( online ).
Leopold Schmidt : History of Austrian Folklore . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1951.

Individual evidence

^ Elfriede Moser-Rath: Hüsing, Georg . In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales , Volume 6, Col. 1411.
↑ Olaf Bockhorn: Of rituals, myths and circles of life. Folklore around the University of Vienna . In: Wolfgang Jacobeit , Hannjost Lixfeld (eds.). Folk Science. Forms and tendencies of German and Austrian folklore in the first half of the 20th century . Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 477-526, here p. 495.
^ Leopold Schmidt: History of Austrian Folklore . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1951, p. 135.
↑ Olaf Bockhorn: “The matter of Dr. Wolfram, Vienna ”. To fill the professorship for Germanic-German folklore at the University of Vienna . In: Mitchell Ash, Wolfram Niess, Ramon Pils (eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, Göttingen 2010, pp. 199–224, here p. 202.
↑ Olaf Bockhorn: Of rituals, myths and circles of life. Folklore around the University of Vienna . In: Wolfgang Jacobeit, Hannjost Lixfeld (eds.). Folk Science. Forms and tendencies of German and Austrian folklore in the first half of the 20th century . Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 477-526, here p. 493.

personal data
SURNAME	Hüsing, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Austrian historian and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Liegnitz , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	September 1, 1930
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Elfriede Moser-Rath: Hüsing, Georg . In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales , Volume 6, Col. 1411.

[2] Olaf Bockhorn: Of rituals, myths and circles of life. Folklore around the University of Vienna . In: Wolfgang Jacobeit , Hannjost Lixfeld (eds.). Folk Science. Forms and tendencies of German and Austrian folklore in the first half of the 20th century . Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 477-526, here p. 495.

[3] Leopold Schmidt: History of Austrian Folklore . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1951, p. 135.

[4] Olaf Bockhorn: “The matter of Dr. Wolfram, Vienna ”. To fill the professorship for Germanic-German folklore at the University of Vienna . In: Mitchell Ash, Wolfram Niess, Ramon Pils (eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, Göttingen 2010, pp. 199–224, here p. 202.

[5] Olaf Bockhorn: Of rituals, myths and circles of life. Folklore around the University of Vienna . In: Wolfgang Jacobeit, Hannjost Lixfeld (eds.). Folk Science. Forms and tendencies of German and Austrian folklore in the first half of the 20th century . Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 477-526, here p. 493.