Georg Schläger

Georg Schläger (born June 27, 1870 in Weida , † March 21, 1921 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German teacher, Romance scholar and folk song researcher.

Life

Schläger received his doctorate in Romance languages from the University of Jena and has published on older French literature. He was a teacher and school director in Eschwege , but had to give up his job because of a hearing impairment. From then on he devoted himself entirely to folk song research. His main work in this area is the scientific appendix to Johann Lewalter's German Children's Song and Children's Game (1911). From 1917, in the last years of his life, he was archivist at the German Folk Song Archive in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Georg Schläger married Martha born on May 31, 1898. Pohle, with whom he had a son.

Works

Studies on the Tagelied . Inaugural dissertation Phil. Jena. Fromann (H. Pohle), Jena 1895.
with Wilhelm Cloetta : The old French prose version of the Moniage Guillaumes. 1897.
About the music and stanzas of French romances (with a musical appendix). M. Niemeyer, Halle as 1900.
Speaking exercises in modern language lessons. J. Hehner, Oberstein 1906.
Something from the German nursery rhyme. In: Journal for German Teaching 23 (1909), Issue 1, pp. 1–29.
On the rhythm of the old French epic verse. In: Journal for Romance Philology 3 (1911), p. 364 ff.
Johann Lewalter : German children's song and children's game. Collected in word and manner in Kassel from children's mouths. Treatise and remarks by Georg Schläger. Vietor, Kassel 1911.
On the history of the development of folk and children's songs: I. Sleep, child, sleep. In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Volkskunde 21 (1911), pp. 368–377 ( digitized version ) and 22 (1912), p. 79–89 ( digitized version ).
Some basic questions in children's play research. In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Volkskunde 27 (1917), 106–121 ( digitized version ) and 28 (1918), pp. 15–25 ( digitized version ).
Children's life in Baden in play and rhyme (= From Lake Constance to the Main. Heimatblätter, published by Landesverein Badische Heimat. 15). Müller, Karlsruhe 1921.
The Sleeping Beauty game. In: Journal of the Society for Folklore 35/36 (1925/1926), pp. 259–271.

literature

Fritz Böhm : Georg Schläger † . Obituary. In: Journal of the Association for Folklore 30–32 (1920–1922), p. 111 ( digitized version ).
Barbara Boock: Children's song books 1770-2000. An annotated, illustrated bibliography (= folk song studies. Volume 8). Waxmann, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8309-6819-1 , p. 141 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Eckhard John : folk song - hymn - political song (= folk song studies. Volume 3). Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-6351-3 , p. 236 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Volkmar Leonhard: Ancestors list Leonhard: The ancestors joy and suffering (= German family archive. Volume 98-100). Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1987, ISBN 3-7686-5084-7 , pp. 24-25.

personal data
SURNAME	Thug, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German teacher, romance scholar and folk song researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 27, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weida
DATE OF DEATH	March 21, 1921
Place of death	Freiburg in Breisgau