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Julius Zacher

The Germanistic Reference Library is a multi-volume, literary work founded by the German Germanist Julius Zacher (* 1816; † 1887). Written between 1869 and 1884, the volumes were published between 1875 and 1930 by the publishing house of the bookstore of the orphanage.

With its posthumous publication date, the handbook series had something in common with all other handbooks initiated by Zacher: none was published in full during his lifetime, but he always tried hard to get support from the Prussian Ministry, as in a letter to the Minister for Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs Heinrich von Mühler on June 4, 1868, when he recommended the planned series including an edition of the magazine for German philology for reading for higher education institutions, whereupon a positive announcement was made in the Centralblatt for the entire teaching administration in Prussia . The aim of the series, following the example of Franz Pfeiffer ( German Classics of the Middle Ages ), was to "facilitate the study of our older literature through manuals and annotated editions of Middle High German poets ." and asked for all-round support. It is noticeable that the content of the announcements hardly differed from his own letters.

As a source edition, especially of Middle High German, which was also accessible to laypeople, the following volumes should have a far-reaching impact, which was foreseen in the first benevolent announcements as early as the middle of the 19th century. Even in the 21st century it was used to accompany a new translation of the Edda from Icelandic . “Due to the detailed nature of the lemmas, it is the authoritative reference work on Eddic vocabulary.” “Like Boer's text edition, his commentary is also out of date in places, but offers a number of interesting suggestions for interpretation, for example on the composition of the songs. Compared to Gering-Sijmons' commentary on the passage, the emphasis is more on commenting on the poems than the entire text. The extensive discussions of source-critical problems lead z. Sometimes in very complicated, 'Heusleresque' reconstruction models with several non-handed down preliminary and intermediate stages. "

expenditure

  • Germanistic reference library, Vol. 1, Walther von der Vogelweide . Edited and explained by Wilhelm Wilmanns , Orphanage Bookstore, Halle 1869.
  • German Reference Library, Vol. 2, Kudrun. Edited and explained by Ernst Martin , Orphanage Bookstore, Halle 1902.
  • Germanistic reference library, Vol. 3, Vulfila [Ulfilas] or The Gothic Bible . With the corresponding Greek text and with critical and explanatory commentary together with the calendar, the Skeireins and Gothic documents. Edited by Ernst Bernhardt , orphanage bookshop, Halle 1875.
  • Germanistic reference library; Vol. 4, Savior. Edited by Eduard Sievers , Orphanage Bookstore, Halle 1878.
  • Germanistic reference library, Vol. 5, Gospel Book / Otfrid . Ed. U. declared v. Oskar Erdmann , Orphanage Bookstore, Halle 1882.
  • Germanistic reference library, vol. 6.1, Iwein, the knight with the lion ( Hartmann von Aue ) text, bookstore of the orphanage, Halle 1891.
  • Germanistic reference library, vol. 6.2, Iwein, the knight with the lion (Hartmann von Aue) notes, bookstore of the orphanage, Halle 1892.
  • Germanistic Reference Library, Vol. 7, The songs of the Edda. (2 volumes) Ed. By Barend Sijmons and Hugo Gering , Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, Halle 1901–1906. (The last commentary was published in 1930)
  • Germanist Reference Library, Vol. 8, Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival and Titurel. Ed. U. edit by Ernst Martin , bookstore of the orphanage, Halle 1903 (unchanged ND Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1976)
  • Germanistic reference library, Die altenglische Heldendichtung / 1. Bēowulf. Published by Richard C. Boer , Orphanage Bookstore, Halle 1912.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Accessed May 23, 2012 Zacher. In: zeno.org. 1, accessed January 14, 2015 .
  2. ^ Germanistic reference library. (Journal, magazine, 1875). In: worldcat.org. August 1, 2021, accessed on January 14, 2015 .
  3. ↑ German Reference Library ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  4. ^ Uwe Meves: German Philology at the Prussian Universities in the 19th Century: Documents on the Institutionalization Process. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, p. 1000.
  5. ^ Centralblatt for the entire teaching administration in Prussia. 1868, p. 468.
  6. ↑ Originally: Zeitschrift für das Gymnasialwesen, 19, 1865, quoted from: Silvia Ranawake: For students and lay people. Walter editors from the second half of the 19th century. In: Thomas Bein (Ed.): Walther Von Der Vogelweide: Text criticism and edition. De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 13–31, here: p. 22.
  7. ↑ For example: Old Prussian monthly. Edited by the Association for the History of East and West Prussia, Volume 5, Königsberg 1868, p. 286.
  8. ^ New yearbooks for philology and education. Volume 100, 1869, p. 407.
  9. ↑ Monthly for literature, art and culture. Volumes 73-74, 1868. p. 409.
  10. ↑ Heidelberg Yearbooks of Literature . 62 vol., 1868, p. 917.
  11. ↑ Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung initially for Catholic Germany. Volume 16, ed. by Theodor Wiedemann , Vienna 1869, p. 365.
  12. ^ EG Stanley: The Date of Beowulf : Some Doubts and No Conclusions. In: Colin Chase: The Dating of Beowulf. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1997, p. 207.
  13. ↑ Karl Mortensen, A. Clinton Crowell (Ed.): A Handbook of Norse Mythology. Dover Publications, Mineola, NY 2003, p. VII.
  14. ↑ Dictionaries . In: Study bibliography on Old Nordic Studies. Institute for Scandinavian Studies / Fen Studies. University of Cologne . Retrieved May 26, 2012.
  15. ↑ Edda poetry . In: Study bibliography on Old Nordic Studies. Institute for Scandinavian Studies / Fen Studies. University of Cologne . Retrieved May 26, 2012.