Gustav Ehrismann

Memorial plaque for Gustav Ehrismann at the historical institute of the University of Greifswald

Gustav Ehrismann's grave in the Bergfriedhof in Heidelberg

Gustav Adolph Ehrismann (born October 8, 1855 in Pforzheim , † September 9, 1941 in Hamburg-Othmarschen ) was a German Germanic Medievalist . He was a full professor at the University of Greifswald .

Life

Gustav Adolph Ehrismann studied philology in Heidelberg and Leipzig from 1875 to 1881. He turned to this particularly of German philology, in which he in 1880 on The Renner of Hugo von Trimberg doctorate. Since 1881 he lived as a private scholar in Pforzheim because he had health problems. He wrote several articles for the magazine " Germania " and returned in 1894 to Heidelberg. In the years 1881 to 1894 Ehrismann dealt in detail with the texts of all older Germanic and German literature as well as with medieval philosophy and church literature. One of his well-known works therefore deals with the “history of German literature up to the end of the Middle Ages”. In 1897 he received his habilitation in Heidelberg, where he became an associate professor in 1901 and then a full professor in Greifswald in 1909. He stayed here until his retirement in 1924. He later moved to Berlin and finally to Hamburg, where he died in 1941.

In 1923 he was elected a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , 1924 of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and 1932 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Works (selection)

• History of German literature up to the end of the Middle Ages . Beck, Munich 1918–1935 ( digitized version ).
• Studies on Rudolf von Ems. Contributions to the history of rhetoric and ethics in the Middle Ages . Winter, Heidelberg 1919 ( digitized version ).

literature

Essays

• Erich Gülzow : In memory of our teacher Gustav Ehrismann. CH Beck, Munich 1943.
• Otfrid Ehrismann : The quiet of the province. Gustav Ehrismann, Germanist in Greifswald (1909–1924). In: Rolf Bräuer (Ed.): Mediävistische literary history writing. Gustav Ehrismann in memory. (Symposium Greifswald, September 18-23, 1991). Kümmerle, Göppingen 1992, ISBN 3-87452-814-6 , pp. 17-50.

Lexicon article

• Eduard Neumann:  Ehrismann, Gustav Adolph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 359 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ehrismann, Gustav Adolph. In: Dagmar Drüll (Ed.): Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803–1932. Springer, Berlin et al. 1986, ISBN 978-3-642-70761-2 , p. 57.
• Hugo Steger: Ehrismann, Gustav. In: Bernd Ottnad (Ed.): Badische Biographien , New Series. Volume 4, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-17-010731-3 , pp. 70-72 ( full text ).
• 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 , pp. 418-420.
• Alexander Sager: Ehrismann, Gustav Adolph. In: Albrecht Classen (Ed.): Handbook of Medieval Studies. Terms – Methods – Trends. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-018409-9 , Vol. 3, pp. 2280-2283.

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Ehrismann  - Sources and full texts

• Publications by Gustav Ehrismann in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii
• Literature by and about Gustav Ehrismann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Neumann:  Ehrismann, Gustav Adolph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 359 f. ( Digitized version ).
2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Gustav Ehrismann. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 18, 2015 . 
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. 74.
4. ↑ Member entry of Gustav Ehrismann at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 30, 2017.