Hanns Fischer (Medievalist)

Hanns Fischer (born May 27, 1928 in Nuremberg ; † August 6, 1968 ) was a German professor for German medieval studies at the University of Tübingen .

Life

From 1947 Hanns Fischer studied German and classical philology for five semesters at the University of Heidelberg . In 1950 he moved to the University of Tübingen and later to Munich. After his state examination for teaching in 1952, he completed his legal clerkship . In 1953 he received his doctorate with his knitting studies , was a scientific assistant to Hugo Kuhn and was involved in the rebuilding of the German seminar in Munich, especially the library. After his habilitation in 1960, he received a call to the University of Tübingen as full professor for older German language and literature in 1963 . In 1967 he turned down an offer at the University of Hamburg . In 1968 Hanns Fischer had a fatal accident in the Swiss Alps.

research

Fischer systematically researched late medieval literature, and Fischer's work and work around fairy poetry is particularly important . Here he carried out basic research; in his monograph Studies on German Fairy Poetry , published in 1968, the genus of fairy tales , formal descriptions, and their inclusion in main categories and traditions were systematically described for the first time, and the entire epoch was examined for the first time. His basic research had a great influence on other areas of Germanistic late medieval research: with his self-image as a historian, he clearly separated the diversity of the novelistic texts into independent genres. He was a profound connoisseur and lover of medieval manuscripts and contributed to the creation of the Munich catalog of medieval manuscripts.

Publications (selection)

• Knitting Studies: A Contribution to the History of Literature in the 13th Century , Munich 1953
• Studies on German fairy poetry , Tübingen 1968. Second revised and expanded edition, obtained from Johannes Janota, Tübingen 1983
• as editor: Vier Erzählungen / Herrand von Wildonie , Tübingen 1959
• as editor: Fifteen little verse stories / Der Stricker , Tübingen 1960
• as editor: Hans Folz: Die Reimpaarsprüche. , Munich 1961 (= Munich texts and studies on German literature of the Middle Ages. Volume 1).
• as publisher: A Swiss Kleinepiksammlung from the 15th century (21 fables, fables and stories from the 15th century; Cod. 643 of the St.Gallen Abbey Library), Tübingen 1965
• as publisher: The German fairy poetry of the 15th century , Munich 1966
• as publisher: Tables for the Old High German Reading Book , Tübingen 1966
• as publisher: Fluctuating stories of the German Middle Ages (selection and translation), Munich 1967 (together with his wife)
• Design stories in "Meier Helmbrecht" ; in: Contributions (Tübingen) 79 (1957)
• New research on German poetry of the late Middle Ages (1230-1500) ; in: German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history 31 (1957)
• To the generic form of "Pfaffen Amis" ; in: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 78 (1958)
• Problems and tasks of literary research on the German late Middle Ages ; in: Germanic-Romanic monthly 9 (1959)
• A forgotten Swabian song collection from the 15th century ; in: Journal of German Antiquity and German Literature 91 (1962)
• Information point for editing projects on medieval German texts ; in: Monthly booklets for German teaching, German language and literature 54 (1962)
• Medieval German manuscripts from the Munich University Library (II) ; in: Articles (Tübingen) 84 (1962)
• Jacob Käbitz and his misunderstood song book ; in: Euphorion 56 (1962)
• On Johannes Hartlieb's Baderbuch ; in: Contributions to the History of the German Language and Literature 84 (1963)
• Hans Folz: Old and new on the history of his life and his writings ; in: Journal of German Antiquity and German Literature 95 (1966)
• “The Philosopher's Stone”: An unpublished draft poem by Hans Folz ; in: Journal for German Philology 86 (1967)
• A new text witness to the “Minnelehre” Johann von Konstanz ; in: Journal of German Antiquity and German Literature 97 (1968)
• The attack at the Nördlinger scarlet race: remarks on a forgotten motto from 1422 ; in: Catholy, Eckehard / Hellmann, Winifried (eds.): Festschrift for Klaus Ziegler; Tubingen 1968
• German literature and the Latin Middle Ages ; in: Glier, Ingeborg / Hahn, Gerhard (Hgg.): Work - Type - Situation: Studies on poetological conditions in older German literature. Hugo Kuhn on his 60th birthday. Stuttgart 1969.

literature

• Michael Curschmann: Hanns Fischer: 1928–1968 . In: Yearbook for International German Studies . 1 (1969), pp. 183-190.
• Hanns Fischer: Strickerstudien: A contribution to the literary history of the 13th century , Munich 1953.
• Hanns Fischer: Studies on German fairy poetry , Tübingen 1968.