Hans-Joachim Mähl

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Hans-Joachim Mähl , also Hans Joachim Mähl , (born on May 3, 1923 in Flensburg ; died on March 31, 2001 near Kiel ) was a German literary scholar and university professor . He devoted himself mainly to Romanticism and published the works of Novalis .

life and work

Mähl dedicated almost his entire scientific life's work to the work of Novalis and German Romanticism . In 1965 his comprehensive study on The Idea of ​​the Golden Age in the Work of Novalis appeared , which Robert Charlier called the standard work. In it he described the philosophical background of romantic longing. Mähl created the first complete and critical publication of the Novalis Fichte studies . He was invited to participate in the Novalis Complete Edition, which Paul Kluckhohn and Richard Samuel founded in the 1950s and which Mähl could largely complete in 1999.

He worked for many years at the University of Regensburg . In 1971 he accepted a call from the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , where he took over a chair for German literary studies. In Kiel, too, he devoted himself primarily to Romanticism, Novalis and literary utopia.

Mähl's work led to a number of other Novalis editions in other languages. In 1988 a festschrift was published in his honor, and in 1990 he was retired. Even after that he remained active in research and was responsible for a new Reclam edition of Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools in 1998 .

rank

“A poet would have liked to call the Germanist from Kiel the senior gardener of the blue flower: The edition of the works of the archromantic Novalis ('Hymnen an die Nacht'), which he oversees, has grown into a monument over the decades and is constantly revised, but also his exemplary studies the philosophical background of the romantic yearning made the gaunt, unpretentious researcher the secret doyen of his guild. "

- Der Spiegel : Died: Hans-Joachim Mähl, N. 15/2001

Publications

Works by Novalis

  • Fonts. The works of Friedrich von Hardenberg. Founded by Paul Kluckhohn and Richard Samuel . Edited by Richard Samuel in collaboration with Hans-Joachim Mähl and Gerhard Schulz . Historical-critical edition in four volumes, a volume of materials and a supplementary volume in four sub-volumes with the literary estate of young people and other newly emerged manuscripts.
    • Vol. 1: The poetic work. Edited by Paul Kluckhohn and Richard Samuel with the collaboration of Heinz Ritter and Gerhard Schulz. Stuttgart 1960. 3., ext. and verb. Edition 19XX.
    • Vol. 2: The philosophical work I. Ed. By Richard Samuel in collaboration with Hans-Joachim Mähl and Gerhard Schulz. Stuttgart 1965. 3., ext. and verb. 1981 edition.
    • Vol. 3: The philosophical work II. Ed. By Richard Samuel in collaboration with Hans-Joachim Mähl and Gerhard Schulz. Stuttgart 1968. 3rd edition reviewed and revised by the editors. 1983.
    • Vol. 4: Diaries, correspondence, contemporary testimonies. Edited by Richard Samuel in collaboration with Hans-Joachim Mähl and Gerhard Schulz. Stuttgart 1975. 2nd edition 1998.
    • Vol. 5: Materials and registers. Edited by Hans-Joachim Mähl and Richard Samuel. Stuttgart 1988.
    • Vol. 6: The literary youth estate (1788–1791) and entries in the register (1791–1793). Edited by Hans-Joachim Mähl in collaboration with Martina Eicheldinger. Editing of the family books of Ludwig Rommel. Volume 1: Text. Stuttgart 1998. Volume 2: Commentary. Stuttgart 1999. Volume 3: Writings and documents from work, 2006.
  • Works, diaries and letters of Friedrich von Hardenberg . Edited by Hans-Joachim Mähl and Richard Samuel. This edition was also published under license in 1999 by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt and again in 2002 by Carl Hanser. The ISB numbers given refer to the latest editions.
  • Works in one volume . Edited by Hans-Joachim Mähl and Richard Samuel. Commented by Hans-Joachim Simm with the assistance of Agathe Jais. Munich / Vienna 1981 (Hanser Library). Paperback edition of the 3rd edition 1984: Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-02383-X .
  • Das Allgemeine Brouillon , materials for encyclopedia 1798/99. Romance studies. 1. Novalis. A historical-critical edition, ed. and with an introduction by Hans-Joachim Mähl. Meiner, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-7873-1088-6 .

Further book publications

  • The idea of ​​the golden age in the work of Novalis . Studies to determine the essence of the early romantic utopia and its preconditions for the history of ideas. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1965, second edition: de Gruyter 1994, ISBN 978-3-484-10212-5 .
  • (Ed.) Together with by Wolfgang Frühwald and Walter Müller-Seidel : Problems of the letter edition . Colloquium of the German Research Foundation. Tutzing Castle on Lake Starnberg. 8-11 September 1975. Lectures and contributions to the discussion. Boldt, Boppard 1977.
  • (Ed.) Studies during Goethe's time , Erich Trunz on his 75th birthday, ed. by Hans-Joachim Mähl and Eberhard Mannack. Winter, Heidelberg 1981, ISBN 3-533-03014-8 .
  • (Ed.) Sebastian Brant : The Ship of Fools . Transferred from HA Junghans. Revised and reissued with notes and an afterword by Hans-Joachim Mähl. Reprint of the 1998 edition with bibliographical additions. Reclam, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-15-000899-9 ( Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 899).

Contributions (selection)

  • An unpublished Kant study by Novalis. In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft and Geistesgeschichte 36, 1962, pp. 36–68.
  • Novalis' Wilhelm-Meister-Studien of the year 1797. In: Neophilologus 47, 1963, pp. 286-305.
  • Novalis quotations in Goethe's ›Talks‹? Corrigenda to Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer's “Communications on Goethe”. In: Euphorion 39, 1965, pp. 150-159.
  • Novalis: Hemsterhuis Studies (1965). In: Research on Romanticism since 1945 . Edited by Klaus Peter, Königstein / Taunus 1980 (Neue Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek, Vol. 93), pp. 180–197.
  • Hardenberg, noble family from Lower Saxony. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 651.
  • The poetic state. Utopia and utopian reflection among the early romantics. In: Utopia research. Interdisciplinary studies on modern utopia . Edited by Wilhelm Voßkamp . Frankfurt am Main 1985, Vol. 3 (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Vol. 1159), pp. 273-302.
  • Alienation and transparency. On the theoretical justification of the ›tropical and puzzle language‹ at Novalis. In: Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift , 1992, pp. 161–182.
  • Renewal of religion under the sign of humanity. Unpublished letters from Albert Schweitzer to Kurt Leese . In: Zeitschrift für Theologiegeschichte , 4 (1997), pp. 82–113.

Festschrift

  • Historicity and topicality . Studies on German literature since the romantic era. Festschrift for Hans-Joachim Mähl on his 65th birthday. Edited by Klaus-Detlef Müller, Gerhard Pasternack, Wulf Segebrecht and Ludwig Stockinger. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-484-10613-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Charlier: Heros and Messias: Hölderlin's messianic mythogenesis and Jewish thought. Königshausen & Neumann, 1999, p. 30.
  2. ↑ Manfred Frank: What does ›early romantic philosophy‹ mean? Yearbook of the Friedrich Schlegel Society, year 2009.
  3. ^ Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: History of the Institute, Institute for Modern German Literature and Media, accessed on August 25, 2015
  4. ^ Violetta L. Waibel: Novalis: Fichte Studies, ed. By Jane Keller. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2004, accessed August 25, 2015
  5. ^ Gerhard Schulz: In memory of Hans-Joachim Mähl. In: Novalis. Poetry and Poetics . Niemeyer, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Mähl, Hans-Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mähl, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2001
Place of death near Kiel