Hans Henning (Germanist)

This article concerns a German German scholar and literary historian; for the Germanist and literary historian of the same name (1927–2015) see Hans HF Henning .

Hans Henning (born February 13, 1874 in Braunschweig , † after 1940) was a German German philologist , literary historian and teacher .

Life

Hans Henning was born on February 13, 1874 in Braunschweig and grew up there and in Uelzen and Hameln. He studied at the universities of Jena and Berlin and graduated with a doctorate. Henning then worked as an editor for the "Leipziger Abendzeitung", the " Magazin für Litteratur " and Meyers Kleines Konversations-Lexikon . He also wrote as a theater critic. In 1907, Henning became a teacher at the renowned state grammar school Birkenruh near Wenden in the governorate of Livonia , which was part of the Russian Empire, and stayed there until 1910. After that, Henning became a private lecturer in philosophy at the Technical University of Braunschweig . When the First World War broke out in 1914, Henning became a soldier and remained active until the end of the war in 1918. After the war, Henning became a teacher and finally school director at the Königstädtisches Gymnasium in Berlin. Hans Henning was on friendly terms with the writer Friedrich Spielhagen and his family for many years. He used the pseudonym Hans Ernst.

Hans Henning's death date and place have not been determined.

plant

In 1908, Hans Henning was the first to publish a biographical compilation and material collection on Karl Philipp Moritz . The biography of Friedrich Spielhagen, which Hans Henning wrote, was attested "thoroughness and conscientiousness", but also a "benevolent partisanship" based on the friendship with the writer. The history of German literature, founded by Erich Schulze, who died in World War I in 1915, was expanded and continued by Hans Henning and was published in its fourth edition in 1940.

Publications

• Pied Piper v. Hameln , Erz.1893.
• Eduard Grisebach , 1895, 2nd edition 1897.
• Friedrich Spielhagen , 1899, biography. New edition published by L. Staackmann, Leipzig 1910.
• On the genesis of the 7 Years War , 1899.
• Critical foundation of a cosmic philosophy I , 1903.
• Eduard Grisebach in his life and work , 1905.
• Karl Philipp Moritz. A contribution to the history of the Goethe era , 1908.
• Problem of Philosophy , 1914.
• The experience of the poetic parable and its origin . In: Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History . Vol. 13, 1919, No. 4, pp. 371-396.
• German literature. History and major works in the basics , Ziemsen Verlag , Wittenberg, 1923. 3rd expanded and continued edition of the literary history of German literature founded by Erich Schulze († 1915) and published in 1911 by Hofmann and Co.. The development and main works of German literature . The 4th edition, also continued by Henning, appeared in 1940.

As editor

• Anton Reiser by Karl Philipp Moritz. With an introduction and comments by Hans Henning. Reclam's Universal Library, Leipzig, 1906.
• Poems by Ferdinand Freiligrath . With an introduction and comments by Hans Henning. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig, Vienna, 1909.
• Memories from my life , from Friedrich Spielhagen . With an introduction and comments by Hans Henning. L. Staackmann, Leipzig, 1911.
• Plimplamplasko, the high spirit, today genius , by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger , Johann Caspar Lavater , Jakob Sarasin . With an introduction by Hans Henning. 1913.
• The Wulfila of the Bibliotheca in Wolfenbüttel . With an introduction by Hans Henning. C. Erich Behrens Verlag, Hamburg, 1913.
• Parerga and Paralipomena , by Arthur Schopenhauer . Insel-Verlag, 1916.

literature

• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Volume 25. 1903.
• German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual. Volume XVI. Founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Edited by Lutz Hagestedt. De Gruyter , Berlin and Boston 2011 ff. ISBN 978-3-11-023162-5 .
• Hartmut Walravens : Julius Kurth (1870–1949): Letters to the poet Börries von Münchhausen (1874–1945) , 2017.
• Rosa-Maria Zinken: The novel as a contemporary document: Bourgeois liberalism in Friedrich Spielhagen's "Die von Hohenstein" (1863/64) , Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1991. ISBN 978-363-144216-6 .
• Henrike Lamers: Hero or World? On the novel by Friedrich Spielhagen . Bouvier, Bonn 1991, ISBN 3-416-02314-5 .

Single receipts

1. ↑ Thomas P. Saine: The aesthetic theodicy. Karl Philipp Moritz and the philosophy of the 18th century. Fink Verlag, Munich, 1971, p. 175.
2. ↑ Westermanns Monatshefte , Vol. 110, 1911. P. 296.