Hans Pyritz
Hans Werner Pyritz (born September 15, 1905 in Berlin ; † March 23, 1958 in Hamburg ) was a German Germanist and Goethe researcher .
Life
Pyritz attended the Königstädtisches Gymnasium in Berlin from 1915 to 1924 and studied German philology and Middle Latin , history and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin from 1924 , where he received his doctorate in 1930 with Julius Petersen with a thesis on Paul Fleming's love poetry. Even before 1933, Pyritz had made no secret of his anti-democratic sentiments and, like his teacher Gustav Roethe, moved around the “ League of the Upright ”. In 1933 he joined the SA , in 1934 became an honorary lecturer for the “Office of Literature Maintenance” in Alfred Rosenberg's office ( Rosenberg's office ), in 1934 a member of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association and in 1941 a member of the NSDAP . His National Socialist convictions undoubtedly helped his future career. After working as an assistant at the University of Königsberg (1931–1934) and at the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1935–1941), he received his habilitation in 1940 with a thesis on Goethe and Marianne von Willemer . In the trial lecture on the subject of Goethe's popular consciousness , he used the opportunity to raise his profile in dealing with the popular concept of National Socialist ideology. In 1941 he held a chair in Königsberg and in 1942 he succeeded Julius Petersen as full professor at Berlin University. Dismissed by the Soviet military government in December 1945 because of his proximity to the Nazi regime , Pyritz was initially appointed as a substitute in 1947 and finally appointed to the chair of German literary studies at the University of Hamburg in 1950 . Since 1948 he also headed the Hamburg office of the Goethe dictionary .
Pyritz was one of the most influential literary scholars of his time and at times published the journal Euphorion . His main research interests were in the field of Goethe and Petrarkism research . The university professor Pyritz was - at least after 1945 - considered difficult by many of his students; Peter Rühmkorf , who studied with Pyritz at the beginning of the 1950s, even described him as a “bad student smuggler”.
literature
- Horst Gronemeyer: Pyritz, Hans . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 267-268 .
- Reiner Bölhoff: Pyritz, Hans Werner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 26 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Reiner Bölhoff: Pyritz, Hans Werner. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1445-1447.
- Christa Hempel-Küter: German studies between 1925 and 1955. Studies on the world of science using the example of Hans Pyritz. Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2000. Habilitation thesis Universität Hamburg 1997
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Pyritz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christa Hempel-Küter: German Studies between 1925 and 1955 , Berlin, 2000, pp. 71–79
- ↑ Cf. Peter Rühmkorf: The Years You Know. Seizures and memories. Edited by Wolfgang Rasch. Rowohlt, Hamburg, 1999, p. 116f.
- ↑ "The cicadas sang differently". Peter Rühmkorf at the Berlin Literary Colloquium. Conversation with Walter Höllerer on March 16, 1983. In: Language in the technical age. Berlin. Issue 96, December 1985, p. 322.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pyritz, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pyritz, Hans Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist and Goethe researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1958 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |