Harry Maync

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Harry Maync , also erroneously spelled Harry Mayne (born September 6, 1874 in Berlin , † March 19, 1947 in Marburg ), was a German specialist in German . From 1907 he was professor at the University of Bern and from 1929 to 1939 Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Marburg . He was a Goethe specialist.

Life

The banker's son Maync attended the Luisenstädtische Gymnasium in Berlin and began studying German, history, classical philology and philosophy in 1894. He received his doctorate in Berlin in 1899 on Ludwig Uhland's youth poetry. In 1902 he published an Eduard Mörike biography. After a brief activity as editor of the classic editions of the Bibliographical Institute in Leipzig (1904) he became a private lecturer in Marburg (since 1905).

In 1907 he went to Bern to succeed Oskar Walzel . As a supplement to the biography, a three-volume Mörike edition was published in 1909. He edited Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's theatrical broadcast for the first time in 1911 after it had been found in the estate of Barbara Schulthess in Bern . In addition to Goethe and Mörike, he gave a. a. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , Gottfried Keller and Karl Leberecht Immermann . 1920–1925, based on Wilhelm Dilthey , he wrote biographies about Detlev von Liliencron , Immermann, Keller and C. F. Meyer, and in 1922 founded the series Switzerland in German Intellectual Life . Maync was rector of the University of Bern in 1926/27. As a literary historian, he wanted to understand the appropriation and development of world views and ideas by the poet personality. His German national sentiment grew in Switzerland and led to Heinrich Heine's negative assessment in the last edition (1944) of his Mörike book.

In 1929 he followed Ernst Elster in the Marburg ordinariate. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

Maync was co-editor of the Language and Poetry series with Samuel Singer . Research on linguistics and literature .

family

Harry Maync was the son of Carl Wilhelm Maync (1835–1902), secret accountant at the Reichsbank in Berlin, and Katharina Henke (1848–1917). In 1908 he married Ida von Steiger (1884–1978), daughter of Adolf von Steiger , and had four children with her, including their son Wolf Maync . From 1932 Harry Maync was married to his sister-in-law Magda Haack (1892-1878) and had a daughter with her.

Works (selection)

  • RM Rilke and his "way of love and death". Attempt of a psychological-aesthetic literature analysis. B. G. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1916.
  • The development of German literary studies. P. Haupt, Bern 1927.
  • Goethe and Bismarck. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1932.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5774, p. 365 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Maync, Harry William Carl, in: Professor catalog of the Philipps University of Marburg
personal data
SURNAME Maync, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayne, Harry (misspelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1947
Place of death Marburg