Heinrich Felix Schmid
Heinrich Felix Schmid (born August 14, 1896 in Berlin , † February 6, 1963 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian Slavist .
Life
Heinrich Felix Schmid spent the first five years of his life in Berlin . From 1902 the family traveled a lot through Germany , Italy and Switzerland , which had a positive cultural influence on Schmid's childhood. He attended the German School in Rome for two winters , otherwise he was taught by his parents. From childhood on, in addition to his native German, he also spoke Italian and French well, was familiar with Latin and acquired his first knowledge of Russian .
After the death of his father, Schmidt passed his Abitur in Wiesbaden in Hesse in 1914 . He was a war volunteer in World War I , fought in France , Bulgaria , Serbia and Belarus . Schmidt was wounded three times. Through his assignments in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, he came closer to the Slavs .
After the war ended, he studied law in Leipzig , where his fiancée Herta Schulte lived. In addition to studying law, Schmidt attended lectures in Slavic studies ; first in Leipzig with Matthias Murko and Max Vasmer , and took the diploma examination in Russian in 1921 . He then followed Vasmer to the University of Berlin , where he also studied ecclesiastical legal history with Ulrich Stutz .
1922 doctorate Schmid in Berlin to Dr. phil. and married his fiancée. In the same year he took on an assistant position at the canon law institute of the University of Berlin, where he worked closely with Ulrich Stutz. Schmid's life was far removed from the ethnic struggle on the German language border, which has also influenced German science.
Without habilitation , Schmid received a call to Graz as associate professor for Slavic philology in 1923 , where he became full professor in 1929 . In Graz, Schmid felt at a dead end professionally, and his hopes for a professorship in Berlin in 1932/33 were not fulfilled. Because of his university posts in Graz before Austria was annexed to the German Reich , Schmidt was unsustainable for the NSDAP from 1938 onwards . He was briefly arrested, then removed from teaching, and finally forcibly retired .
In World War II served Schmid as officer of the Air Force in Norway , the Slovak Republic and the Ukraine on the Russian Eastern Front . At the end of the war he was a major in the Luftwaffe. He came in 1945 for a short time in American captivity , took over in June 1945 but again his professorship in Graz. On February 26, 1948 he was appointed full professor for Slavic Linguistics and Eastern European History at the University of Vienna and headed the Vienna Seminar for Eastern European History. In 1957 the seminar celebrated its 50th anniversary as an institute for East European history and south-east research .
Schmid was head of the Institute for Eastern European History and Southeast Research at the University of Vienna from 1948 to 1963, and from 1931 to 1932 and 1947 to 1948 dean of the philosophy faculty at the University of Graz. After a short illness he died in Vienna in 1963.
Works (selection)
- (1922) The right to found and equip churches in the colonial parts of the Magdeburg Church Province during the Middle Ages . Weimar: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf.
- (1922) On the question of the Nomocanon translation of Methodius [...] . Inaugural dissertation. University of Leipzig.
- (1927) with Reinhold Trautmann: Essence and Tasks of German Slavic Studies. One program . Leipzig: Haessel.
- (1930) The origin of the ecclesiastical tithe right on Slavic soil . Lwów: Pierwsza Zwia̜skowa drukarnia.
- (1938) The legal basis of parish organization on West Slavic soil and its development during the Middle Ages . Vienna: Böhlau.
literature
- Bamberger, Richard & Maier-Bruck, Franz (eds.) (1966). Austria Lexicon in two volumes . Volume 2: L-Z. Vienna / Munich: Austrian federal publisher for teaching, science and art. P. 1024.
- Feine, Hans Erich (1964). "Heinrich Felix Schmid". Obituary. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Canonical Section L. Eighty-first Volume. S. XXXI-XLVIII.
- Stökl, Günther (ed.) (1965). Studies on the older history of Eastern Europe. Part 1. Festschrift for Heinrich Felix Schmid . (Vienna Archive for the History of Slavicism and Eastern Europe 2.) Graz / Cologne: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf.
Individual evidence
- ^ Feine, Hans Erich (1964). "Heinrich Felix Schmid". Obituary. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Canonical Section L. Eighty-first Volume. S. XXXVI.
Web links
- Publications by HF Schmid in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
1. Chair for Slavic Linguistics: Gregor Krek (1875–1902) | Matija Murko (1902-1917) | Rajko seamigal (1917–1919) | Heinrich Felix Schmid (1929–1938) | Simon Pirchegger (1943–1945) | Heinrich Felix Schmid (1945–1948) | Josef Matl (1954–1968) | Linda Sadnik (1968–1975) | Harald Jaksche (1978–1989) | Branko Tošović (1996-2016) | Boban Arsenijević (since 2016)
2. Chair of Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies: Karel Štrekelj (1908–1913) | Stanislaus Hafner (1967–1988) | Wolfgang Eismann (1988–2009) | Renate Hansen-Kokoruš (2009–2019) | Sonja Koroliov (since 2019)
3rd Chair for Slovenian Studies: Andreas Leben (since 2010)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmid, Heinrich Felix |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmid, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian Slavist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1963 |
| Place of death | Vienna |