Heinrich Spiero

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Heinrich Spiero (born March 24, 1876 in Koenigsberg , † March 8, 1947 in Berlin ) was a German philologist and literary historian .

Life

Heinrich Spiero - coming from a Jewish family - converted to Protestantism as a child. He studied first German and then law and history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , the Universität Leipzig and the Universität Lyon .

In Leipzig Spiero was awarded a Dr. iur. doctorate , which was followed by an honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1931 . Up to the beginning of the First World War he worked in a managerial commercial position in Hamburg , where he also taught as a lecturer at the state art school from 1911 to 1914. From 1915 to 1919 he headed the raw materials department in the Prussian War Ministry .

After the First World War he settled as a freelance writer in Berlin . The Jedermanns Lexikon (10 volumes, 1929–1931) was developed under his editor-in-chief in the Hermann Klemm publishing house in Berlin .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933 , he stayed in Germany despite several arrests and temporarily headed the Vereinigung non-Aryan Christians e. V. , which later bore the addition of Paul = covenant and was banned in 1937. He could not accept a position at the University of Delaware because of the beginning of the Second World War .

Heinrich Spiero was the founder and member of the Hamburger Kunstgesellschaft . He was also on the board of the German Association of Germanists and on the board of the Internationale Raabe-Gesellschaft e. V.

Grave of Heinrich Spiero in Berlin-Schöneberg

Heinrich Spiero died in Berlin in 1947 at the age of 70. He found his final resting place in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg (field 605-005-017). The grave was dedicated to the State of Berlin from 1990 to 2014 .

Spiero's estate is in the Berlin Museum Treptow .

Publications

author

  • Poems of the Wanderer , Seemann, Leipzig 1902
  • Wreath and Crows New Poems. Richter, Hamburg 1903
  • Herms . Essays and studies. Voss, Hamburg 1906
  • History of German poetry since Claudius , Teubner, Leipzig 1908
  • Cities . Essays, Voss, Hamburg 1909
  • German ghosts. Studies and essays on contemporary literature , Xenien-Verlag, Leipzig 1910
  • Paul Heyse. The poet and his works , Cotta, Stuttgart 1910
  • Future (novel), 1911
  • Seals , Haberland, Leipzig 1911
  • Life forces , short stories, Haberland, Leipzig 1911
  • The poetic Berlin , Georg Müller, Munich 1912
  • Hamburg fairy tales , Glogau, Hamburg 1912
  • The work of Wilhelm Raabe , Haberland, Leipzig 1913 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • Snowy ways. The judges , novellas, Haberland, Leipzig 1913 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • History of German women's poetry since 1800 , Teubner, Leipzig 1913
  • Julius Rodenberg . His life and works , Paetel, Berlin 1921
  • The figure of the savior in recent German poetry , Eckart, Berlin 1926
  • Bound . Six stories, Die Brücke, Berlin 1926
  • Raabe-Lexikon , H.Klemm, Berlin-Grunewald 1926
  • Gustav Falke. A picture of life , Westermann, Braunschweig 1928
  • Fate and share. A life in the time of German reunification . Volksverband der Buchfreunde - Wegweiser Verlag, Berlin 1929
  • History of the German novel , de Gruyter, Berlin 1950

editor

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Literature Lexicon . Biographical and bibliographical manual. 2nd completely revised and greatly expanded edition. Volume 4: Spartakus - Cyrl and supplements. Francke, Bern 1958, p. 2781. The same, 3rd, completely revised edition, volume 18: Siff – Spoerri , column 549–550.
  • Sabine Gova : Heinrich Spiero - a memorial for his eighty-fifth birthday. In: Deutsche Rundschau. 87, 1961, ZDB -ID 205873-x , pp. 250-254.
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . Nekrolog 1936/70. de Gruyter, Berlin 1973.
  • Spiero, Heinrich. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 , pp. 363-376.
  • Anna Rohr: Dr. Heinrich Spiero (1876–1947). His work for Christians of Jewish origin under the Nazi regime. Metropol, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86331-269-5 .
  • Materials from the German Literature Archive, Marbach a. N.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 755.
personal data
SURNAME Spiero, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1947
Place of death Berlin