Herbert Schöffler

Herbert Schöffler (born August 30, 1888 in Leipzig , † April 18, 1946 in Göttingen ) was a German Anglicist who also worked in the fields of religious and cultural sociology .

From 1908 to 1911 he studied German, modern philology and history in Leipzig and Paris and received his doctorate in 1911 at the University of Leipzig under Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld . From 1914 he was an assistant at the historical seminar at the University of Leipzig, where he received his habilitation in 1918. In 1923 he became professor of English at the University of Bern , and in 1926 at the University of Cologne . Suspended in Cologne in 1941 for political reasons, he became a professor at the University of Göttingen in 1942 . In 1943 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . Suffering from overwork and depression, he committed suicide in 1946.

Works

• Contributions to Middle English medical literature. Niemeyer, Halle 1919.
• Protestantism and Literature. New Paths to Eighteenth Century English Literature ( English Library; 2). Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1922.
• The beginnings of puritanism. Attempt to interpret the English Reformation ( Cologne Anglistic Works; 14). Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1932.
• England the land of sport. A cultural-sociological explanation ( booklets on England studies; 9). Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1935.
• Small geography of the German joke. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1955 a. ö. (10th edition 1995). Online: http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00049989.html?pageNo=1&zoom=1.00&leftTab=mlt

literature

• Gunta Haenicke:  Schöffler, Herbert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 361 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hans-Christof Kraus: The beginnings of lexical-biographical research with Herbert Schöffler. In: Ágoston Zénó Bernád u. a. (Ed.): Europe builds on biographies. Aspects, building blocks, norms and standards for a European biography. new academic press, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7003-2069-2 , pp. 67–80.