Hermann Baumgart

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Hermann Baumgart (born May 24, 1843 in Elbing ; † June 8, 1926 in Königsberg ) was a German literary historian and rector of the University of Königsberg.

Life

After attending school in Elbing and a commercial apprenticeship that was broken off, Baumgart studied classical philology and history in Königsberg from 1861 to 1865. Since 1871 Baumgart has been teaching classical philology, German and history as a grammar school teacher at the Royal Friedrichs Collegium in Königsberg. In 1874 he received his doctorate in Leipzig and in 1877 he completed his habilitation in Königsberg. After teaching for three years as a private lecturer, Baumgart was appointed associate professor in 1880. From 1890 Baumgart was a full professor for modern German literary history in Königsberg. In the year of office 1897/98 he was elected rector of the University of Königsberg . In 1904 he was appointed secret councilor, and in 1919 Baumgart retired.

Major works

  • Goethe's fairy tale. A political-national creed of the poet , Königsberg 1875 (Reprint Ann Arbor 1980).
  • The Hamlet tragedy and its criticism , Königsberg 1877.
  • Aristotle, Lessing and Goethe. On the ethical and aesthetic principles of tragedy , Leipzig 1877.
  • Goethe's prophecies of Bakis and the novella, two symbolic confessions of the poet , Halle 1886.
  • Handbook of Poetics. A critical historical presentation of the theory of poetry , Stuttgart 1887 ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive ) (Reprint Hildesheim 2003).
  • Goethe's Faust as a uniform poem , 2 vol., Königsberg 1893/1902.
  • Goethe's "Secrets" and his "Indian Legends" , Stuttgart 1895.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Baumgart, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1926
Place of death Koenigsberg