Hermann Bräuning-Octavio

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Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Bräuning-Oktavio (until 1909 Bräuning , pseudonym Fritz Oktavio ; born January 3, 1888 in Niederrad , † November 14, 1977 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German literary historian, critic, translator and publisher. Since his student days he has published a large number of scientific papers; His publications focused on Goethe - Merck research, silhouettes , the history of printing , newspapers of the 17th century, England, the theater and Hessian family and local history.

Life

Bräuning, son of the railway chief secretary Hermann Bräuning and Elisabeth (née Heil), attended secondary school from 1894 to 1897 and the new grammar school in Darmstadt from 1897 to 1906 . He then studied mathematics, German literature and philosophy at the TH Darmstadt before moving to the University of Jena in the winter semester of 1906/07 , where he was enrolled in theology and philosophy until 1908. For financial reasons he had to break off his studies and then worked as a private tutor at Gut Gerau in the Lüneburg Heath . In 1909 he adopted the literary nickname "Octavio". In 1910 he began studying modern philologies, educational sciences and philosophy at the University of Giessen , where he attended philological lectures by Dietrich Behrens , Wilhelm Diehl and Alfred Körte . In 1911 he received his doctorate under Otto Behaghel with studies on the Frankfurt scholars advertisements from 1772 . In the same year, together with Wilhelm Diehl, he was the founder and until the end of 1913 publisher of the Hessian Chronicle published in Darmstadt . Monthly for family and local history in Hesse and Hesse-Nassau . From 1912 to 1913 he worked as a research assistant at the BG Teubner publishing house in Leipzig ; 1913/14 there as archivist at the Central Office for German Personal and Family History and editor of the Familiengeschichtliche Blätter . In 1914 he was co-founder and co-editor of the Leipziger stage (which had already been discontinued after 10 editions) . Half-monthly publication for the Leipzig City Theater .

In 1914 Bräuning-Oktavio went to London to study (including the British Museum ) and was then a scholarship holder at Woodbrooke College , a Quaker educational institution in Birmingham . From July 1915 to March 1919 he was interned as a prisoner of war on the Isle of Man . There he had already held English courses for other internees; After returning to Germany, he continued this activity at various adult education centers. From 1920 to 1921 he was director of the Volkshochschule Kassel, from 1921 to 1923 director of the Volkshochschule Darmstadt. At the same time he passed the state examination for higher teaching post at the University of Gießen in 1920/21. From 1924 to 1935 he worked as a dispatcher at Wittichschen Hofbuchdruckerei and as managing director of the LC Wittich publishing house in Darmstadt. Various research stays in England and activities at publishers and insurance companies followed. From 1938 to 1942 he was a teacher (and from 1940 also director) at the higher private school in Darmstadt. In 1942 he passed the 2nd state examination, worked in 1942/43 as a teacher at the high school for boys in Salzgitter , then in Goslar, at the large class for air force helpers in Watenstedt and at the high school for boys in Seesen . After the war he returned to the high school in Salzgitter; In 1946 he was dismissed from school service by the British military government as part of the denazification and classified in stress group III.

Bräuning-Oktavio now lived in Burg-Gemünden as a private scholar, after his complete rehabilitation in 1953, he resumed his school work in Homberg . From 1955 he lived as a private scholar in Offenbach am Main . His estate is in the manuscript department of the University and State Library Darmstadt , which dedicated an exhibition to him on the 25th anniversary of his death in 2002. Some works from the estate, including fiction, were published posthumously, including his autobiography One Goes His Way: Memories of an Eventful Life .

Works

  • Contributions to the history and questions about the employees of the Frankfurt scholars advertisements 1772. Also a chapter on Goethe philology . Vogelsberger, Darmstadt 1912. (= print version of his dissertation)
    • expanded edition: publisher and collaborator of the Frankfurt Scholars Ads 1772 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1966.
  • An English example of educational reform . Pfeil, Reuters (Upper Hesse) 1919.
  • The English workers' education and the German adult education center . Beyer, Langensalza 1920.
  • The first print of Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen . A memorial from 1773–1923 . Wittich, Darmstadt 1923.
  • Book printing in Darmstadt . Volume 1: 1605-1764 . Wittich, Darmstadt 1934. Volume 2: The LC Wittich'sche Hofbuchdruckerei 1764–1934 . Wittich, Darmstadt 1936.
  • From the intermaxillary bone to the idea of ​​the type. Goethe as a natural scientist in the years 1780–1786 . Barth, Leipzig 1956 (= Nova acta Leopoldina, 18)
  • Oken and Goethe in the light of new sources . Arion, Weimar 1959.
  • Johann Heinrich Merck and Herder . The story of a friendship . Liebig, Darmstadt 1969. (= Darmstädter Schriften, 24)
  • Goethe and Johann Heinrich Merck / JH Merck and the French Revolution . Liebig, Darmstadt 1970, ISBN 3-87390-026-2 (= Darmstädter Schriften, 26)
  • Christian Gottlob Heynes lectures on ancient art and its influence on Johann Heinrich Merck, Herder and Goethe . Liebig, Darmstadt 1971, ISBN 3-87390-032-7 (= Darmstädter Schriften, 30)
  • Weather lights of the literary revolution: Johann Heinrich Merck and his collaborators at the Frankfurt Scholars advertisements in pictures and words in 1772 . Liebig, Darmstadt 1972, ISBN 3-87390-033-5 (= Darmstädter Schriften, 31)
  • Georg Büchner : Thoughts on Life, Work and Death . Bouvier, Bonn 1976, ISBN 3-416-01237-2 (= treatises on art, music and literature, 207)
  • Luise Merck 1743-1810. Story of a marriage . Roether, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-7929-0127-7
  • Georg Büchner's escape and end. Play in 3 acts . Roether, Darmstadt 1987, ISBN 3-7929-0161-7
  • Lord Byron . Play in five acts . Monsenstein and Vannerdat , Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-86582-762-3
  • One goes his own way: memories of an eventful life . buch.macher autoren.verlag 2014, ISBN 978-393503979-6 .

Articles (selection):

  • Claudius , Merck and Moser . A contribution to the assessment of Claudius' stay in Darmstadt in the years 1776–1777 . In: Gießener Familienblätter , No. 189, 1909
  • Johann Heinrich Merck: 1741–1791 . In: Daily Rundschau, 13./15. March 1911 (also as a special print)
  • Unprinted letters from Freiligrath , Mörike and Storm . In: Westfälisches Magazin , NF, 2/1911, pp. 25-29.
  • On the biography of Helfrich Bernhard Wenck . In: Darmstädter Tagblatt , March 11, 1912 (also as a special print)
  • Where is Goethe's “Götz von Berlichingen” printed? In: Hessische Chronik, 1/1912
  • Johann Heinrich Merck and his commitment to the French Revolution . In: Weimar Contributions , 1957
  • Goethe and Diderot in 1772. With unprinted letters from JH Merck and FM Leuchsenring . In: Yearbook of the Goethe Society , NF, 24 (1962), pp. 237-252.
  • Ludwig Carl von Weitolshausen, called Schrautenbach, Lord of Lindheim in the Wetterau, the "thinking, philosophical Moravian" . In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , XIII, 1963, pp. 223–279.
  • Forbidden literature in the library of the " Great Landgravine " . In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , XVI, 1966, pp. 147–164.

Editing:

  • Letters from Duchess Elisabeth Charlotte of Orléans , called Liselotte . Voigtländer, Leipzig 1913 (= Voigtländer's source books, vol. 55)
  • Wittich calendar . 1925-1934
  • Silhouettes from the Werther era. From the estate of Johann Heinrich Voss and Carl Schubert's book of silhouettes . Wittich, Darmstadt 1926
  • (with Hans von der Au , Heinrich Hassinger) I serve. Ceremony for the 60th birthday of Wilhelm Diehl . Wittich, Darmstadt 1931
  • Jean Batten : My Life . Westermann, Braunschweig etc. 1939.
  • Johann Heinrich Merck: Fables and Stories . Roether, Darmstadt 1962.

Collaboration:

  • Julius Zeitler (ed.): Goethe manual . Metzler, Stuttgart 1916-1918.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Poems . Edited by Lore Kaim. People and knowledge, Berlin / Leipzig 1949.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Haug: Article on Bräuning-Oktavio, Hermann. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 255-258 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  2. ↑ http://www.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/media/ulb/spezialabteilungen/handschriften_1/nachlaesse_1/Braeuning-Oktavio.PDF

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SURNAME Bräuning-Oktavio, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oktavio, Fritz (pseudonym); Bräuning, Hermann (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederrad
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1977
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau