Hermann Fischer (Germanist)

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Hermann Fischer , from 1902 by Fischer , (born October 12, 1851 in Stuttgart ; † October 30, 1920 in Tübingen ) was a German German philologist , dialect researcher and lexicographer .

Life

Fischer's father, the poet Johann Georg Fischer , was a real teacher and the son of a carpenter; the mother was the daughter of pastor Ludwig August Neubert. Hermann Fischer attended the humanistic grammar school in Stuttgart and then the lower theological seminar in Blaubeuren . In 1869 he moved into the Tübingen monastery , where he attended numerous humanities subjects and was a member of the Tübingen royal society Roigel . Fischer received his doctorate on August 6, 1873 with a thesis on the origin of the Nibelungenlied . Immediately afterwards he initially worked as a teacher at the humanistic grammar school in Stuttgart, but was then awarded a semester free in 1874 in order to be able to study with Friedrich Zarncke at the University of Leipzig . When he returned to Tübingen, he took the examination for professorship at learned schools. In 1877 he married Julie Schmitz (1854–1936) in Stuttgart, the daughter of a German businessman in Genoa ; the marriage produced six children.

Create and work

In 1882, Adelbert von Keller transferred the continuation of his collection of Swabian vocabulary to Fischer. 1885 took over this, also from Keller, head of the Stuttgart Litterarische Association , and in 1888 he joined - after a six-year interlude Eduard Sievers ' - even cellar succession to the Tübingen Department of Germanic Philology at.

For Fischer, the publication of the collection of words in the form of the Swabian dictionary became a life's work, to which he devoted himself from 1883 until his death in 1920, albeit without being able to complete it himself. It was not until 1936 that the work of Wilhelm Pfleiderer , an employee of Fischer, was completed with the publication of the seventh and last volume. A single-volume version of the Swabian Dictionary has been available since 1986 (1st edition) under the title Swabian Concise Dictionary .

In 1902 Hermann von Fischer was awarded the Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , which was associated with the personal title of nobility. From 1913 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Grave in the Tübingen city cemetery

Fonts (selection)

  • On the history of Middle High German. Tubingen 1889.
  • Geography of the Swabian dialect. Tübingen 1895.
  • Contributions to the literary history of Swabia. Tubingen 1899.
  • Swabian dictionary based on the collections started by Adalbert von Keller. I – VI.2 (continued by Wilhelm Pfleiderer) Tübingen 1904–1936 (1st delivery of Volume I: 1901); Reprint ibid no year.
  • Basics of German antiquity. Leipzig 1908 (= science and education. Volume 40).
  • Swabian literature in the 18th and 19th centuries. Tubingen 1911.
  • About the origin of the Nibelungenlied. Munich 1914 (session reports of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences).
  • About Gottfried von Strasbourg. Munich 1916 (session reports of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences).
  • About bad foreign words and good German. In: Das humanistische Gymnasium 31, 1920, pp. 60–71.

As head of the Litterarian Society , he also published numerous works, including those by Ludwig Uhland , Theodor Körner and Hermann Kurz as well as Swabian folk songs collected by Uhland and Georg Rodolf Weckherlin's poems.

literature

  • Lioba Keller-Drescher: work on vocabulary. Hermann Fischer and the Swabian Dictionary. In: Anke te Heesen u. a. (Ed.): Vocabulary. Collecting and finding the words. Universitätsstadt Tübingen, Tübingen 2008 (Tübingen Catalogs, Volume 81), pp. 18-27, ISBN 978-3-910090-85-9 .
  • Hugo Moser :  Fischer, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 176 ( digitized version ).
  • Arno Ruoff: Hermann Fischer. 1851-1920. In: On the history of folklore and dialect research in Württemberg. Helmut Dölker on his 60th birthday. Published by the Tübinger Vereinigung für Volkskunde e. V. Tübingen 1964, pp. 171-192 (with a bibliography).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Bartels: Fischer, Johann Georg. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 48 (1904), pp. 569-574, digital full-text edition in Wikisource (URL: [1] Version of July 23, 2018, 10:12 pm).
  2. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg. 1907, p. 37.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Hermann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist, dialectologist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1920
Place of death Tübingen