Hermann Hefele

Herman (n) Hefele (born October 13, 1885 in Stuttgart , † March 30, 1936 in Frauenburg , East Prussia ) was a German historian and literary historian .

Hermann Hefele, son of Emil von Hefele , President of the Catholic Upper Church Council in Stuttgart, studied Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen from 1904 , initially with the aim of becoming a priest, but left the seminary in 1908 and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked for the Historical Atlas of Bavaria in Munich until 1919 . In 1919 he became archivist at the main state archive in Stuttgart , and in 1929 professor of history and modern German literary history at the State Academy in Braunsberg in East Prussia. In 1935 he retired.

He translated Francesco Petrarca , Augustinus , Gerolamo Cardano , Albert von Aachen , Stefano Infessura , Tristano Caracciolo , Antonio Beccadelli , Camillo Porzio and others into German.

Fonts

• The mendicant orders and the religious people's life of Upper and Central Italy in the XIII. Century. Leipzig [u. a.]: Teubner, 1910 (dissertation)
• (Transl.) Francesco Petrarca: Letter to posterity. Jena: Diederichs, 1910
• (Translator) Alfonso I - Ferrante I of Naples: writings by Antonio Beccadelli, Tristano Caracciolo, Camillo Porzio. Jena: Diederichs, 1912
  • Content:
  • Tristano Caracciolo: King Ferdinand of Aragon and his descendants
  • Antonio Beccadelli: From the life of King Alfonsus I
  • Camillo Porzio: The Conspiracy of the Barons of the Kingdom of Naples against King Ferrante I.
  • Tristano Caracciolo: On the Change of Fate
• (Transl.) Stefano Infessura: Roman diary. Jena: Diederichs, 1913
• (Transl.) Girolamo Cardano: The Girolamo Cardano of Milan (citizens of Bologna) own biography. Jena: Diederichs, 1914
• On the psychology of the stage. Jena: Diederichs, 1918
• The law of form. Letters to the dead. Jena: Diederichs, 1919.
• Dante. Stuttgart: Frommann, 1921
• (Transl.) Aurelius Augustinus: Saint Augustine's Confessions. Jena: Diederichs, 1921
• The essence of poetry. Stuttgart: Frommann, 1923
• (Translator) Albert von Aachen : History of the first crusade. 2 volumes. Jena 1923 ( The old Reich )
  • Part 1: Conquering the Holy Land
  • Part 2: The Kingdom of Jerusalem
• Goethe's Faust. Stuttgart: Frommann, 1931 (3rd A. 1946)
• Niccolo Machiavelli. Lübeck: Coleman, 1933
• History and shape. Six essays. With an afterword ed. by Clemens Bauer . Leipzig: Hegner, 1940 (Contents: Goethe's poetry. Schiller's development to maturity. Johann Gottfried Herder. On the concept of the Renaissance. Niccolo Machiavelli. Augustine and his confessions. With a bibliography)

literature

• Hermann Hefele. In: August Hagen: Figures from Swabian Catholicism . Vol. 3, 1954

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Hefele in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library