Hermann Tiemann

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Hermann Tiemann (born July 9, 1899 in Bremen , † February 27, 1981 in Hamburg ) was a German Romance studies and librarian .

life and work

Tiemann graduated from high school in Bremerhaven in 1917 and studied Romance, English and German in Berlin (before military service) and Tübingen. In 1919 he became active in the student union Landsmannschaft Scotland . He received his doctorate in 1923 in Göttingen with studies in Spanish drama in Flanders (Diego Muxet de Solis, D. Jacinto de Herrera y Sotomayor, D. Miquel de Barrios) to obtain a Dr. phil. and became library councilor at the Hamburg State Library in 1928. In 1945 he completed his habilitation. From 1945 Tiemann was library director of the Hamburg State and University Library and professor for Romance philology at the university. Since 1947 he was co-founder and co-editor of the magazine Romanistisches Jahrbuch . He was also chairman of the Maximilian Society .

Other works

Romance Studies

  • (Ed.) Cervantes, The ingenious Junker Don Quixote of the Mancha . Hamburg 1928, 5th edition 1955
  • Spanish literature in Germany from the Renaissance to the Romantic period . A series of lectures. Hamburg 1936, Hildesheim 1971
  • Lope de Vega in Germany. Critical overall index of the older Lope prints and copies available in German libraries. - Manuscripts and an attempt at a bibliography of German Lope literature 1629–1935 . Hamburg 1939, Hildesheim 1970
  • Spirit, Language and Poetry. On the work of Karl Vossler . In: Hamburger Akademische Rundschau , 1, 1946/1947, pp. 12–28
  • (Ed.) Life and Change Lazaril von Tormes . Hamburg 1951
  • The Origin of the Medieval Novella in France [lecture]. Hamburg 1961
  • (Ed.) The novel by Queen Sibille. In three prose versions from the 14th and 15th centuries . Hamburg 1977

German studies

  • (Ed. With Hans Schimank and Julius Schuster) Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography and its German adaptation by Goethe . Hamburg 1928
  • (Ed.) Meta Klopstock, correspondence with Klopstock, her relatives and friends . 3 volumes. Hamburg 1956
  • (with Franziska Tiemann) History of the Meta Klopstock in letters . Bremen 1962
  • (Ed. With Franziska Tiemann) My letters are strange things. Meta Klopstock's correspondence with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and her friends . Munich 1980, 1988

literature

  • Christian Voigt, Erich Zimmermann (ed.): Libris et litteris. Festschrift for Hermann Tiemann on his 60th birthday on July 9, 1959 . Hamburg 1959
  • Christian Voigt (Ed.): Hermann Tiemann, essays, lectures and essays from four decades . With a foreword by Fritz Schalk and a list of the author's most important writings. Maximilian Society in Hamburg, Hamburg 1974
  • Romanistisches Jahrbuch , 32, 1981, pp. 5-8
  • Hellmut Braun. In: Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences. Annual report 1980–82 . Pp. 41-44
  • Horst Gronemeyer . In: Reports and opinions from the University of Hamburg , ed. by the President of the University of Hamburg, Vol. 12, 1981, 2, p. 27
  • Horst Gronemeyer : Tiemann, Hermann . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 312 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Münzenmaier (ed.): History of the homeland Scotland Tübingen 1849-1924 . Stuttgart 1924.
personal data
SURNAME Tiemann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies scholar, librarian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1981
Place of death Hamburg