Hermann Varnhagen

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Hermann Varnhagen (born August 10, 1850 in Arolsen , † June 26, 1924 in Erlangen ) was a new German philologist.

Life

Varnhagen was the son of Robert Varnhagen and his first wife Auguste geb. Schmitz. His half-brother was Oskar Varnhagen . Varnhagen attended the old state school in Korbach and took part in the Franco-German War . At the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen he began to study classical philology, comparative linguistics and modern languages. He became active in the Corps Borussia Tübingen in 1871 and distinguished himself as a consenior . When he was inactive , he moved to the University of Geneva and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . In 1875/76 he was a teacher at the high school in Münden . In 1876 he did his doctorate at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with Theodor Müller with an inquiry into the origin and different meanings of the English particle "but" (Göttingen 1876). He then stayed in England and completed his habilitation in 1878 with Bernhard Schmitz at the Royal University of Greifswald for Romance and English . Appointed associate professor there in 1881, in the same year he accepted a double ordination at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen . In 1890 he founded the seminar for Romance and English philology. In 1898 he was able to hand over the Romance teaching tasks to a new associate professor with Heinrich Schneegans . In 1901 he succeeded in founding the first independent seminar for English philology in Bavaria, which he directed until 1920. During this time he supervised 50 dissertations. He was also rector (officially Prorector Magnificus) for the 1905/06 term of office. He was given the title of Privy Councilor.

Varnhagen published a considerable number of shorter treatises, mostly in Italian content, not infrequently in Latin, cf. "Varnhagen, Hermann" in the Italian VK [union catalog], accessible via "kvk Karlsruhe" ( Karlsruhe virtual catalog )

plant

  • An Italian prose version of the Seven Wise Men, based on a London manuscript, first published . Berlin 1881
  • About a collection of old Italian prints from the Erlangen University Library. A contribution to the knowledge of the Italian literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Along with numerous woodcuts . Erlangen 1892
  • Systematic directory of the program treatises, dissertations and post-doctoral theses in the fields of Romance and English philology as well as general linguistics and literature and pedagogy and methodology . Leipzig 1893, New York 1968
  • Werder against Bourbaki. The battle of the 14th German Corps against the French Eastern Army in January 1871 . Berlin [1896]

See also

literature

  • Herbert Voitl: On the history of English philology in Erlangen. In: 250 years of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Festschrift , ed. by Henning Kössler (Erlangen Research, Special Series, Vol. 4), Erlangen 1993, pp. 565-587
  • Ludwig Luckemeyer: Liberales Waldeck and Pyrmont and Waldeck-Frankenberg 1821–1981 . 1984, pp. 298-300.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Körting: Encyclopedia and Methodology of English Philology , p. 26, Gebr. Henninger, 1888
  2. ^ Albert Wagner, Arthur Kölbing: Englische Studien, Vol. 58, p. 473, OR Reisland, 1924
  3. ↑ Kösener Corp lists in 1960, 126/9
  4. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Varnhagen, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English and Romance studies
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1924
Place of death gain