Hermann von Pfister-Schwaighusen
Hermann von Pfister-Schwaighusen (born August 2, 1836 in Kassel , † July 6, 1916 in Darmstadt ) was a German military historian, ethnic writer, ideologist and Germanist .
Life
Hermann von Pfister attended high schools in Kassel and Gotha , and then began an officer career in 1859. In the same year he took a leave of absence from military service to study German and comparative linguistics at the University of Jena . In 1861 he entered the Prussian army service. He graduated from the War Academy in Potsdam and then found employment in the General Staff , as a teacher at the Kassel War School and as a major in the infantry regiment v. Keith. He was deployed in the German War and in the Franco-German War . After being injured in the war, he quit military service as a semi-invalid in 1877.
Following his military career, von Pfister worked as a freelance writer for a number of years. From 1884 until his retirement in 1914 he was a lecturer in military science and modern languages (German, Russian) at the Technical University of Darmstadt . A special area of research was the Hessian dialect . Von Pfister continued the work of August Friedrich Christian Vilmar .
Von Pfister is said to have suggested the term “völkisch” as a German synonym for the word “national” around 1875. In 1905 he was one of the founding members of the Guido von List Society . He advocated linguistic purism and initially found an ally in the bourgeois General German Language Association ; due to his own nationalistic and linguistic-puristic radicalization since the beginning of the 1890s, however, he broke with this in 1898. Von Pfister was an opponent of the Antiqua typeface; In 1887 he pleaded for Fraktur as a "peculiarity of German folklore worth preserving ". As a radical and ethnic language purist, he was involved in Adolf Reinecke's All-German Language and Writing Association and his Heimdall magazine . In addition, he was also in numerous other ethnic organizations and was an active speaker, especially at fraternity and pan-German events in Austria. He was honorary boy of the Darmstadt fraternity Germania (1887) and fraternity Frankonia Graz (1899).
As a major D. he was a private lecturer for weapons technology at the Technical University in Darmstadt. In 1903/04 he founded the War Technology Collection here with the engineer Egon Neumann.
Fonts (selection)
- Legends and superstitions from Hessen and Nassau. 1885
- Pan-German tribal studies according to dialects and stories with precise boundaries of all tribes. 2nd edition, 128 pages, Luckhardt Verlag, Berlin, 1905
- On the failure of Gothic pronunciation. In: Gotica Minora
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 311-312.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann von Pfister-Schwaighusen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Hermann von Pfister-Schwaighusen in the German Digital Library
- Uwe Puschner: Pfister (since the 1880s Pfister-Schwaighusen), Hermann von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , pp. 338-340 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Uwe Puschner : The völkisch movement in the Wilhelmine Empire. Language - race - religion.
- ↑ Hartmann 1998, quoted from Jürgen F. Schopp
- ↑ http://publicus.culture.hu-berlin.de/sammlungen/detail.php?dsn=1077&view=2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfister-Schwaighusen, Hermann von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1916 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |