Hugo Bieber

Hugo Bieber (born September 13, 1883 in Berlin ; died September 30, 1950 in New York ) was a German literary scholar and journalist of Jewish descent.

life and work

Bieber received his doctorate in 1911 with a study on Johann Adolf Schlegel at the University of Berlin as Dr. phil. From 1925 to 1933 he was the literary director of the People's Association of Book Friends . In 1933 he emigrated to France and in 1941 via Spain to the USA.

His writings include literary historical accounts, contributions to Goethe and Romanticism research as well as to the German intellectual history of the 19th century. He has also presented several editions of his work ( William Shakespeare , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Heinrich von Kleist , Friedrich Hebbel , Goethe). After 1945 he wrote historical teaching materials for use in schools in the French occupation zone .

Bieber is known to this day as a Heine researcher and is primarily known for the Confessio Judaica collection (1925; 2nd, expanded edition under the title Jewish Manifesto , 1946), which he published and reprinted several times . For the first time in the Heine interpretation, with this compilation, Bieber attempts to define a Jewish identity for the poet. A second Heine anthology, edited in the last years of his life, in which Bieber no longer focused on the Jewish moment, was completed by the philosopher Moses Hadas .

Scientific writings

• Johann Adolf Schlegel's poetic theory. Examined in their historical context . Berlin 1912 (reprint: Johnson, New York and London 1967).
• Julius Zeitler and Hugo Bieber: Goethe manual . Three volumes, JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1916–18.
• Richard Moritz Meyer: The German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited and continued by Hugo Bieber, G. Bondi, Berlin 1921.
• The way of German poetry. From the beginning to Goethe . 1925.
• The struggle for tradition. German poetry in intellectual life 1830–1880 . Stuttgart 1928.
• Goethe in the XX. Century . Volksverb. d. Book friends, Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1932.
• Recent Literature on Heine's Attitude toward Judaism . In: Historica Judaica . Volume 10, 1948, pp. 175-183.
• Anti-semitism in the first years of the German Republic . In: Yivo bleter . Volume XXIX, 1947; later edition: Yivo (Yiddish Scientific Institute), New York, NY 1949.

Works in the series Textbook of History

• Reformation and Counter Reformation . Lehrmittel-Verlag, Offenburg and Mainz 1947.
• Absolutism and Enlightenment (1660–1789) . Lehrmittel-Verlag, Offenburg and Mainz 1947.
• Revolution of the bourgeoisie (1789–1850) . Lehrmittel-Verlag, Offenburg and Mainz 1947.
• The European State System (1848–1890) . Lehrmittel-Verlag, Offenburg and Mainz 1947.

Editions

• Heine's letters . Selected and introduced by Hugo Bieber, Bong, Berlin [et al.] 1914.
• Jean Paul: childhood memories and self-confessions . Edited by Hugo Bieber, Sibyllen-Verlag, Dresden 1924.
• Heinrich Heine: Confessio Judaica. A selection from his poems, writings and letters . Edited by Hugo Bieber, 1925 (reprint: Melzer, Neu-Isenburg 2006).
• Heinrich Heine: Conversations, letters, diaries, reports from his contemporaries . Collected and edited. by Hugo Bieber, Welt-Verlag, Berlin 1926.
• Heinrich Heine: Jewish Manifesto. A selection from the works, letters and conversations [= 2nd, expanded edition of the Confessio Judaica ], Rosenberg, New York 1946.
• Heinrich Heine: A biographical anthology . Edited by Hugo Bieber. English translation made or selected by Moses Hadas, Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia 1956.

literature

• Jeffrey L. Sammons: To the excluded Heine reception. Observations on the first great period of Heine philology . In: Jewish intellectuals and the philologies in Germany 1871–1933. Edited by Wilhelm Barner and Christoph König, Göttingen 2001, pp. 111–128.
• Bieber, Hugo. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 2: Bend Bins. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-22682-9 , pp. 410-417.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugo Bieber in the catalog of the German National Library