Hugo Kuhn

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Hugo Kuhn (* 20th July 1909 in Thaleischweiler , now Thaleischweiler-Fröschen , † 5. October 1978 in Prien am Chiemsee ) was a German germanistischer medievalist .

Kuhn studied in Breslau and heard there especially from the art historian Dagobert Frey , the philosopher Richard Hönigswald and the theologian Friedrich Gogarten . When he switched to Tübingen in 1932, his interests also changed. He increasingly attended lectures by the Germanists Hermann Schneider and Paul Kluckhohn .

Kuhn obtained his doctorate in 1935 and submitted his habilitation thesis in 1939. In 1940 he was drafted into military service. He returned from the war wounded in 1943 and became a private lecturer in Tübingen in 1944, where he was an adjunct professor from 1947. In 1954 he was appointed to succeed Carl von Kraus in Munich, where he taught until his death in 1978. He retired in 1977 .

Since 1955 he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

In 1973 Kuhn converted from the Protestant to the Catholic faith. His older brother was the theologian and orientalist Karl Georg Kuhn .

Works (selection)

  • Walther's crusade song (14.38) and price song (56.14) . Triltsch, Würzburg 1936 (dissertation University of Tübingen).
  • The falsified reality. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1946 (Der Deutschenspiegel, Volume 3).
  • Minnesang's turn . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1952 (Hermaea, NF 1) (2nd edition 1967).
  • Poetry and the World in the Middle Ages . Metzler, Stuttgart 1959.
  • Small fonts . Three volumes. Metzler, Stuttgart 1959/1969/1980.
  • together with Kurt Schier (Ed.): Märchen, Mythos, Dichtung. Festschrift for Friedrich von der Leyen's 90th birthday on August 19, 1963 . Beck, Munich 1963.
  • Drafts for a literature system of the late Middle Ages . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1980, ISBN 3-484-10370-1 .
  • Minnelieder Walthers von der Vogelweide. A comment , ed. by Christoph Cormeau. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1982 (Studies on the History of German Literature, Volume 33), ISBN 3-484-32033-8 .

literature

  • Norbert H. Ott:  Kuhn, Hugo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 261-263 ( digitized version ).
  • Ingeborg Glier (Ed.): Work, type, situation. Studies on poetological conditions in older German literature; [Hugo Kuhn on his 60th birthday] . Metzler, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Christoph Cormeau (Ed.): German literature in the Middle Ages. Contacts and Perspectives; Hugo Kuhn in memory . Metzler, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-476-00435-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Thaleischweiler
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1978
Place of death Prien am Chiemsee