Hugo Mareta

Hugo Mareta OSB (born April 11, 1827 in Baden , Lower Austria ; † October 31, 1913 in Vienna ; actually Alois Mareta ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic schoolboy and Germanist .

Life

After attending the Schottengymnasium in Vienna in 1846, Mareta entered the Schotten Abbey . He studied theology at the University of Vienna and was ordained a priest in 1851. After studying philology at Vienna University, he taught German and Latin at the Schottengymnasium as the successor to Berthold Sengschmitt from 1856 until his retirement in 1902 . As a German teacher, he had a strong influence on an entire generation of Germanists.

Scientifically, Mareta dealt primarily with the Austrian dialects and developed a dictionary of the Austrian vernacular . He played a major role in the reintroduction of Middle High German teaching at grammar schools . In 1901 he received the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order .

Works

Samples of a dictionary of the Austrian vernacular with consideration of the older German dialects . In: Annual report of the kais. Upper secondary school to the Scots in Vienna at the end of the school year 1861 . Vienna 1861, pp. I – XII, 1–65.
Samples of a dictionary of the Austrian vernacular. Second attempt . In: Annual report of the kais. Upper secondary school to the Scots in Vienna at the end of the school year 1865 . Vienna 1865, pp. I-XII, 1-67.
About Judas the arch rogue from Abraham a Sancta Clara. A contribution to the literary history of the 17th century . In: Annual report of the kais. Upper secondary school to the Scots in Vienna at the end of the school year 1875 . Vienna 1875, pp. 1–87.
Where did Schiller get the material for his “diver”? In: Festgabe for the 100th anniversary of the Schottengymnasium . Vienna 1907, pp. 179–186.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Mareta, Hugo . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, p. 435 ( digitized version ).
Albert Hübl : History of teaching in the Schotten Abbey in Vienna . Fromme, Vienna 1907, p. 199.
C. Rapf: Mareta P. Hugo (Alois). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 81 f. (Direct links on p. 81 , p. 82 ).
Johannes Jung , Gerhard Schlass, Friedrich Wally, Edgar Weiland: The Schottengymnasium in Vienna. Tradition and Commitment . Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-205-98683-0 , p. 116.

Individual evidence

↑ This becomes clear, among other things, in a commemorative publication that was dedicated to him by former students - including the German scholars and literary scholars Carl von Kraus , Jakob Minor , Johann Willibald Nagl , August Sauer and Joseph Seemüller as well as the dramaturge Alfred von Berger : Festschrift for the forty year old Service anniversary of Prof. Hugo Mareta's . Vienna 1892.

Web links

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

personal data
SURNAME	Mareta, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mareta, Alois (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Benedictine, scholar and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 11, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baden , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH	October 31, 1913
Place of death	Vienna

[1] This becomes clear, among other things, in a commemorative publication that was dedicated to him by former students - including the German scholars and literary scholars Carl von Kraus , Jakob Minor , Johann Willibald Nagl , August Sauer and Joseph Seemüller as well as the dramaturge Alfred von Berger : Festschrift for the forty year old Service anniversary of Prof. Hugo Mareta's . Vienna 1892.