Jacob Klingner

Jacob Klingner, 2016

Jacob Georg Cornelius Klingner (born June 19, 1973 in Reutlingen , died May 26, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German literary scholar for older German literature and a publisher's editor . Klingner emerged in the professional world primarily with studies on the Minnerede and the spiritual literature of the late Middle Ages.

life and work

Jacob Klingner was the son of the special educator Bernhard Moritz Klingner and great-grandson of the Tibetologist August Hermann Francke . He studied as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (1993–1995), in Oxford (1995–1996) and in Berlin (1996–1999) the subjects of older German literature , modern German literature and philosophy . In 2000/2001 he worked as a research assistant in the DFG project "Repertory of the unprinted German-language sermons of the Middle Ages" at the Free University of Berlin . In the summer semester of 2005 he was trained by Volker Mertens and Tilo Brandis at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on “Minnereden im Druck. Studies on the history of genres in the age of media change ”. From 2005 to 2007 he was employed as a research assistant in the project “Handbuch Minnereden” of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at the TU Dresden . From 2007 to 2009 he was academic advisor to Hartmut Kugler at the chair for Germanic and German Philology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . Between April 2009 and September 2010 he was academic advisor to Ludger Lieb at the Chair for Older German Literature at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and since October 2010 in the same position with Ludger Lieb at the Chair for Older German Philology at the Ruprecht- Charles University of Heidelberg .

From 2003 to 2012 Klingner worked as a consultant for the subject of obituaries / funeral printed matter in the training of undertakers at the Federal Association of German Undertakers. From 2012 until his death he was a dedicated lecturer in Medieval Studies and Early Modern Studies at the Walter de Gruyter publishing house in Berlin .

Klingner was a member of the board of trustees of the "State Competition for German Language and Literature Baden-Württemberg".

Fonts

Based on the grass-cutting material , Hans Folz created the miner speech “Werbung im Stall”, 1479–1453.

Monographs

Minnereden in print. Studies on the history of the genre in the age of media change, (Philological studies and sources 226) Berlin: Erich Schmidt 2010. ISBN 978-3-503-12242-4
with Ludger Lieb: Handbuch Minnereden . With contributions by Iulia-Emilia Dorobanţu , Stefan Matter , Martin Muschick , Melitta Rheinheimer and Clara Strijbosch , 2 volumes, Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2013. ISBN 978-3-11-028083-8

Editing

with Iulia-Emilia Dorobanţu, Ludger Lieb: Between Anthropology and Philology: Contributions to the Future of Minereden Research . Heidelberg: University Library 2014. ISBN 978-3-946531-00-5 ( doi : 10.11588 / heibooks.11.4 )
with Monika Costard, Carmen Stange: Mertens read. Exemplary readings for Volker Mertens on his 75th birthday . Göttingen: VR unipress 2012. ISBN 978-3-8471-0035-5
with Iulia-Emilia Dorobanţu, Ludger Lieb: Minnereden. Selection edition . Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2017. ISBN 978-3-11-046433-7

Articles (selection)

'Just say happily: "Felix said so", and you'll be in the clear!' Felix Fabri OP (c. 1440–1502) Preaching Monastic Reform to Nuns, in: Medieval Sermon Studies 46 (2002), pp. 42–56.
Mourning printed matter, in: Bestattung in Deutschland - Textbook , ed. v. Chr. Bläsius and R. Lichtner, Düsseldorf 2007, pp. 196–216.
Travel to salvation. Two Ulm “Pilgrimages in the Spirit” from the end of the 15th century, in: Literary Rooms. Architectures - Orders - Media , ed. v. Martin Huber, Christine Lubkoll, Steffen Martus and Yvonne Wübben, Berlin 2012, pp. 59–73.
Felix Fabri and Heinrich Seuse, in: The world of Frater Felix Fabri , ed. by Folker Reichert and Alexander Rosenstock , (Publications of the Ulm City Library) Ulm 2018, pp. 113–147.

Web links

Commons : Jacob Klingner - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

↑ Obituary notice of Dr. Jacob Georg Cornelius Klingner on May 28, 2020, accessed on June 10, 2020.
↑ See directory of Germanists at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .
↑ See website of the Free University of Berlin .
^ Directory of the Board of Trustees .
↑ See review by Jürgen Geiss: Minnereden between handwriting and letterpress . In: IASLonline of February 12, 2014.
↑ See the review by Sandra Linden in: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 133 (2014), pp. 460–466, here 465: “With the 'Handbuch Minnereden', Jacob Klingner and Ludger Lieb have a meritorious, knowledgeable and reliable compendium created, which opens up a large, so far only incompletely evaluated material pool for medieval research and makes it accessible for a variety of questions. The research into the Minnereden is placed on a new and solid basis with the manual, which without question has to be regarded as the new Medieval standard work. "

personal data
SURNAME	Klingner, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Klingner, Jacob Georg Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German literary scholar and editor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reutlingen
DATE OF DEATH	May 26, 2020
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Obituary notice of Dr. Jacob Georg Cornelius Klingner on May 28, 2020, accessed on June 10, 2020.

[2] See directory of Germanists at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

[3] See website of the Free University of Berlin .

[4] Directory of the Board of Trustees .

[5] See review by Jürgen Geiss: Minnereden between handwriting and letterpress . In: IASLonline of February 12, 2014.

[6] See the review by Sandra Linden in: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 133 (2014), pp. 460–466, here 465: “With the 'Handbuch Minnereden', Jacob Klingner and Ludger Lieb have a meritorious, knowledgeable and reliable compendium created, which opens up a large, so far only incompletely evaluated material pool for medieval research and makes it accessible for a variety of questions. The research into the Minnereden is placed on a new and solid basis with the manual, which without question has to be regarded as the new Medieval standard work. "