Joachim Bumke

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Joachim Bumke (born March 31, 1929 in Berlin ; † October 4, 2011 ibid) was a German Germanist and Medievalist .

Career

Joachim Bumke, born in Berlin in 1929, was by studying German from 1947 to 1953 at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis about Wernher von Elmendorf Dr. phil. PhD. He was then to 1957 research assistant in Heidelberg, where he joined in 1958 with the work of tungsten Willehalm: studies Epenstruktur and sanctity term of outgoing heyday habilitated .

From 1961 to 1962 Bumke was an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University ( USA ), in 1962 he was appointed professor at Harvard University , where he taught until 1965. From 1965 to 1969 Bumke was a full professor at the Free University of Berlin , then until his retirement in 1994 a full professor at the University of Cologne . At the same time he was one of the directors of the Institute for German Language and Literature at the university. Since 1989 he was a member of the Academia Europaea . Successor to Bumke's chair for older German language and literature was his student Ursula Peters . Bumke was primarily concerned with the historical and cultural foundations of medieval literature.

He died on October 4, 2011 at the age of 82 in Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

  • Wolfram's Willehalm. Studies on the structure of epics and the concept of holiness of the late heyday. Winter, Heidelberg 1959 (at the same time: Heidelberg, University, habilitation paper, 1959).
  • Wolfram von Eschenbach (= Metzler Collection. Reality books for Germanists. Department D: History of literature. Vol. 36). Metzler, Stuttgart 1964 (8th, completely revised edition, ibid 2004, ISBN 3-476-18036-0 ).
  • Romance-German literary relations in the Middle Ages. An overview. Winter, Heidelberg 1967.
  • Wolfram von Eschenbach research since 1945. Report and bibliography. = Wolfram von Eschenbach. Fink, Munich 1970.
  • Ministeriality and knight poetry. Research outline. Beck, Munich 1976.
  • Studies on the concept of knight in the 12th and 13th centuries (= Euphorion . Supplements 1, ISSN  0531-2167 ). Winter, Heidelberg 1964 (2nd edition with an appendix: Zum Stand der Ritterforschung 1976. ibid. 1977, ISBN 3-533-02571-3 ; in English: The concept of knighthood in the Middle Ages (= AMS studies in the Middle Ages . no. 4). AMS Press, New York NY 1982, ISBN 0-404-18034-5 ).
  • Patrons in the Middle Ages. The patrons and patrons of court literature in Germany 1150–1300. Beck, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-406-04871-4 .
  • Court culture. Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages (= dtv 4442). 2 volumes. Deutsche Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-423-30170-8 (In Dutch: Hoofse cultuur. Literatuur en samenleving in de full Middeleeuwen (= Aula-boeken. Vol. 837-838). 2 volumes. Het Spectrum Utrecht 1989, ISBN 90-274-1988-4 (Vol. 1), ISBN 90-274-1989-2 (Vol. 2); in English: Courtly culture. Literature and society in the high Middle Ages. University of California Press , Berkeley CA et al. 1991, ISBN 0-520-06634-0 ; in Chinese: Gongting-wenhua. Zhong-shiji-shengqi-di-wenxue-yu-shehui. 2 volumes. Sanlian Shudian, Beijing 2006, ISBN 7-108 -02432-2 ).
  • History of German Literature in the High Middle Ages (= History of German Literature in the Middle Ages. Bd. 2 = dtv 4552). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-30778-1 .
  • History of medieval literature as a task (= Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Lectures. G, Geisteswissenschaften 309). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1991, ISBN 3-531-07309-5 .
  • The four versions of the “Nibelungenklage”. Studies on the transmission history and textual criticism of the courtly epic in the 13th century (= sources and research on literary and cultural history. Vol. 8 = 242). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1996, ISBN 3-11-015076-X .
  • as editor: The "Nibelungenklage". Synoptic edition of all four versions. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1999, ISBN 3-11-016323-3 .
  • The "Erec" Hartmann von Aue. An introduction. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-11-018979-8 .
  • as editor: Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival (= Old German Text Library. No. 119). Edited on the basis of the manuscript D. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-484-20219-1 .

Web links

literature

  • Oliver Junge: He was King Arthur. The Cologne old Germanist Joachim Bumke is dead. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 10, 2011, No. 235, p. 30.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: Joachim Bumke. Academia Europaea, accessed June 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bumke, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German old Germanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2011
Place of death Berlin