Johannes Bolte
Johannes Bolte (born February 11, 1858 in Berlin ; † July 25, 1937 there ) was a German literary scholar , folklorist and storyteller .
Life
After studying in Berlin and Leipzig and receiving his doctorate on Homer (Berlin 1882), Bolte worked from 1880 to 1923 as a high school teacher in Berlin. From 1902 to 1910 he published the journal of the Association for Folklore , and from 1918 to 1930 he was chairman of the Berlin Association for Folklore . In 1920 he was awarded the Leibniz Medal, in 1914 he became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 1922 a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1929 the TH Danzig awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Johannes Bolte's research on the history of materials and motifs is unmatched in the breadth of the view. His extremely extensive oeuvre proved him to be “the outstanding comparative researcher of literature, material and motifs” ( Hannjost Lixfeld ). Only the monumental comments on the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm (five volumes, 1913–1932), abbreviated: "BP", should be emphasized , written with the Slavist Georg Polívka .
Bolte was also a member of the working committee for the creation of the folk song book for male choir , 1904–1906, the first so-called Kaiserliederbuch .
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He was buried in the old cemetery of the St. Jacobi parish. His grave was dedicated as an honor grave in Berlin until 2014 . The Spandauer Bolteweg still reminds of him today.
Publications (selection)
- De monumentis ad Odysseam pertinentibus capita selecta. Dissertatio inauguralis philologica. Universitas Friderica Guilelma. Typis expressit G. Pormetter, Berolini 1882
- The sultan's daughter in the flower garden. In: Journal for German Antiquity. Volume 34, 1890, pp. 18-31.
- Name and characteristics of the fairy tale , Helsinki 1920 edition. Digitized copy from the University and State Library of Düsseldorf
- Testimonies to the history of fairy tales , Helsinki 1921 edition. Ditto [1]
editor
- Old Flemish songs. In the original text with the ways of singing . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1941 ( Insel-Bücherei 290/1).
- with Wilhelm Seelmann-Eggebert : Low German plays of older times . Diedrich Soltau's Verlag, Norden and Leipzig 1895.
literature
- Fritz Boehm: Johannes Bolte. His life and his folklore work . In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 8 (1937), pp. 1–15 and 220–223.
- Hannjost Lixfeld : Bolte, Johannes. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen , Vol. 2 (1979), Col. 603-605.
- Kurt Ranke : Bolte, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 434 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Bolte in the catalog of the German National Library
- portrait
- Obituary, Dutch.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 44.
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Johannes Bolte. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 24, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bolte, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar, folklorist and storyteller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1937 |
| Place of death | Berlin |