Josef Körner

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Josef Körner (born April 15, 1888 in Rohatetz near Göding , South Moravia , † May 9, 1950 in Prague ) was an Austrian - Czechoslovakian German studies specialist who made a particular contribution to research into German Romanticism .

Life

Josef Körner, who came from a Jewish family, studied German at the universities of Vienna and Prague and received his doctorate in 1910. He then worked as a secondary school teacher and from 1919 as a high school professor in Prague. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. As a literary historian , he specialized in early romanticism . His habilitation thesis "Romantics and Classics", submitted in 1924, was rejected by August Sauer , which led to public protests from leading literary scholars . Sauer's anti-Semitic successor Herbert Cysarz delayed Körner's admission as a private lecturer until autumn 1930. In the summer of 1929, at Coppet Castle on Lake Geneva, Körner discovered August Wilhelm Schlegel's correspondence from 1804 to 1812, which comprised around 3,000 letters. The 3-volume collection of letters from the Zeit der so-called early romanticism ( crisis years of early romanticism ) was published in 1936/37 and posthumously in 1958. In 1939, he was by the Nazis on racial grounds the Venia legendi withdrawn in late 1944 he was taken to Theresienstadt concentration camp deported. After the end of the war he was initially defamed as a "German" and was only granted a pension from the Czechoslovak government late . In 1949 he completed his “Bibliographisches Handbuch des Deutschen Literatures”, a standard work in literary studies.

Körner's siblings Erna and Max Körner became victims of the Holocaust , he survived the period of racist persecution thanks to his marriage to the Czech Jarmila Smycková, who from 1939 onwards was responsible for family maintenance, as well as their two children Peter (* 1939) and Paula (* 1946 ), had to worry.

Fonts and their editions

  • Research on the Nibelung in German Romanticism . Haessel, Leipzig 1911 (reprint: Scientific. Book Society, Darmstadt 1968)
  • The message of German romanticism to Europe . Benno Filser, Augsburg 1929.
  • as editor: Crisis Years of Early Romanticism. Letters from the Schlegelkreis , 3 vols. (Vols. 1 and 2: Rohrer, Brünn / Vienna / Leipzig 1936/1937; Vol. 3: Francke, Bern 1958).
  • Philological writings and letters , ed. by Ralf Klausnitzer with a foreword by Hans Eichner. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-458-7 .

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SURNAME Körner, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-Czechoslovak German studies specialist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Rohatetz near Göding , South Moravia
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1950
Place of death Prague