Josef Schick (English studies)
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Josef Schick (born December 21, 1859 in Rississen , Kingdom of Württemberg ; † February 13, 1944 in Munich ) was a German English scientist and mathematician .
Life
Josef Schick was the oldest child of the carpenter and farmer Bartholomäus Schick and his wife Rosa Schick nee. Cutter. He grew up with three brothers and two sisters. After elementary school in Rississen, he attended the Latin school in Rottenburg from 1870 to 1873 and then the upper secondary school in Ehingen , where he graduated from high school in autumn 1877. He then studied mathematics and modern languages for four semesters at the University of Tübingen . The boy, who came from a humble background, was only able to attend school and study thanks to financial support from Baron Schenk von Stauffenberg, who was resident at his place of birth. Between 1880 and 1884 he stayed in Munich and Stuttgart, where he worked as a private tutor, did his one-year voluntary military service and attended lectures.
This was followed by a two-year stay in England, which he was able to finance through lectures and private lessons. In Devonshire he met his future wife Mary Butcher. After his stay in England, Schick continued his studies in 1887 at the University of Berlin in the subjects of English and German and received his doctorate in English in 1889 with a dissertation Prolegomena on Lydgate’s Temple of Glas . His main academic teachers were Julius Zupitza , Erich Schmidt and Julius Hoffory . In 1891 he completed his habilitation with an edition of the Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd .
He was then a private lecturer in Berlin from 1891–92 , lecturer and private lecturer at the University of Bonn from 1892–93 and an associate professor at the University of Heidelberg from 1893–96 , before becoming a full professor in 1896 at the newly established chair of English philology at the Ludwig Maximilians -Universität München , where he taught until his retirement in 1925.
Along with Max Freiherr von Waldberg he gave from 1897 to 1928, the literary research out
Honors
In 1913, Schick was made an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , but left the Academy in 1938.
In 1956 Josef-Schick-Straße in Munich- Laim was named after him, in 1961 the Hafengasse in his birthplace Riississen was renamed Prof.-Josef-Schick-Straße.
Publications
- Lydgate's Temple of Glass
- The Making of Hamlet (1902)
- Hamlet in China (1915)
- Corpus Hamleticum , 5 volumes, published in 1912 and 1938
literature
- Gerhard J. Bellinger and Brigitte Regel-Bellinger : Schwabings Ainmillerstrasse and its most important residents. A representative example of Munich's city history from 1888 to today. Norderstedt 2003, pages 151-153 - ISBN 3-8330-0747-8 ; 2nd edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-2883-6 ; E-Book 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6264-9 .
- Jutta Tabataba-Vakili: For the 150th birthday of Professor Josef Schick. ( Memento from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Ehingen direkt (East edition) / Rißbote. Bulletin of the large district town of Ehingen (Danube) for Rississen 51 (2009), No. 51/52/53 of December 18, 2009, pp. 6–7 (PDF file; 2.13 MB)
- Josef Schick on his seventieth birthday 1859, December 21, 1929 (Festschrift). Reisland, Leipzig 1929 (= English Studies, vol. 64, issue 2/3)
Web links
- Literature by and about Josef Schick in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jutta Tabataba-Vakili: For the 150th birthday of Professor Josef Schick.
- ^ Josef Schick: Vita . In: Prolegomena to Lydgate's Temple of Glass. Phil. Diss. Berlin 1889, p. 34 (Latin), digitized in the Internet Archive
- ↑ Literary historical research 1.1897 - 55.1928; accessed on August 3, 2020
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Josef Schick , member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schick, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German English scholar, linguist and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cracks |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1944 |
| Place of death | Munich |