Josef Rackl
Josef Rackl (born September 6, 1848 in Altmannstein ; † 1915 ) was a German specialist in German and a teacher .
Life
Josef Rackl was born on September 6, 1848 in Altmannstein, the son of master baker Xaver Rackl. He studied a. a. Literature and history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in 1898 from the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg on the Venetian navigator and explorer Alvise Cadamosto .
Rackl worked as a teacher at schools in Neumarkt and Lindau . After a special exam he was promoted to Royal Professor at the Royal Industrial School in Nuremberg , a forerunner of the Technical University of Nuremberg Georg Simon Ohm .
In 1907, together with Eduard Ebner, he presented a German literary history , which was widely distributed and was reissued in multiple revisions until 1981.
Works
- The journeys of the Venetian Alvise da Cà da Mosto on the west coast of Africa (1455 and 1456) , dissertation, University of Erlangen, 1898.
- The Nuremberg bookseller Johann Philipp Palm, a victim of Napoleonic arbitrariness, C. Koch, Nuremberg, 1906.
- German literary history , 1907, together with Eduard Ebner ; continued after the death of the first author by Karl Hunger , Leo Krell and Leonhard Fiedler. Many editions.
literature
- Michael S. Batts: A History of Histories of German Literature, 1835-1914, Mcgill Queens University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-7735-1140-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Josef Rackl in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rackl, Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rackl, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German specialist in German and teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altmannstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1915 |