Joseph Seemüller

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Joseph Eusebius Seemüller (born October 15, 1855 in Währing , † January 20, 1920 in St. Martin am Techelsberg ) was an Austrian linguist, Germanist and university lecturer.

Life

The son of a governor's office - Official Zials attended from 1866 to 1873, the Vienna Schottengymnasium and was there from the Germanists Hugo Mareta educated. From 1873 to 1876 he studied German and classical philology at the University of Vienna with Richard Heinzel , Karl Tomaschek and Wilhelm von Hartel . In 1877, Joseph Seemüller received his doctorate from Heinzel with the dissertation “The manuscripts and sources of Williram's German Paraphrase of the Song of Songs ” supervised by Wilhelm Scherer in Strasbourg . phil. and completed his habilitation in 1879 - also with a paper on Williram. Until 1890 he taught German as a grammarian at Viennese high schools. In 1890 Joseph Seemüller became a professor for ancient German studies at the University of Innsbruck . Josef Schatz , the researcher of the “whole Bavarian dialect area”, did his doctorate and habilitation there on topics from dialectology . In 1905 Joseph Seemüller - as full professor of German language and literature at the University of Vienna - succeeded Heinzel.

In the years up to 1912 he edited Middle High German Austrian texts (see also works below) and, as a university teacher, devoted himself to the training of high school teachers. In order to study German dialects, he made sound recordings in the Vienna phonogram archive.

In 1912 he ended his professional activity due to illness. But when his successor Carl von Kraus left Vienna for Munich in 1917, he stepped in and taught until shortly before his death.

Honors

Works

editor

  • Seifried Helbling (alleged author): The little Lucidarius. Edited and explained by Joseph Seemüller (reprint of the edition Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, Halle an der Saale 1886), Olms, Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-487-07898-8 , 392 pages.

editor

  • Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Languages: German / Middle High German.
    • German chronicles and other history books of the Middle Ages. Volume 5: Ottokar's Austrian rhyming chronicle. Based on the transcripts of Franz Lichtenstein. Weidmann, Berlin 1890. Half volume 1, 720 pages OCLC 494718183 .
    • German chronicles and other history books of the Middle Ages. Volume 5: Ottokar's Austrian rhyming chronicle. Based on the transcripts of Franz Lichtenstein. Weidmann, Berlin 1893. Half volume 2, 719 pages OCLC 493159160 .
    • German chronicles and other history books of the Middle Ages. Volume 6: Austrian chronicle of the 95 dominions. Weidmann, Berlin 1906–1909. 276 pages
    • Ottokar's Styrian rhyming chronicle. Based on the transcripts of Franz Lichtenstein. 2 volumes. (MGH Deutsche Chroniken V, 1–2), Hanover 1890–1893.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Digitalized version of the dissertation, Trübner , Strasbourg 1877
  2. ↑ 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, Volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 222.
personal data
SURNAME Seemüller, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seemüller, Joseph Eusebius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian linguist, Germanist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Currency ring
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1920
Place of death St. Martin am Techelsberg