Julius Forssman

Julius Forssman (born September 8, 1879 in Saint Petersburg , † January 18, 1952 in Leipzig ) was a German-Baltic Germanist, Slavist and Scandinavian scholar.

Life

Forssman studied from 1898 German, Slavic, English, philosophy and history at the University of Saint Petersburg with the degree in 1903. There he received his Russian doctorate (habilitation) in 1908 and was there until 1918 private lecturer in German. In 1904 he did his military service in Russia. From 1904 he was a teacher at various schools in St. Petersburg. He also made several study trips to Great Britain and Germany from 1905 to 1912. From 1915 to 1918 he headed the German department of the Pedagogical College for Women in Saint Petersburg. In 1919/20 he was the assistant lecturer in Helsinki (university and business school). From 1921 to 1939 he was a teacher at the German Gymnasium in Riga . In addition, from 1923 he was a teacher and teacher at the Herder Institute in Riga. In 1939 he moved to Poznan (where he stayed until he fled in 1945) after receiving a professorship at the local university. At first he was a teacher there in 1940/41. In 1942 he received the Dr. phil. from the Reich Ministry for Education and Science .

From 1941 to 1945 he was a scheduled associate professor for Indo-European and Nordic philology at the University of Poznan . He was also a member of the NSDAP from 1943 to 1945 and from 1941 to 1944 a member of the National Socialist Lecturer Association and the Reich Colonial Association. After the war, he was a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig from 1945 to 1946 , then a non-scheduled adjunct professor for didactics of the Russian language and culture and from 1948 to 1952 a full professor for Russian. In 1947 he became a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation .

In 1920 he married Ingrid Amalie Flach. He is the father of Bernhard Forssman , who later published some of his writings.

Fonts

• Rationalism and intuition in H. von Kleist's soul attitude and poetry , Riga 1928.
• JK Lavater and the Religious Currents of the Eighteenth Century , Riga 1935.
• Problems of runic research , Riga 1939.
• The Nordic impact in the formation of the Russian state , Poznan 1941.
• Vikings in Eastern Europe with special consideration of the Wartheland , Posen 1944.
• The Nordic influence on the language and folk poetry of the Great Russians , 1945.
• Scandinavian traces in the Old Russian language and poetry , Munich 1967.
• Relations between the ancient Russian princely families and Western Europe , Bern 1970.
• Editor: Michail Lermontov. Poems in a selection , Böhlau 1947

Web links

• Leipzig professor catalog