Julius Frankenberger

Julius Frankenberger; Drawing by Emil Stumpp , 1931

Julius Frankenberger (born July 3, 1888 in Bürgel , † July 3, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German literary scholar , translator and university professor.

Frankenberger was the son of a foreman at the optics works Carl-Zeiss - Jena . He put the Abitur 1907 in Weimar and studied German and English literature in Jena, where he in 1910 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate from Wolfgang Keller . The subject was inspired by the pedagogue Herman Nohl , whose student Frankenberger was considered. From 1910 to 1912 he worked as a publishing editor for Eugen Diederichs in Jena and was part of the Serakreis . Then he served in World War I , most recently as a lieutenant. In 1918 he was appointed teacher at the Goethe Gymnasium (Frankfurt am Main) , and in 1929 professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Hanover. In 1930 he moved to the new Pedagogical Academy in Halle (Saale) as director , where he was on leave in 1933 and closed in 1934 and relocated to Hirschberg (Silesia) under the new National Socialist director Herbert Freudenthal . Frankenberger was from 1934-1938 a teacher in Neuhaldensleben and from 1939 employee of the Foreign Office in Berlin. In addition, he had a teaching position for English at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin at the Faculty of Foreign Studies, which was assigned to the Reich Security Main Office under Franz Alfred Six . From 1942 Frankenberger was no longer fit for duty due to illness.

Frankenberger translated on behalf of Diederichs' a. a. the philosophical texts by Henri Bergson's Das Lachen (first in 1914, with Walter Fränzel ) as well as matter and memory from French into German. He also interpreted Goethe's Faust II in depth .

Fonts

• Jane Austen and the development of the English bourgeois novel in the 18th century , 1910 [= dissertation in Jena]
• Youth and the stage , with Ludwig Pallat , 1924
• Walpurgis. On the artistic figure of Goethe's Faust , 1926

literature

• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 288–289 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Meike G. Werner: Modernism in the Province: Cultural Experiments in Fin-de-Siècle-Jena , Wallstein, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 978-3-89244-594-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Frankenberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thuringian Literature Council