Julius Petersen (literary scholar)

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Julius Petersen

Julius Petersen (born November 5, 1878 in Strasbourg , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † August 22, 1941 in Murnau am Staffelsee , Upper Bavaria ) was a German literary scholar.

Life

Julius Petersen is the son of the Reichstag deputy and Reich judge Julius Petersen . He attended the Neue Nikolaischule Leipzig , where he passed the Abitur examination in 1897. He began to study German philology , art history and philosophy at the University of Lausanne and the Ludwig Maximilians University . In 1898 he was reciprocated in the Corps Suevia Munich . As inactive , he moved to the University of Leipzig and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . His teachers included Albert Köster , Wilhelm Dilthey , Erich Schmidt and Heinrich Wölfflin . With a doctoral thesis with Gustav Roethe he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1909 he completed his habilitation with Hermann Paul in Munich. He was a private lecturer for two years and in 1911 received an associate professor for Germanic philology. In 1912 he moved to Yale University in New Haven and from there to the University of Basel in August of the same year . In 1914/15 he was professor for modern German language and literature at the new Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After the First World War , he returned to the University of Berlin in 1920, where he succeeded Erich Schmidt as Professor of Modern German Literary History . From 1920 to 1933 Petersen was co-director, from 1933 until his death in 1941 director of the Germanic Seminary. From 1923 he headed the newly founded Theater Studies Institute with Max Herrmann , from 1933 alone . Lecture tours took him to Portugal (1927), North America (1933), England and Estonia (1935).

Petersen was one of the most influential Germanists of the interwar period . He was instrumental in the DC circuit of his discipline with the ideology of National Socialism involved. Since 1934 he was the editor of the magazine Euphorion , in which he wrote in 1934 in his essay Die Sehnsucht nach dem Third Reich in German legend and poetry : "Belief in the divine mission of a savior and leader for good becomes religious certainty".

From 1926 to 1938 he was President of the Goethe Society . In 1922 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . From 1927 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

tomb

He is buried in the Evangelical Churchyard Nikolassee .

science

J. Petersen: Frankfurt Passion Play around 1450

Petersen's teaching and research focus was the Middle High German language and literature as well as German literature from the 16th to the end of the 19th century. He gained renown as the editor of the works and writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich Schiller and Friedrich Hölderlin , such as the Welt-Goethe-Ausgabe (1936–1940; laid out in 50 volumes, of which only 8 appeared), the Große Stuttgarter Edition of the works of Hölderlin (1943–1985) and the Schiller National Edition (published since 1943; prepared by himself: Volume 1, Poems 1796–1799 ).

Petersen planned a large-scale work in which he wanted to develop a general overview and systematics of literary studies. The two-volume work was to be entitled The Science of Poetry , with a division of the first volume, Work and Poets, into two books, and the second volume, Poetry in Space and Time, into three books. The first volume was published in Berlin in 1939. A second edition supplemented and corrected in detail from the estate, which was also expanded to include an introduction to the second volume, was published in 1944 by Erich Trunz .

Honors

Fonts

  • The German National Theater. Five lectures, given in February and March 1917 in the Free Deutsche Hochstift in Frankfurt am Main . Leipzig, Berlin 1919 (= supplement to the magazine for German teaching ).
  • The definition of the essence of German romanticism. An introduction to modern literary studies . Leipzig 1926.
  • Goethe's Faust on the German stage. A consideration of the century . Leipzig 1929.
  • The literary generations . Berlin 1930.
  • From the time of Goethe. Collected essays on the literature of the classical age . Leipzig 1932.
  • The longing for the Third Reich in German legend and poetry . Stuttgart 1934.
  • The science of poetry. System and methodology of literary studies . Vol. 1. Berlin 1939.
  • Historical drama and national myth. Borderline questions on the present tense of drama . Stuttgart 1940.
  • Three Goethe speeches . Leipzig 1942.
  • The science of poetry. System and methodology of literary studies . 2nd Edition. Vol. 1. with corrections and additions and introduction to vol. 2. Edited and edited by Erich Trunz. Berlin 1944.

editor

  • German literary newspaper (1924–1941)
  • with Hermann Pongs : Euphorion (from 1934 under the title Poetry and Volkstum ; 1928–1938).
  • with Georg Minde-Pouet : Yearbook of the Kleist Society (1921–1930, 1933–1938).
  • The literature archive . Publications of the Literature Archive Society in Berlin (1911–1937).
  • with Alois Brandl : Palaestra. Studies and texts from German and English philology (1922–1941).
  • with Friedrich Panzer : German Research (1921-1940).
  • Research into theater history (1926–1942).

literature

Web links

Commons : Julius Petersen (literary theorist)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 114/1134.
  2. ^ Dissertation: Schiller and the stage .
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: The knighthood in the representation of Johannes Rothe .
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 454.
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1941
Place of death Murnau am Staffelsee