Julius Schwietering

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Julius Schwietering (born May 25, 1884 in Engter ; † July 21, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German philologist and folklorist .

Life

The son of a Protestant pastor attended high school in Clausthal and Göttingen , after graduating from high school in 1903, Schwietering studied law for one semester in Freiburg i.Br. , then German, English, Protestant theology and folklore in Göttingen. In 1908 he received his doctorate with Edward Schröder in Göttingen with a thesis Singen und Sagen . In 1909 he became a research assistant and in 1914 an assistant at the Museum of Hamburg History . In 1921 he completed his habilitation in German language and literature at the University of Hamburg , and then taught in Hamburg as a private lecturer. In 1923 he became director of the Kunstgewerbe- und Historisches Museum Bremen. From 1924 to 1928 he was a regular associate professor for German language and literature at the University of Leipzig , at the same time he was given a teaching position for folklore. From 1928 to 1932 he was a full professor at the University of Münster as the successor to Artur Hübner , and from 1932 to 1938 he was a full professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main as the successor to Hans Naumann . From 1938 to 1945 Schwietering (again as Huebner's successor) was a full professor of German language and literary history at the University of Berlin, where he was also head of the Old German Department of the German Department. Finally, from 1945 to 1952, he again taught as a full professor of German literary history and language in Frankfurt am Main, where he was also dean in 1948. After his retirement he received several visiting professorships in the USA, and in 1952 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago .

Schwietering worked on an interdisciplinary basis. He combined "linguistic and literary text analyzes with folklore realism and theological issues to create an innovative 'sociological folklore" and literary sociology. " including Mathilde Hain , Bodo Mergell and Friedrich Ohly .

In the field of German studies, he mainly dealt with German poetry of the Middle Ages. In his main work "The German Poetry of the Middle Ages" he emphasized the inner context of the Middle Ages as a separate epoch and emphasized the foundation of courtly poetry through Christian piety. His concept of community in the sense of a collective psyche was based on the sociologist Alfred Vierkandt and thus distinguished himself from the National Socialist blood-and-soil principle .

In 1928 Schwietering was elected the first chairman of the newly founded Folklore Commission for Westphalia , which he gave up after moving to Frankfurt in early 1933. From 1939 Schwietering was editor of the magazine for German antiquity and German literature . From 1939 to 1945 he was a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, from 1940 a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and from 1946 until his death a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the history of the spear and sword in the 12th century. Hamburg 1912.
  • The humble formula of Middle High German poets. Berlin 1921.
  • The German poetry of the Middle Ages. Potsdam 1932–1941, new edition 1957.
  • Parzival's fault. In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature. Volume 81, 1944, pp. 44-68; also in: Julius Schwietering: Philological writings. Edited by Friedrich Ohly and Max Wehrli . Munich 1969, pp. 362-384.
  • Parzival's fault. Frankfurt a. M. 1946.

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Individual evidence

  1. Stefan Jordan: Schwietering, Julius, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie Vol. 24 (2010), pp. 84–85 online version