Julius Wahle

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Four Weimar Germanists: Max Hecker , Hans Wahl , Hans Gerhard Gräf and Julius Wahle (around 1918). Photo by Louis Held .

Julius Wahle (born February 15, 1861 in Vienna , † November 7, 1940 in Dresden ) was an Austro-German literary scholar who became known, among other things, as the editor of the letters of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

Life

Grave of dr. Julius Wahle at the New Jewish Cemetery in Dresden

Wahle studied with Erich Schmidt , received his doctorate in 1885 and from 1886 worked as an archivist at the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar , which he took over in 1921. He was u. a. with Max Hecker collaborator on the Weimar edition of Goethe's works. In 1933, as a Jew, he was forced to leave the Goethe Society . Wahle died in Dresden in 1940. His grave is located in the New Jewish Cemetery there .

Works

Wahle's first publication on Goethe was published in 1892 by the Goethe Society Weimar: Das Weimarer Hoftheater under Goethe's direction. Edited from new sources by Julius Wahle. In 1896 Wahle's biography about the bookseller and antiquarian Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (1787-1859) was published. In 1908 Wahle and Bernhard Suphan published from Goethe's archive: The first Weimar collection of poems in facsimile reproduction . In 1924 Wahle and Victor Klemperer published Vom Geiste neue Literaturforschung - Festschrift for Oskar Walzel .

Also published:

  • Poems by Goethe to Frau v. Stone. Edited in facsimile format and with an afterword by Julius Wahle . Weimar 1924.
  • Vimariensia for Max Hecker. Presented for the 60th birthday. With a foreword by Julius Wahle. Weimar 1930.

such as

  • Finds and research. A festival offering for Julius Wahle on February 15, 1921 / presented by Werner Deetjen ... Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1921.

Awards

Wahle became a professor in 1908. On December 30, 1910, Julius Wahle was the first person ever to be honored with the Goethe Society Weimar's highest distinction, the Goethe Golden Medal . On Wahle's 60th birthday, his colleagues around Werner Deetjen published the Festschrift Funde und Forschungen in his honor .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DNB 362998809
  2. ↑ DNB 1030995478
  3. ↑ DNB 579986659
  4. ↑ DNB 579443159
  5. ↑ DNB 579986969
  6. ↑ DNB 577985051
  7. ↑ DNB 579427501
  8. ↑ http://www.goethe-gesellschaft.de/docs/460.html
  9. ↑ DNB 579427501
  10. ↑ DNB 579427501/04
personal data
SURNAME Choose, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German literary scholar and editor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's letters
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1940
Place of death Dresden