Karl August Hahn

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Karl August Hahn (born June 14, 1807 in Heidelberg , † February 20, 1857 in Vienna ) was a German - Austrian philologist and Germanist . He was a professor of German language and literature as well as philology at the universities in Heidelberg , Prague and Vienna .

Life

Karl August was born as the son of the Grand Ducal Baden postal secretary Johann Friedrich Hahn. He attended high school in Heidelberg from 1817 , which he left with the Abitur in 1824 . In the same year, until 1830, he studied classical philology at the University of Heidelberg and two semesters at the University of Halle . After completing his studies, he went to St. Aubin in French-speaking Switzerland , where he taught German as a private tutor to a family until 1831 . Due to his teaching activity, he dealt intensively with the works of Theodor Heinsius and Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse as well as with Jacob Grimm's grammar.

Since May 1833 he was in lively correspondence with Jacob Grimm, who advised him to copy Middle High German manuscripts and study Karl Lachmann's editions. Hahn used the extensive manuscript collection of the Heidelberg University Library and from 1838 the collections of the Viennese Court Library . As early as 1838 he published Otte with the Beard by Konrad von Würzburg and a year later Smaller Poems by the Stricker , which he dedicated to Jacob Grimm. Both works were included in the library series of the entire German national literature .

In 1839 Hahn received his doctorate from the University of Halle and qualified as a lecturer in German at the University of Heidelberg . In 1840 his poems of the XII. and XIII. Century as well as in 1842 and 1847 both parts of his main work Middle High German Grammar . Another part of New High German Grammar was published in 1848. With the appearance of the New High German Grammar, he received an extraordinary professorship at Heidelberg University.

In 1850 he accepted the call as a full professor of philology at the University of Prague. His work The Real Songs of the Nibelungs was also published in Prague in 1851 . After Lachmann's criticism and in 1852 his Old High German Grammar was printed. In the edition of the Nibelungenlied , Jacob Grimm discovered that the number of stanzas in Lachmann's songs is divisible by seven, which led to a dispute among German philologists about the original form of the Nibelungenlied. Hahn published further articles in the magazine for German antiquity and German literature . In 1852 he received a full professorship in philology at the University of Vienna, where he also became a member of the grammar school examination committee.

After a hemorrhage in February 1857, from which he could no longer recover, Karl August Hahn died a few days later on February 20, at the age of 49, in Vienna.

Publications (selection)

  • Otte with the beard. Quedlinburg 1838. ( digitized )
  • Short poems by the knitter. Quedlinburg 1839. ( digitized )
  • Poems of the XII. and XIII. Century. Quedlinburg 1840. ( digitized )
  • Of the?? younger Titurel. Quedlinburg 1842. ( digitized )
  • Middle High German grammar. Part 1: Phonology and inflection theory. Frankfurt am Main 1842. ( digitized )
  • Middle High German grammar. Part 2: Word formation. Frankfurt am Main 1847. ( digitized )
  • New High German grammar. The doctrine of letters and endings. Frankfurt am Main 1848. ( digitized )
  • Selection from Ulfila's Gothic translation of the Bible. With a dictionary and a floor plan for Gothic letter and inflection theory. Heidelberg 1849. ( digitized )
  • The real songs from the Nibelungs. After Lachmann's criticism. Prague 1851. ( digitized )
  • Old high German grammar. With some reading pieces and glosses. Prague 1852. ( digitized )
  • Real songs by Gudrun based on Müllenhoff's review. Vienna 1853. ( digitized )
  • Auszwal from Gottfrids von Straszburg Tristan. Vienna 1855. ( digitized )

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Karl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Carl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian philologist, Germanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1857
Place of death Vienna