Karl Barthel (literary historian)

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Karl Barthel (born February 21, 1817 in Braunschweig , † March 22, 1853 in Bad Harzburg or Braunschweig) was a German literary historian , teacher and theologian .

life and work

The son of the painter, draftsman and engraver Friedrich Barthel († 1846) and older brother of the painter Gustav Adolf Barthel attended the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig since 1835 . In 1836 he studied theology and philology in Göttingen . He taught the children of the Brothers Grimm and worked as a teacher at the Bender Institute in Weinheim from 1839 and as a private tutor in Weferlingen from 1842 to 1845 . Already terminally ill with tuberculosis , Barthel returned to Braunschweig in 1845, where he worked as a private teacher and writer. He founded a reading group for German literature and a rescue house for neglected children. In 1853 he received a pastor's position in Bad Harzburg, but died in the spring of that year. His main work is the German national literature of the modern age , which has arisen from lectures . Several works were only edited and published by his brother after Barthel's death.

His nephew was the stage actor Alexander Barthel .

Fonts

  • The German national literature of the modern age. Brunswick 1850.
  • The life and poetry of Hartmann von der Aue. 1854.
  • Ground plan of the Middle High German theory of forms. 1854.
  • The classic period of German national literature in the Middle Ages. (edited by Gottfried Joseph Gabriel Findel ). 1857.

literature

  • Kurt Hoffmeister: Braunschweig writers. Braunschweig 2003, p. 29.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 40f.
  • Ludwig Ferdinand Spehr :  Barthel, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 103 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 41.
  2. ^ Kurt Hoffmeister: Braunschweigs literati. Braunschweig 2003, p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Barthel, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barthel, Karl Johann Franz Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian, teacher and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1853
Place of death Bad Harzburg