Karl Bartsch

Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad Bartsch (born February 25, 1832 in Sprottau , † February 19, 1888 in Heidelberg ) was a German medievalist and classical philologist who founded the first German Institute in Germany at the University of Rostock .

Life

Karl Bartsch was born the son of an artillery officer and Friederike von Winterfeld. In Gleiwitz , where the family later lived, he attended the Catholic grammar school and then switched to the grammar school in Breslau in order to cultivate his poetic preferences. From 1849 he studied classical philology at the University of Wroclaw and attended lectures in German with Karl Weinhold . In 1851 he went to Berlin and heard lectures from Wilhelm Grimm and Heymann Steinthal . He completed his doctorate ( De veteris theodiscae linguae praesertim Otfridi arte metrica ) in March 1853 in Halle (Saale) . At first he wanted to be an actor . Then Bartsch tried to get a job in the civil service, but was unsuccessful. He therefore took up the offer to take a library trip to Paris , London and Oxford to copy handwritten records of troubadours . After his return he became a tutor to a baron .

In autumn 1855 Bartsch got the position of curator at the library of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . However, after disputes with its founder, he left Nuremberg and moved to Rostock in 1858, where he founded the first German Institute in Germany on June 11 of the same year. There he worked until 1871 as a professor of German and Romance studies and was twice elected rector. Then he was appointed professor of Germanic and Romance philology at the University of Heidelberg , where he taught until his death.

Karl Bartsch died shortly before his 56th birthday.

Awards

Knight's Cross of the Kgl. Swedish North Star Order (1868)
Knight's Cross of the House Order of the Wendish Crown (1871)
Councilor (1871)
Privy Councilor (1873)
Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht (1877)
Knight's Cross of the Order of the Italian Crown (1878)
Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Zähringer Löwen (1880)
Oak leaves for the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Zähringer (1881)
Royal Prussian Order of the Crown 3rd Class (1881)
Secret Council 2nd Class (1886)

Fonts (selection)

Albrecht von Halberstadt and Ovid in the Middle Ages. Quedlinburg-Leipzig 1861 (= library of all German national literature , 38); Reprint Amsterdam 1965.
Chrestomathie de l'ancien Français (VIIIe – XVe siècles), accompagnée d'une grammaire et d'un glossaire. Leipzig 1866.
German song poet from the 12th to 14th centuries. 2nd edition, Stuttgart 1879.
as editor: Ruperto Carola. 1386-1886. Illustrated festival chronicle of the V. Säcular celebration of the University of Heidelberg . Petters, Heidelberg 1886.
The old German manuscripts of the university library in Heidelberg. Heidelberg 1887 (= catalog of the manuscripts of the university library in Heidelberg. The old German manuscripts. Volume 1).
Legends, fairy tales and customs from Mecklenburg , 1879/1880
Correspondence between the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and Karl Bartsch, Franz Pfeiffer and Gabriel Riedel , ed. by Günter Breuer, Jürgen Jaehrling and Ulrich Schröter. (Correspondence between the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Critical edition in individual volumes. Vol. 2.) Hirzel, Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-7776-1141-7

literature

Hans Eggers: Bartsch, Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 613 ( digitized version ).
Wolfgang Golther : Bartsch, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 749-752.
Till R. Kuhnle: Translating the Middle Ages: The philologist Karl Bartsch , in: Dante Alighieri: The divine comedy in translation by Karl Bartsch (1877) with illustrations by Sandro Botticelli, introduced and commented by Till R. Kuhnle. marix, Wiesbaden 2010.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Bartsch - Sources and full texts

Commons : Karl Bartsch - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by Karl Bartsch at Zeno.org .
Literature by and about Karl Bartsch in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Karl Bartsch in the German Digital Library
Literature about Karl Bartsch in the state bibliography MV
Entry on Karl Bartsch in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Critical edition of Karl Bartsch's translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy on academia.edu

Individual evidence

^ New Yearbooks for Philology and Education 1871, p. 253
^ Stephanie Dressler: Bartsch, Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 88–90, here: p. 88.

personal data
SURNAME	Bartsch, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bartsch, Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 25, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sprottau
DATE OF DEATH	February 19, 1888
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] New Yearbooks for Philology and Education 1871, p. 253

[2] Stephanie Dressler: Bartsch, Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 88–90, here: p. 88.