Karl Drescher (Germanist)
Karl Maria Drescher (born February 9, 1864 in Frankfurt / Main ; † June 21, 1928 in Breslau ) was a German specialist in German.
Life
Karl Drescher, son of a Frankfurt school supervisor, attended the Realgymnasium in Munich from 1879 to 1882 . He then served as a one-year volunteer . From 1883 to 1885 he worked as a businessman. In 1885 he made up his Abitur at the humanistic grammar school in Korbach and subsequently studied German philology and philosophy at the universities of Marburg , Munich and Berlin . In Breslau he became a member of the Corps Silingia in 1888 . In 1890 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1892 he received the Venia Legendi at the Münster Academy without habilitation, where he taught German language and literature as a private lecturer until 1896. In 1896 he moved to the University of Bonn , where he initially taught German language and literature as a private lecturer and from 1900 as titular professor. From 1906 he taught German language and literature at the University of Breslau, first as an associate honorary professor, from 1909 as an associate professor and from the winter semester 1913/14 as a full honorary professor. On March 28, 1928, he was appointed personal professor. His main research interests were Hans Sachs , Johannes Hartlieb and Martin Luther .
From the summer semester of 1910 to the summer semester of 1911, he held lectures and exercises on German at the University of Berlin. From 1906 to 1928 he was scientific director of the commission for the publication of the works of Martin Luther , the Weimar edition .
He was married to Julie von Heyden-Nerfken since 1893 . The couple had a son, the mineralogist and petrologist Friedrich Karl Drescher-Kaden, and a daughter Charlotte, who married the future general of the cavalry Franz Kreß von Kressenstein in Breslau in 1924 .
Awards
- Secret government council
- Honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Wroclaw, 1913
- Honorary member of the Advisory Board of the German Publication Society in New York, 1922
- Honorary member of the Societas Suecana pro Fide et Christianismo in Stockholm, 1924
Web links
literature
- Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration 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. 403–404 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Reinhold Jauernig: Drescher, Carl Maria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 109 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 893
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drescher, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drescher, Karl Maria; Drescher, Carl Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt / Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1928 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |