Karl Fehr (literary scholar)
Karl Fehr (born August 8, 1910 in Berg am Irchel ; † July 3, 1994 in Herisau ) was a Swiss literary scholar .
Life
Fehr was born in 1910 as the son of the farmer Balthasar Fehr and his wife Luise. After attending a grammar school in Winterthur , he studied classical philology and German at the University of Zurich from 1930 . In 1935 he received his doctorate there with the dissertation Die Mythen bei Pindar . From 1937 to 1963 he was a grammar school teacher for Latin, Greek and German at the Thurgauische Kantonsschule in Frauenfeld , from 1959 he was rector there . In 1950 he completed his habilitation in German-speaking Swiss literature with a work on Jeremias Gotthelf and worked as a private lecturer at the University of Zurich. In 1959 he became adjunct professor for German-speaking Swiss literature in Zurich. He also worked for daily newspapers such as the NZZ and as a lecturer at adult education centers. From 1963 to 1979 he was a lecturer at the Oberseminar of the Canton of Zurich. From 1988 he worked in the field of education for the Pro Senectute . He has published books, including about Jeremias Gotthelf, Gottfried Keller , Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , Josef Vital Kopp and Meta Heusser-Schweizer . He was married to Margrit Stettbacher.
Fonts
- Jeremias Gotthelf. Man, educator, poet, a picture of life. Swiss association of abstinent teachers, Bern 1949.
- The image of the human in Jeremias Gotthelf. Huber, Frauenfeld 1953.
- Realism in Swiss literature. Francke, Bern 1965.
- Josef Vital Kopp. Rex-Verlag, Lucerne 1968.
- Gottfried Keller: information and interpretations. Francke, Munich 1972.
- Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. Rise and fall of his poetic productivity. Francke, Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7720-1551-4 .
literature
- Obituary in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on July 7, 1994
- Obituary in the Landbote on September 10, 1994
- Obituary in the annual report of the University of Zurich 1994/95 (Author: Prof. Peter von Matt)
- Obituary in Thurgauer Jahrbuch , vol. 69, 1994. ( e-periodica.ch )
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Fehr in the catalog of the German National Library
- Charles Linsmayer : Karl Fehr (literary scholar). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Fehr, Karl in Schweizer Lexikon. Volume 2, Lucerne, 1992. Retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, Part 3, p. 317.
- ^ Charles Linsmayer : Karl Fehr (literary scholar). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fehr, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berg am Irchel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd July 1994 |
| Place of death | Herisau |