Karl Polheim

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Karl Polheim (born June 28, 1883 in Graz , † December 15, 1967 ibid) was an Austrian German studies scholar and university professor at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . During the Nazi era he was rector of the university.

Life

Polheim studied in Graz and Berlin (among others with Andreas Häusler ) and obtained his doctorate in 1907. phil. In 1912 he qualified as a professor at the University of Graz in German philology . In 1924 Polheim was appointed as a regular associate professor in Graz. From 1929 to 1945 he taught as a full professor for German language and literature at the Department of German Philology at the University of Graz. In May 1938 he joined the NSDAP . From August 1939 to 1945 Polheim was rector of the University of Graz. From 1941 to 1943 Polheim was also active as a foreign professor in Zagreb . In December 1944, Polheim handed over the rector's business to Vice-Rector Karl Rauch due to illness. He retired in November 1945.

Between 1940 and 1945 Polheim also acted as chairman of the German Singers Association .

In his research Polheim dealt in particular with the area of literary folklore , i. H. with folk poetry, fairy tales and folk plays from the Eastern Alps. Polheim put together an extensive handwritten collection of works of folk poetry, which also formed the basis for some of the doctoral theses he supervised. Among others, Hanns Koren and Leopold Kretzenbacher did their doctorates at Polheim.

His son Karl Konrad Polheim was full professor of modern German literary history at the University of Bonn from 1967.

Memberships (selection)

literature

  • Leopold Kretzenbacher: In memoriam Karl Polheim. In: Austrian magazine for folklore. Volume 22. Vienna 1968, p. 113ff.
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 132.
  • Walter Höflechner : History of the Karl-Franzens University Graz. From the beginning until 2005. Leykam, Graz 2006, ISBN 3-7011-0058-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 132.
personal data
SURNAME Polheim, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1967
Place of death Graz