Karl Müllenhoff

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Karl Viktor Müllenhoff (born September 8, 1818 in Marne , † February 19, 1884 in Berlin ) was a German scientist and Germanic Medievalist .

Life

Karl Viktor Müllenhoff was the second eldest son of the Marner merchant Johann Anton Müllenhoff and Anna née Peters. He attended grammar school in Meldorf from 1830 to 1837 and then studied in Kiel , Leipzig and Berlin . During his studies in 1837 he became a member of the Albertina Kiel fraternity .

In 1854 Müllenhoff became professor for German literature and antiquity at the University of Kiel and in 1858 professor for German philology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University (since 1947 Humboldt University in Berlin ). In 1861 he joined the Lawless Society in Berlin . In 1871 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He lived in Schellingstrasse 7 (Berlin-Tiergarten) until 1875, and moved into a house on Lützowufer in the same district around 1880.

In 1863, Müllenhoff developed the theory of the continuity of the written language since Old High German times. The German antiquity he wrote, mainly based on philology, represents a not insignificant contribution to the history of the Teutons , although it was rather indirectly influential and is now often overtaken by more recent works. It is considered to be Müllenhoff's main work, but it is incomplete because other planned volumes never appeared and, apart from the first volume, all other published volumes could no longer be published by Müllenhoff himself.

In 1884 he was buried in the old St. Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg, Großgörschenstraße 12-14. The tomb - a black syenite obelisk  - has been preserved. His grave has been dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave since 1980 .

In June 1896 a street 2a in the Professorenviertel in Berlin-Kreuzberg, laid out according to the development plan, Section II, was given the name Müllenhoffstraße.

Works

  • Legends, fairy tales and songs from the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg . Kiel 1845 ( books.google.nl )
  • To old Italian linguistics . Hall 1852
  • On the history of the Nibelunge distress . Brunswick 1855
  • Arthur Amelung, Oskar Jänicke, Karl Viktor Müllenhoff: Ortnit: und die Wolfdietriche . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1871–1873
  • Paradigms on German grammar: for use in lectures . 5th edition Hertz, Berlin 1881
  • German archeology . 5 volumes, Berlin 1870–1908
  • K. Müllenhoff (Ed.): Monuments of German poetry and prose from the VIII. – XII. Century . 3rd ed. by E. von Steinmeyer. Weidmann, Berlin 1892. 2 volumes, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-6038

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Viktor Müllenhoff  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Karl Müllenhoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.teuten.de/geschichte/bekannte-teuten/#Muellenhoff
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 174.
  3. ^ Müllenhoff, Karl . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1865, part 1, p. 383. Müllenhoff, Karl . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1880, part 1, p. 653.
  4. ↑ a b Müllenhoffstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Müllenhoff, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müllenhoff, Karl Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Marne
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1884
Place of death Berlin