Karl von Spieß

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Karl von Spieß (born April 20, 1880 in Vienna , † July 1, 1957 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian teacher and folklorist .

Life

Karl von Spieß studied botany and completed his studies with a doctorate . He worked as a teacher first at the KK Maximilian-Gymnasium Vienna , then from 1907 as a teacher of natural history at the Imperial-Royal State Upper-Gymnasium in Wiener Neustadt and from 1912 to 1925 at the KK Elisabeth-Gymnasium Vienna. From 1925 he lived as a private scholar. He contributed articles to the “correspondence sheet of the German Society for Anthropology , Ethnology and Prehistory” published by Georg Thilenius . Von Spieß corresponded with Georg Hüsing and Wolfgang Schultz about the collaboration in comparative myth research. After the annexation of Austria , von Spieß was in contact with the Rosenberg office . For the so-called high school of the NSDAP , which is currently under construction , he was given the task of expanding and managing the "Research Center for Mythology", which was represented in Vienna and in competition with the SS mythology research based on Rudolf Much with its " Research Association of German Ahnenerbe " was standing.

The assessments of Karl von Spieß's work varied widely. After the Second World War, von Spieß, who wanted to examine the history of culture and religion on a racial basis, was accused of being obviously influenced by National Socialism. The reverse glass painting researcher Friedrich Knaipp (1907–1982), however, viewed him positively as a serious scientist .

Publications (selection)

  • Germanic heritage in German folk art . In: Ernst Otto Thiele (arrangement): The Germanic heritage in German folk culture. The lectures of the 1st German Folklore Day in Braunschweig , autumn 1938, Munich: Hoheneichen 1939, pp. 34–56.
  • German folklore as a developer of German culture , Stubenrauch Verlag, Berlin, 1943

As editor

  • Ethnology and myths customer , Journal of "mythological school", referring to Leopold von Schroeder called
  • German Fairy Tales - German World , Stubenrauch Verlag, Berlin, 1939, together with the narrative researcher Edmund Mudrak (1894–1965)
  • House book of German fairy tales , Verlag Walter Krieg (Lechner), Herbert Stubenrauch Verlagbuchhandlung, Vienna, 1944, also with Edmund Mudrak

literature

  • The Berlin University in the Nazi Era: Volume II: Departments and Faculties , ed. v. Rüdiger vom Bruch, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3515086587 , pp. 139–140.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ see e.g. B. Mitchell G. Ash and Wolfram Nieß (eds., 2010): Humanities in National Socialism: the example of the University of Vienna , p. 213 f. ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Spit, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1957
Place of death innsbruck