Klaus von See

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Klaus von See (born August 10, 1927 in Altendorf , Lower Saxony ; † August 30, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Scandinavian and Germanistic medievalist , philologist , historian and legal historian . He was a professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Klaus von See studied history, German and Scandinavian studies at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1953 from the historian Hermann Aubin . After completing a law degree, his interest in Germanic and especially Scandinavian philology came to the fore in 1957 when he took up an assistant position at the Hamburg “German Studies Seminar”.

In 1962 von See became Old Norse Legal Words with the legal-historical-philological work supervised by the Kieler Old Norse, Hans Kuhn . Habilitation in philological studies on the legal conception and disposition of the Germanic peoples . Immediately afterwards, he was appointed to a professorship for German Philology at the University of Frankfurt am Main appointed , he held until his retirement held 1995th

He declined offers to the universities of Saarbrücken in 1963, Cologne 1965, Kiel 1968, Bonn 1976 and stayed in Frankfurt. The expansion of the Nordic department of the “German Seminar”, continuously promoted by the stay negotiations, enabled the establishment of an independent “Institute for Scandinavian Studies” in 1976, of which von See became the first director.

As the general editor of the 25-volume work New Handbook of Literary Studies, he did not organize the work - like the old handbook edited by Oskar Walzel - according to national literature , but according to epochs, so from the outset it was comparative . Since 1993, von See has been in charge of the DFG long-term project " Edda -Commentar" (commentary on the songs of the Edda), which he initiated and designed and which was completed in 2019.

Awards

Klaus von See was a Knight of the Dannebrog Order , Honorary Life Member of the Viking Society for Northern Research in London and holder of the Knight's Cross of the Icelandic Order of Falcons .

Fonts (selection)

as an author
  • Old Norse legal words. Philological studies on the legal understanding and disposition of the Germanic peoples (Hermaea / NF; vol. 16). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1962 (habilitation thesis).
  • Germanic verse art (Metzler Collection). Metzler, Stuttgart 1967.
  • German Teutonic ideology. From humanism to the present . Athenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1970.
  • Germanic heroic legend. Substances, problems, methods; an introduction . 2nd Edition. VG Athenaion, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-7997-7032-1 (EA Wiesbaden 1971).
  • Barbarians, Germans, Aryans. The search for the identity of the Germans . Winter, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-8253-0210-5 .
  • Commentary on the songs of the Edda . Winter, Heidelberg 1997–2019 (7 vols., Together with Beatrice La Farge, Katja Schulz and others).
  • Europe and the North in the Middle Ages . Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0935-5 .
  • The Göttingen Seven . Critique of a legend (Contributions to the recent history of literature / 3; Vol. 155). 3. Edition. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1058-2 (EA Heidelberg 1997).
  • Freedom and community. Völkisch-national thinking in Germany between the French Revolution and the First World War . Winter, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8253-1217-8 .
  • Royalty and state in the Scandinavian Middle Ages . Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1378-6 (plus dissertation, University of Hamburg).
  • Texts and theses. Disputes in German and Scandinavian history . Winter, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-8253-1433-2 (with a foreword by Julia Zernack).
  • Ideology and philology. Essays on the history of culture and science (Frankfurt contributions to German studies; Vol. 44). Winter, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-8253-5221-8 .
as editor
as translator
  • The Jütsche law . Valdemar II. King of Denmark ("Den jyske lov"). Böhlau, Weimar 1960 (translated from the old Danish).

literature

  • Gerd Wolfgang Weber (Ed.): Idea, Shape, History. Studies on European cultural tradition. Festschrift Klaus von See . University Press, Odense 1988, ISBN 87-7492-697-7 (with a foreword on the work and science of the Germanist Klaus von See and a bibliography Klaus von Sees until 1988, pp. 713-719).
  • Bibliography Klaus von Sees from 1989 to 2002 . In: Texts and Theses. Disputes in German and Scandinavian history . Winter, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-8253-1433-2 , pp. 305-309.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009. 22nd edition. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 .
  • Notker Hammerstein: The Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Vol. 2: Post-war period and Federal Republic 1945–1972 . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-0550-2 , pp. 567-570.
  • Julia Zernack: Klaus von See 1927–2013. In: European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 44, 1 (2014), pp. 1–3.

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personal data
SURNAME See, Klaus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, Scandinavian scholar, Germanist, historian, Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Altendorf , Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2013
Place of death Frankfurt am Main