Kurt Glaser (Romanist)

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Kurt Glaser

Kurt Glaser (born May 25, 1880 in Wetzlar , † December 16, 1946 in Gießen ) was a German Romanist .

Life

Glaser attended high school in Wetzlar, where his father Adalbert Glaser was a high school professor . After graduating from high school on February 19, 1898, he studied philology at the Hessian Ludwig University . Not yet 18 years old and of a not very robust nature, he joined the Corps Starkenburgia as a connoisseur at Easter 1898 . It was after three good Mensuren recipiert, casting left but study half after three semesters. He later received the corps bow and soon after the ribbon .

On 30 July 1902 he was in casting summa cum laude for Dr. phil. PhD . In the winter semester of 1902/03 he passed the state examination with distinction. He completed the practical preparatory service in higher education in Essen , Mülheim an der Ruhr and Moers . In the summer of 1904 he studied again in Paris. From May 1905 was a teacher at the secondary school in Marburg. He married Bertha Fabricius , the daughter of his corps brother Wilhelm Fabricius .

In 1912 he completed his habilitation with the thesis Contributions to the history of political literature in France in the second half of the 16th century (partial print Marburg 1912). Since 1921 ao professor in Gießen, he received the ribbon of the Corps Guestphalia Marburg in 1922 . In 1929 he followed Dietrich Behrens as a professor . A stroke he suffered in 1935 was repeated in 1938 and prevented him from continuing to work. He handed over the publication of the Romance section of the literary journal for Germanic and Romance philology to his pupil Walter Gottschalk . He died at the age of 66. The funeral service was in the new cemetery in Giessen. After the cremation , the ashes came to Wetzlar.

Works

  • Montesquieu's theory of the origin of law. Marburg 1907.
  • Georges Rodenbach, the poet of the dead Bruges. Marburg 1917.
  • On the change in meaning in French. Marburg 1922.
  • France and its institutions. Bielefeld 1923.
  • Old French reader of the later Middle Ages. Hall a. P. 1926.
  • Neologism and feeling for language in French today. Giessen 1930.
  • La psychologie du peuple français. Leipzig 1930.

literature

  • Albert Dambron in: Hans Georg Gundel et al. (Ed.): Gießen scholars in the first half of the 20th century. 1st part, Marburg 1982, pp. 287-297.
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”. 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 388, 726.
  • Der Vermögensverwalter , Report No. 4 (January 1947), p. 2 ff. (Obituary by Ernst Metz)
  • Glaser, Kurt , in: Joseph Walk (Ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 114

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 37 , 552; 98 , 309.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The dimensions and weights of French. A Contribution to Lexicography and the History of Meaning (Berlin 1903)
personal data
SURNAME Glaser, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glaser, Otto Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1946
Place of death to water