Kurt Wildhagen

Kurt Wildhagen (born October 22, 1871 in Moscow , † February 19, 1949 in Heidelberg ), brother of the painter Fritz Wildhagen , was a German scholar, Socratic teacher and editor of the works of Ivan Sergejewitsch Turgenew .

Life

Kurt Wildhagen - a well-known original in Heidelberg in the first half of the 20th century - came from the Bremen - Verdean aristocracy, whom "perhaps a revolutionary head of the family in the middle of the 18th century" (Krischke) had given up. He was born in Moscow , where his father († 1883) had founded a precision mechanics factory as an engineer . His son grew up in Elbing in West Prussia from 1886 , where he graduated from high school in 1891.

1891 Kurt Wildhagen began law studies at the University in Greifswald . In the same year he switched to the University of Berlin , where he gave up law in favor of philosophy after a few semesters . From 1895/96 he studied at the University of Marburg , where he mainly heard from Hermann Cohen . However , he did not finish a dissertation project started with Cohen .

Wildhagen had lived in Heidelberg since about 1898 , where he no longer enrolled and until his death led a life whose rough outline Roland Krischke describes as follows: "He attended lectures, wrote for newspapers, but spent most of the day in the Café where he read and researched or met acquaintances ... especially in the 'Haeberlin', which existed from 1881 to 1932 " and was " one of the intellectual centers of the city in the years before the First World War " .

Wildhagen was a friend of Carlo Philips' , editor and editor of the Südwestdeutsche Rundschau , which was only published in two volumes , Emil Ludwigs , Eugen Herrigels , Wolfgang Frommels , Friedrich Burschells and others. v. a. m.

Works

• From my card box in: Literature and Science. Monthly supplement of the Heidelberger Zeitung. 1910
• Samogon [d. i. KW]: Rendez-Vous of Passions , Merlin Verlag, Heidelberg 1926 (The Russian pseudonym 'Samogon' means something like 'self-distilled schnapps')

In addition, extensive journalistic activity for various journals and newspapers, especially the Heidelberger, which was renamed Badische Post from 1919 . (A selection of these is contained in the book by Roland Krischke mentioned in the lit. on pp. 138–177.)

• Editor of

Ivan Turgenev : Complete Works - In twelve volumes. Translated by FM Balte, Fega Frisch, Ludwig Rubiner , August Scholz, S. Levine, R. v. Walter, Ida Orloff et al. a. [like Wildhagen himself] Volume 1 edited with Otto Buek , otherwise alone. Georg Müller, Munich and Leipzig 1911–1917, continued until 1931 by Propylaen Verlag, Berlin

• Translator from

Nikolai Gogol : The Fiend . With 74 lithographs by Walter Becker. German translation by Kurt Wildhagen. Verlag von Richard Weissbach , Heidelberg 1920 (fourth printing of the Argonautenkreis)

literature

• Roland Krischke and Frieder Hepp (eds.): Kurt Wildhagen 1871-1949. The sage from Heidelberg. A book for the exhibition in the city history department of the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg from November 5, 1997 to January 18, 1998 . HVA, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3825371107 .
• Nina Dmitrieva: The Russian Neo-Kantianism: Marburg in Russia. Historical-philosophical sketches. Moscow 2007, ISBN 978-5-8243-0835-8 .
• Hermann-Peter Eberlein: The sage from Heidelberg. In: The paper. Zweiwochenschrift für Politik, Kunst und Wirtschaft 12 (2009), Issue 3, pp. 18-20.

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Wildhagen in the catalog of the German National Library