Leopold Magon

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Leopold Magon (born April 3, 1887 in Düsseldorf , † February 5, 1968 in East Berlin ) was a German German studies scholar , Scandinavian scholar and theater scholar .

Life

Leopold Magon studied Germanic and classical philology at the universities in Leipzig , Tübingen , Berlin and Innsbruck . In 1912 he received his doctorate at the University of Münster with a thesis on Friedrich Rückert The development of Friedrich Rückert up to 1810 and his poetic beginnings illustrated using his handwritten legacy . At this university he became a private lecturer in 1917. In the 1920s, during two study visits to Scandinavia, he compiled a collection of material for his extensive study A Century of Intellectual and Literary Relations between Germany and Scandinavia 1750-1850 . In 1928 he was appointed professor for German and Nordic philology at the University of Greifswald . From 1928 to 1933 he was director of the Nordic Institute and then until 1945 he headed the Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic institutes. Since he was not a member of the NSDAP , the Philosophical Faculty rejected his election as dean in 1936. In 1940 he became a member of the NSDAP.

After the end of the Second World War , he became dean of the Philosophical Faculty in June 1945 and, until his appointment to the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1950, campaigned for the reopening of the Nordic Institute at the University of Greifswald. He has been invited to give guest lectures several times by the University of Copenhagen . Theater studies became a further field of work at the Humboldt University . In 1960 he became director of the Institute for Theater Studies.

In 1961 he was elected a corresponding member and in 1964 a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In 1957 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. He was a member of the CDU in the GDR .

literature

  • Wilhelm Bondzio : To the sources of science. In memoriam of Prof. Dr. Leopold Magon . In: New Time . February 15, 1968, p. 4 .
  • Wilhelm Bondzio: Co-designer of humanistic locations. Prof. Leopold Magon on his 100th birthday . In: New Time . April 3, 1987, p. 4 .
  • Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 208.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nordic Studies in Greifswald - a historical outline. (No longer available online.) Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald. Faculty of Arts, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; Retrieved May 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phil.uni-greifswald.de
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Leopold Magon. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 4, 2015 .
  3. ↑ High distinction for Prof. Magon . In: Berliner Zeitung . April 6, 1957, p. 2 .
personal data
SURNAME Magon, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in German, Scandinavian and theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1968
Place of death Berlin