Ludwig Muhlhausen

Ludwig Konrad Mühlhausen (born December 16, 1888 in Kassel ; † April 15, 1956 in Ulm ) was a German Celtologist and professor at the University of Berlin and the University of Hamburg , where he was the first lecturer in Celtology (on the second chair in Germany besides Berlin at all).

Mühlhausen attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Kassel and from 1908 studied German, comparative linguistics , Baltic , Slavic , Sanskrit and Celtology at the universities of Zurich and Leipzig . He received his doctorate magna cum laude from the University of Leipzig in 1914 under Ernst Windisch . His dissertation dealt with the Latin, Romance and Germanic loanwords in Cymric , especially in the " Codex Venedotianus " of the Cymric laws. From 1915 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War . After the war, like shortly before the war, he was a trainee at the Leipzig University Library and from 1919 was an assistant at the Commerzbibliothek of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce , where he became a librarian in 1922. From 1922 he had a teaching position for Celtology at the University of Hamburg, where he became honorary professor in 1928. When the director of the Commerzbibliothek, Eduard Rosenbaum, was forced to emigrate in 1933, Mühlhausen became director in 1934. Mühlhausen had been active in right-wing parties since 1919, first in the German National People's Party , of which he was a member from 1919 to 1927, then in the NSDAP , of which he became a member in 1932. In 1933 he joined the SA . After the celtologist Julius Pokorny lost his chair in Berlin in 1935 for racist reasons (he fled to Switzerland in 1943), Mühlhausen was his successor in 1937. In 1936 he was one of the founders of the German Society for Celtic Studies . From the summer of 1942 he was head of the Celtic Folk Research Department at the SS-Ahnenerbe and from 1943 a member of the SS . From May 1945 to March 1948 he was prisoner of war or interned. After that his health was badly damaged and could only work scientifically to a limited extent. He suffered a stroke that paralyzed him on one side and died of a heart attack in 1956 . The University Library of Tübingen bought his special library . There you can also find his scientific papers (signature: Mn 4), mainly dictionary files, notebooks and Celtological records.

An edition of the Mabinogion and studies on the Parzifal fabric of the Arthurian legend come from him . According to Mühlhausen, the Welsh versions ( Peredur fab Efrawg ) of Parzifal are not the source of the Romance versions ( Chrétien de Troyes , Li Contes del Graal ), but conversely these influenced the Welsh versions .

The focus of his interest were the modern Celtic languages ​​( Cymrian , Irish and especially Breton with field research in Brittany), with political goals being pursued.

He had few students. Hans Hartmann completed his habilitation with him in 1941. However, he did not see himself as a student of Mühlhausen.

In September 1918 he married Elsa Abigt, with whom he had two daughters. His brother Rudolf Mühlhausen (* 1878) was a theologian.

Fonts

• The Latin, Romance, Germanic loanwords of Cymric, especially in the “Codex Venedotianus” of the Cymric laws. Karras, Halle (Saale) 1914, OCLC 890984982 (special print from: Festschrift Ernst Windisch for his 70th birthday on September 4, 1914, presented by friends and students. O. Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1914, OCLC 180643853 , pp. 249–348) ( restricted Preview in Google Book Search).
• The four branches of the Mabinogi (Pedeir ceinc y Mabigoni). With readings and glossary. Niemeyer, Halle 1925; 2nd edition: Ed. By Stefan Zimmer, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988 (with a biography in the appendix).
• Investigations into the mutual relationship between Chrestien's Conte del Graal and the Cymrian prose novel by Peredur. In: Journal for Romance Philology . Volume 44, 1924, pp. 465-543 ( gallica.bnf.fr ; scan of the unchanged reprint: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1970).
• Diarmuid with the red beard - Irish magical tales. Röth, Eisenach / Kassel 1955, DNB 575567074 ; 2nd Edition. Röth, Kassel 1976, ISBN 3-87680-255-5 .
• The Cornish story of the three good pieces of advice (= publication series of the "German Society for Celtic Studies" eV, issue 2). German Society for Celtic Studies, Berlin 1938, DNB 580774716 .
• Ten Irish Folk Tales from South Donegal. With translation and notes (= series of the "German Society for Celtic Studies" eV, issue 3). M. Niemeyer, Halle 1939, DNB 580774724 .

literature

• Joachim Lerchenmüller: "Celtic explosives". A study of the history of science on German Celtology from 1900 to 1945. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-484-40142-7 ; urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201605272041 (Original title: > Keltischer Sprengstoff < ).
• Christopher Sterzenbach: "I cannot regret that this war is also affecting scientific work ...": Prof. Dr. Ludwig Muhlhausen. In: Wolfgang Proske (Hrsg.): Nazi victims from the Ulm / Neu-Ulm region (= perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Volume 2; part of: Anne Frank Shoah Library ). Klemm & Ölschläger, Münster / Ulm 2013, ISBN 978-3-86281-062-8 , pp. 130-140.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Published in: Festschrift Ernst Windisch for his 70th birthday on September 4, 1914, presented by friends and students. O. Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1914, OCLC 180643853 , pp. 250-348 (see publications ).
2. ^ Estates M. Federal Archives, Central Database Estates . Retrieved September 11, 2019.
3. ↑ Hildegard LC Tristram: Introduction. 150 years of German hibernian studies. In: Hildegard LC Tristram (ed.): Germans, Celts and Iren. 150 years of German Celtology. Dedicated to Gearóid Mac Ecoin on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Helmut Buske, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-87118-971-5 , pp. 11-53, here: pp. 30 f. ( Scan in google book search).