Maria Bindschedler

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Maria Béatrice Bindschedler (born October 23, 1920 in Zurich ; † August 17, 2006 in Bern ), entitled to live in Zurich, was a Swiss medievalist . She was a full professor in Geneva and Bern and Bern's first dean.

Life and work

Maria Bindschedler was the daughter of Mary Bindschedler-Laufer and the lawyer and banker Rudolf G. Bindschedler. She learned and taught in Switzerland (Zurich, Basel, Geneva, Lausanne), in Besançon-France, Freiburg i. Br. Germany, Berkeley-USA and Tampere-Finland. She received her doctorate in Basel in 1945 and qualified as a professor in 1952.

In 1957 she became an associate professor for older German literary history. A year later she was called to Geneva as Ordinaria. From 1965 to 1976 Bindschedler was Ordinaria for German Philology at the University of Bern . Here she was one of the very first full professors ever.

In 1967 she became Bern's first dean and thus the second in Switzerland after the Friborg educator Laure Dupraz (1949). Bindschedler worked on a broad spectrum that went far beyond the Middle Ages. Her main research interests were the courtly novel and medieval mysticism , but also the works of Friedrich Nietzsche . She had to give up writing a habilitation thesis on him because of the death of her mentor Friedrich Ranke .

Maria Bindschedler sat on the board of important philosophical and Germanic societies. She played the piano and wrote poetry under the pseudonym Béatrice May.

Honor and foundation

The Maria Bindschedler guest lectures have been held in the Bernese Medieval Center (BMZ) since 2008. In her memory and on the basis of a foundation established by her, basic questions of medieval studies are to be dealt with.

Works

  • The Latin commentary on "Granum sinapis", Basel, 1949.
  • From the mystical life. Meister Eckhart - a selection from his German sermons. Basel, 1951.
  • Master Eckhart's doctrine of justice. [Germany], 1953.
  • Nietzsche and the poetic lie. Basel, 1954.
  • The Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg. Stuttgart, 1954.
  • The concept of education in the Middle Ages. Basel, 1954.
  • Gottfried von Strassburg and courtly ethics. Hall, 1955.
  • Nietzsche's letters to Meta von Salis. For the author's 100th birthday on March 1, 1955. In: Neue Schweizer Rundschau, NF Vol. 22 (1955) 12, pp. 707–721. ( Digitized version )
  • The seal about King Arthur and his knights. [Germany], 1957.
  • Guot and goodbye to Hartmann von Aue. Stuttgart, 1963.
  • Representations of animals in German poetry in the Middle Ages. Zurich, 1967.

literature

  • André Schnyder (Ed.), Middle Ages and Modernity. Collected writings on literature. To celebrate the 65th birthday of Maria Bindschedler , Bern; Stuttgart: P. Haupt 1985
  • Georges Bindschedler, Small festival offering for Maria Bindschedler on her 80th birthday , Bern: Benteli 2000
  • Franziska Rogger , children, war and career. Self-portraits from the mid-20th century , Bern: Stämpfli 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Bindschedler, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bindschedler, Maria Béatrice (full name); May, Beatrice (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION important medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 2006
Place of death Bern