Max Deutschbein

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Max Leo Ammon Deutschbein (born May 7, 1876 in Zwickau , † April 15, 1949 in Marburg ) was a German English graduate and university professor .

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Deutschbein's mother was English, his father Karl had written English school grammars. After graduating from high school, Deutschbein studied English and linguistics in Berlin and Leipzig . In 1898 he joined the Plessavia fraternity in Leipzig. In 1900 he received his doctorate in Leipzig with the thesis Dialectical in the Anglo-Saxon translation of Beda's church history .

In 1902 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig on the development of the English alliteration verse , became a private lecturer and in 1906 he received an extraordinary professorship . In 1910 he was appointed full professor of English at the University of Halle . In 1919 he moved to the University of Marburg , where he taught until his retirement in 1946. In 1939/40 he headed the Marburg Institute for Frontier and Foreign Studies .

He was known as a connoisseur of Old and Middle English sagas and dealt with Beowulf and the Middle English Ormulum . His subjects were mainly grammar , syntax and style . His most important innovation lay in linguistics and consisted in the application of the linguistic psychological method to the New English syntax. His book System der neueglischen Syntax was published in 1917 and quickly achieved four editions. He wrote a school grammar that was published several times and dedicated himself to the work of Shakespeare . From 1943 he was Vice President of the German Shakespeare Society and editor of the Shakespeare Yearbook.

Deutschbein first belonged to the German Democratic Party (DDP) or the German State Party . He resigned as dean of the Philosophical Faculty in Marburg in April 1933 , but remained unmolested. In November 1933, Deutschbein signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler . He belonged to the Nazi teachers' association and was also a member of the NSDAP from 1937 .

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on the legendary history of England. Schulze, Cöthen 1906.
  • Grammar of the English language (for secondary schools) on a scientific basis. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1924; 18th edition: Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1966.
  • (Co-author) Handbook of English Studies. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1928/29; 3rd edition 1955.

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Individual evidence

  1. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5778, p. 388 ( digitized version ).