Max Förster (English studies)
Max Theodor Wilhelm Förster (born March 8, 1869 in Danzig ; † November 10, 1954 in Wasserburg am Inn ) was a German Anglicist.
Career
Förster was a son of the Prussian general doctor Theodor Wilhelm Förster (1834–1915) and his wife Cäsarine, née. Schultze (1838-1924).
After attending the Paulinum grammar school in Münster (1879–1888), he studied comparative linguistics, German and English in Münster , Bonn and Berlin . In December 1892 he received his doctorate with a thesis supervised by xy On the sources of Älfrics Homiliae catholicae in Berlin as a Dr. phil. .
After compulsory military service, Förster became lecturer in English at the University of Bonn in October 1894, where he completed his habilitation in December 1896. On March 1, 1897, he was appointed professor there.
On November 1, 1898, Förster accepted a call to Würzburg as an associate professor for English philology . There he was appointed full professor in December 1902. In October 1909 he moved to the Friedrichs University in Halle as the successor to Albrecht Wagner . From 1910 he taught at the University of Leipzig and from 1925 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
In 1934 Förster was compulsorily retired. In the same year he accepted a visiting professorship at Yale University in the United States.
After his emigration, Förster was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police forces: in the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin - which mistakenly suspected him to be in Great Britain - put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who would be killed in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Islands by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupation troops following special commandos of the SS with special priority.
After the end of the Second World War, Förster took over the representation of the English language professorship in Munich in 1945/46.
Förster's scientific work focused on the Celtic loanwords . There is also extensive literature on English literary history.
He was a member of the Bavarian , Saxon and Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and, since 1934, a corresponding member of the British Academy .
Honors
- 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fonts
- About the sources of Älfrics Homiliae catholicae , 1892. (Dissertation)
- On the survival of ancient collective unars in English and in other vernacular languages , Anglia 67/68 (1944), pp. 1–171
literature
- Wolfgang Clemen: Förster, Theodor Wilhelm Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 279 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Rainer Albert Müller : Forester, Max Theodor Wilhelm. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 210 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Wenig: Directory of professors and lecturers at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818–1968. - Bonn: Bouvier, 1968
Web links
- Overview of Max Förster's (English) courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1910 to summer semester 1914)
- The estate is in the Bavarian State Library
- Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933-1945 Utz Maas
- Entry on Max Förster in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Förster on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 28, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forester, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Förster, Max Theodor Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Anglist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1954 |
| Place of death | Wasserburg am Inn |