Max Koch (literary historian)
Max Koch (born December 22, 1855 in Munich ; died December 19, 1931 in Breslau ) was a German specialist in German studies and a university professor.
Life
Max Koch studied literary history in Munich, among others with Michael Bernays and Konrad Hofmann . In 1878 he was awarded a dissertation on “Helferich Peter Sturz. Besides a treatise on the Schleswig Literaturbriefe with use of handwritten sources " doctorate . Stays at the universities of Berlin, London and Paris followed. In 1879 Koch completed his habilitation in Marburg, where he was associate professor from 1885. From 1890 he held the newly established chair for modern literary history at the University of Breslau .
In his research, Koch stood in the positivist tradition of the 19th century. He devoted himself above all to the biographical background, historical and national contexts of literature. Koch made a particular contribution to promoting comparative literary history, which is still young in Germany. His interest was in the context of the history of material and motifs in European literatures. He was editor of the "Journal for Comparative Literature History" (1887-1910) and "Studies on Comparative Literature History" (1901-09).
After the German defeat in 1918, which hit the patriot Max Koch hard, he turned away from the cosmopolitan basis of comparative literature and towards a nationalistic and ethnic attitude, which was accompanied by a strong admiration for Richard Wagner and which increasingly shaped his publications.
Works
- Gottsched and the Reform of German Literature in the Eighteenth Century. Richter, Hamburg 1887.
- History of German Literature. Göschen, Leipzig 1893.
- History of German literature from the oldest times to the present. Volume 2. Edited by Friedrich Vogt and Max Koch. 1897.
- (Ed. :) August von Platen. All works in twelve volumes. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1910.
- Dante's importance for Germany. Kirchheim, Mainz 1921.
- Richard Wagner's historical national broadcast. H. Beyer & Sons, Langensalza 1927.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Schulz: Koch, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 272 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Koch, Max. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 14: Kest – Kulk. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-22694-2 , pp. 130-138.
- Koch, Max , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 199
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Koch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Max Koch's estate in the Bavarian State Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koch, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1931 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |