Max von Waldberg
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Max Freiherr von Waldberg (born January 1, 1858 in Jassy , Principality of Moldova , † November 6, 1938 in Heidelberg ) was a German linguist and literary scholar .
Life
Waldberg studied from 1877 at the University of Vienna , the Franz Joseph University in Chernivtsi and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1881 in Chernivtsi he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. He completed his habilitation in 1884. In 1888 he received an extraordinary post in Czernowitz, but then followed in 1889 the call of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg as an associate professor. From 1908 he was an honorary professor there .
Together with the English scholar Josef Schick , he published the literary historical research from 1897 to 1928 .
Joseph Goebbels , who later became Minister of Propaganda, was one of his students . Due to his Jewish ancestors, von Waldberg was retired on April 12, 1933 in accordance with the law to restore the civil service . In 1935 his license to teach was revoked.
Max Freiherr von Waldberg rests in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof in the (Dept. D)
Fonts
- Studies on Lessing's style in the Hamburg dramaturgy . Berlin 1882 (additional dissertation, University of Czernowitz, 1881).
- German Renaissance poetry . Berlin 1888.
- Goethe and the folk song . Berlin 1889.
- The sensitive novel in France. Part I: The beginnings to the beginning of the XVIII. Century . Strasbourg / Berlin 1906.
- Studies and sources on the history of the novel. Volume I: On the history of the development of the “beautiful soul” among the Spanish mystics . Berlin 1910.
literature
- Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 3: R-Z. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1977–1978.
- Olha flax: Max Freiherr von Waldberg (1858–1938). A contribution to the history of German studies. Mattes, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86809-109-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Max von Waldberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Max von Waldberg in the Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Literary historical research 1.1897 - 55.1928; accessed on August 3, 2020
- ↑ Carmon, Arye. The Impact of the Nazi Racial Decrees on the University of Heidelberg (PDF; 76 kB). Yad Vashem Studies XI (Jerusalem, 1976), pp. 131-141.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waldberg, Max von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waldberg, Max Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and professor in Heidelberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iassy |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1938 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |