Maximilian Braun (Slavist)

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Maximilian Braun (born February 6, 1903 in St. Petersburg , † July 17, 1984 in Göttingen ) was a German Slavist, translator and author.

Life

Maximilian Braun was born in St. Petersburg. After the October Revolution , his family left the city and moved to Dorpat in Estonia , where he graduated from high school in 1921. He began studying at the art academy there, but then went to Leipzig to study art history and psychology. In 1926 he changed his subjects and began studying Baltic and Slavic philology and the history of Eastern Europe. In 1930 he did his doctorate under Reinhold Trautmann and completed his habilitation in 1934 with the work “The beginnings of Europeanization in the art literature of the Muslim Slavs in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. From 1932 to 1936 he was an assistant, lecturer and lecturer at theUniversity of Leipzig . In 1936 he switched to the seminar for comparative linguistics at the University of Göttingen , where he also taught during the Third Reich. In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , where he headed the Russian department of the interpreting company. In 1942 he was appointed full professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Poznan , but never took the position.

When the Göttingen University resumed operations in the winter semester 1945/1946, he began teaching there again. In 1948 the university set up a chair for Slavic studies, which he held from 1949 until his retirement in 1968.

In 1955 he was an interpreter in the delegation that accompanied Konrad Adenauer to Moscow when the latter was negotiating the release of the German prisoners of war . He was the first German representative in the Commission for the History of Slavic Studies at the International Slavist Committee founded in Moscow in 1958.

Maximilian Braun died on July 17, 1984 and was buried in Göttingen.

Appreciations

"The Slavist Maximilian Braun founded in me the never-revised conviction that, among all the contributions to world literature of the 19th century, I could only do without the Russian ones at the very last."

- Richard von Weizsäcker

Fonts (selection)

  • Kosovo, the battle on the Amsel field in historical and epic tradition. Leipzig: Markert & Petters 1937. (Slavic-Baltic sources and research. 8.)
  • The rise of Russia from a Viking state to a major European power (1000-1700). Leipzig: Hiersemann 1940.
  • The Slavs in the Balkans until liberation from Turkish rule. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang 1941.
  • Basics of the Slavic languages. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht [1947].
  • Russian poetry in the 19th century. 2. verb. Edition Heidelberg: Winter 1952.
  • The struggle for reality in Russian literature. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht [1958]. (Small Vandenhoeck series. 57.)
  • NW Gogol. A literary biography . Munich: Trofenik 1973. (Slavic biographies. 1.)
  • Dostoyevsky. The complete work as diversity u. Unity . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1976.
  • Tolstoy. A literary biography . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1978.
Dictionaries
  • German-Russian phraseological dictionary. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht [1958].
  • Langenscheidt's pocket dictionary of Russian and German . Revised by Maximilian Braun. Berlin: Langenscheidt 1975.
Translations
  • Evgeny Onegin . Russian - German parallel edition in the prose translation by Maximilian Braun. Edited by Vasilij Blok u. Walter Kroll. Comments u. Selected bibliography. 2nd Edition. Goettingen 1996.
  • Description of the life of the despot Stefan Lazarević by Constantine the Philosopher . In the excerpt, ed. u. trans. by Maximilian Braun. Wiesbaden, Mouton 1956.
Editing
  • The world of the Slaves . Quarterly journal for Slavic studies. Edited by Maximilian Braun u. a. Volume 1 (1956)
  • Opera Slavica. Edited by Maximilian Braun a. Alois Schmaus . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1961–1963. [Series of publications]

literature

  • Jürgen Dinkel: Maximilian Braun as a southern Slavist . An academic biography (1926–1961). 2009. (Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe. 1.) ISBN 978-3-86688-061-0
  • Hermann Fegert: Maximilian Braun on his 100th birthday . In: Bulletin of German Slavic Studies. No. 9 2003. p. 7 [1]
  • Slavic spectrum. Festschrift for Maximilian Braun on his 80th birthday . Edited by Reinhard Lauer u. Brigitte Schultze. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1983. (Opera Slavica. 4.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Southeast Research Vol. 69/70. 2010/2011. Pp. 690-691.
  2. ↑ Southeast Research Vol. 69/70. 2010/2011. Pp. 690-691.
  3. ↑ Richard von Weizsäcker: Four times. Memories. Munich: Pantheon 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist, translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1984
Place of death Goettingen