Nikolaus Britz

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Nikolaus Britz (born November 7, 1919 in Kikinda , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; † November 10, 1982 in Vienna , Austria ) was an Austrian university professor .

Life

Britz attended the private German teacher training institute in Neuwerbaß , where he received his teaching diploma. In the course of the expulsion of the Yugoslav Germans, he emigrated from Yugoslavia and settled in Austria. He studied history and literature at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate there. Later Britz was appointed professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Baden near Vienna.

Britz was the initiator, co-founder and general secretary of the International Lenau Society , the aim of which is to win over German scholars from countries in the West and the East for scientific collaboration in the field of literary research. Attention was drawn to the annual conferences and symposia held by Britz, which took place alternately in Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary and Romania.

Britz published a few dozen biographical and bibliographical works on authors of German and non-German ethnicity, children's and school books, and educational writings. In his research, Britz dealt with works by Nikolaus Lenau , Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn , Adalbert Stifter , Hans Kaltneker , Theodor Kramer and Sándor Petőfi, among others . He founded the magazine Austrian Meeting and was editor of the magazine Lenau-Forum .

He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • The poet Fritz Felzmann . Portrait and reading samples (= poet of the Korneuburg district , Volume 1), Vienna and Heidelberg: Bohmann, 1965
  • From Nikolaus Lenau's family history past: an old Austrian cultural image , Mattersburg, Burgenland: Wograndl, 1982
  • Lenau in Baden: cultural images from the area of ​​the former Weilburg and its residents , reading gift for the city's five-hundredth anniversary, Braumüller, Vienna, 1980, ISBN 3-7003-0246-0
  • The Christmas stories of Mr. Josef P. Braumüller, Vienna, 1979, ISBN 3-7003-0232-0
  • From the history of the Korneuburg district area in the early and high Middle Ages , Braumüller, Vienna, 1977, ISBN 3-7003-0154-5
  • Poetry in life and in school: 2 lectures , Braumüller, Vienna, 1977, ISBN 3-7003-0152-9
  • Poetry and Life in Theory and School Practice , published by the Research and Culture Center of Austrians from the Danube, Sudeten and Carpathian Region, Vienna. Krems (Danube): Faber, 1974

literature

  • Hans Diplich : Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter , with bio-bibliography, 1/1978
  • Karl Gladt: Festschrift for Professor Doktor Nikolaus Britz on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday on November 7, 1979. Published on behalf of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Lenau Society. Braumüller, Vienna, 1979, ISBN 3-7003-0231-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Britz, Nikolaus . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Britz, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Kikinda , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1982
Place of death Vienna , Austria