Nicholas Fox

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Nikolaus Fox (born January 31, 1899 in Portz , † May 14, 1946 in Innsbruck ) was a German teacher, folklorist and poet from Saarland.

Life

Nikolaus Fox was born in Portz near Saarburg, but his family moved to Roden in 1902 , where Fox attended elementary school from 1905 to 1909. After attending the humanistic boys' grammar school in Saarlouis in 1909–1917 and graduating from high school, he studied German and history at the universities of Bonn and Cologne . Fox completed his studies with a PhD. phil. in Cologne. In 1928 the exams for the second state examination took place. Between 1928 and 1939 Fox was a teacher in Dillingen / Saar and also worked as a journalist for the "Dillinger Anzeiger".

Fox became a member of the NSDAP and on August 3, 1937, was appointed NS district culture warden of the Saarlouis district.

From 1939 to 1944, Fox was the headmaster of the girls' high school (today Robert Schuman High School (Saarlouis) ) in Saarlautern (Saarlouis). With the evacuation of Saarlouis at the beginning of the Second World War , Fox was seconded to the State Wilhelm School in Kassel from September 1939 to July 1940 .

Fox wrote numerous poems and pieces (especially Schwänke) in Moselle Franconian dialect as well as studies on Saarland folklore.

At the end of World War II, Fox was a war participant in Norway from 1944 to 1945 . He became a prisoner of war , where he died on May 14, 1946 in Innsbruck.

In 1979 the Saarbrücker Zeitung initiated a new edition of Fox's fundamental work, the “Saarland Folklore”.

Works (selection)

  • Saarland folklore, Bonn 1927.
  • De Kurwel, 2nd, improved edition, Saarlouis 1927.
  • The dead man, Saarlouis 1933.
  • De Brotkorwel, Saarlouis 1933.
  • From the life of Nikolaus Driesch, Saarlouis 1933.
  • Saarlouis and France, A discussion of the alleged historical claims of France on Saarlouis, in collaboration with Carl Roderich Richter and Franz Steinbach, Saarbrücken 1934.
  • The dialect of the city of Saarlouis, a reply to the "Open letter to Mr. Nikolaus Fox, doctor and teacher, Dillingen (Saar)" by Pierre-Emile Kiffer, Dillingen 1934.
  • Johann Peter Jager and his "Burlesque Description of Saarlouis", Dillingen 1935.
  • The five-penny piece, Saarlautern 1937.
  • From our old city, Saarlautern 1937.
  • 's Bachkerbl, Saarlautern 1938.
  • Folk tales, recorded in the landscapes of Westmark, Saarlauten 1941.
  • Fairy tales and animal stories, recorded in the landscapes of Westmark, Saarlautern 1942.
  • Saarländische Volkskunde, Saarbrücken 1979, unchanged reprint of the edition from 1927, with a foreword by Mathias Zender.
  • Der Weinesel, Von owls, rascals and clever women, ed. by Guido König and Stefan Schwall, With a short biography by Stefan Schwall and a work essay by Guido König, Blieskastel 1995.

literature

  • Wolfgang Freund: People, Reich and Western Frontier, German Studies and Politics in the Palatinate, Saarland and annexed Lorraine 1925-1945 (publication by the Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research, Volume 39), Saarbrücken 2006, pp. 399-410.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 years of Robert-Schuman Gymnasium Saarlouis 1901-2001, ed. from Robert-Schuman-Gymnasium, Saarbrücken 2001, p. 44f.
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from December 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Fox, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and folklorist and poet from the Saarland
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Portz
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1946
Place of death innsbruck