Oskar Daehnhardt

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Alfred Oskar Dähnhardt (born November 21, 1870 in Kiel ; † April 25, 1915 in Ypres , Flanders ) was a German scholar and classical scholar .

Life

Dähnhardt was born in Kiel in 1870 as the son of the Leipzig judge Heinrich Dähnhardt . He attended the Nikolaischule in Leipzig. He became a first lieutenant in the Landwehr . Until 1894 he studied German and classical philology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , the University of Leipzig and the University of Göttingen . He then obtained his doctorate as Dr. phil.

Among other things, he made a name for himself by collecting and publishing fairy tales , sagas and folk stories. In view of his short lifetime, Dähnhardt left behind a considerable number of publications. On the website of the British publishing group Pearson Dähnhardt is listed as the only German and as one of only four named leading narrative researchers of the 19th century.

Dähnhardt was a teacher at the Thomasschule in Leipzig from 1896 to 1910 and rector of the Nikolaischule in Leipzig from 1910 to 1915 .

From Dähnhardt's text collections, the general public is probably best known for the joke poem Finster war's, the moon seemed bright . The first evidence for the poem, the author of which is unknown, can be found in Dähnhardt's book Volksthümliches from the Kingdom of Saxony (1898), in which he published texts collected at the Thomas School.

He was secretary in the Association of German Folklore Associations .

Dähnhardt fell in Flanders in 1915. Posthumously in 1929 Dähnhardtstrasse (today residential street ) in the Leipzig district of Wahren was named after the Germanist.

Fonts

Multi-volume works are only listed once.

  • Oskar Dähnhardt (1896): Greek dramas in German arrangements by Wolfhart Spangenberg and Isaac Fröreisen . Volume 1 and 2.
  • Oskar Dähnhardt (ed., 1898): Popular things from the Kingdom of Saxony . Collected at the Thomas School by Oskar Dähnhardt. Leipzig: Teubner, 1898.
  • Oskar Dähnhardt (ed., 1901): Sounds of home from German districts . Leipzig: Teubner, 1901.
  • Oskar Dähnhardt (1906): Contributions to comparative research into legends: I. Flood legends . Journal of the Society for Folklore , 16 (1906). 369-396.
  • Oskar Dähnhardt (1903): German fairy tale book . Leipzig, Teubner.
  • Oskar Dähnhardt (ed., 1907–12): Natural legends: A collection of natural legends, fairy tales, fables and legends . Leipzig, Berlin, BG Teubner. (Reissued 1983: ISBN 978-3-487-07280-7 ).
  • Oskar Dähnhardt (ed., 1925): Natural history folk tales .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Oskar Dähnhardt  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 2.
  2. ^ "Among the foremost folklorists of the 19th cent. were Oskar Dähnhardt in Germany, SO Addy in England, Paul Sébillot in France, and YM Sokolov in Russia. " infoplease.com: folktale , with reference to The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. 2007, Columbia University Press (English; accessed 5 February 2007)
  3. ↑ Gottlieb Tesmer, Walther Müller: Honor roll of the Thomas School in Leipzig. The teachers and high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1912–1932. Commissioned by the Thomanerbund, self-published, Leipzig 1934, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Leipzig-Lexikon Online: Register D (accessed February 5, 2007)
personal data
SURNAME Dähnhardt, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1915
Place of death Ypres , Flanders