Otmar Schissel from Fleschenberg
Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg (born August 8, 1884 in Gföhl , Lower Austria, † December 28, 1943 in Graz ) was an Austrian classical philologist , Germanist and Byzantine scholar .
Life
Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg, the son of a court adjunct, studied at the universities of Vienna and Graz from 1903 . His academic teachers included the philosopher Alexius Meinong , the Germanists Hugo Spitzer , Anton Emanuel Schönbach and Bernhard Seuffert and the classical philologists Alois Goldbacher and Heinrich Schenkl . In 1907 Schissel received his doctorate in Graz with the dissertation The adjective as an epithet in the love song of the 12th century (published 1908) in German studies . He achieved his habilitation in German language and literature in 1911 at the University of Innsbruck .
After converting his license to teach general literature (1918), Schissel went to the University of Graz as a private lecturer in 1919 . In 1921 his license to teach was changed again, this time to late antiquity and Byzantine philology. In 1923 he received a personal associate professor in his subject, in 1926 he was appointed as a regular associate professor. In Graz, Schissel gave lectures on wide areas of late antique, Christian and Byzantine literature. His research focused on letter literature, hagiography , military writers, Neoplatonism and rhetoric . For his services he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens in 1937 .
Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg died on December 28, 1943 as a result of a coronary infarction while walking. He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .
literature
- Franz Ferdinand Schwarz : Schissel von Fleschenberg Otmar. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 164 f. (Direct links on p. 164 , p. 165 ).
- Gerhard Kurzmann , Ottfried Hafner: Dead in Graz: Living Austrian History on the St. Leonhard Cemetery , Graz 1990, pp. 113–115.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
First chair: Albert Muchar (1827–1849) | Karlmann Tangl (1850–1863) | Karl Schenkl (1863–1875) | Otto Keller (1875–1881) | Alois Goldbacher (1882–1908) | Josef Mesk (1909–1914) | Richard Meister (1918–1920) | Karl Mras (1921–1933) | Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg (1926–1943) | Carl Koch (1943–1945) | Endre von Ivánka (1947–1961) | Karl Vretska (1961–1971) | Eugen Dönt (1971–1981) | Walter Pötscher (1982–1997) | Eveline Krummen (since 1999)
Second chair: Emanuel Hoffmann (1850–1856) | Max Theodor von Karajan (1857–1904) | Richard Cornelius Kukula (1905-1919) | Karl Prinz (1919–1939) | Hans Gerstinger (1940–1960) | Franz Stoessl (1961–1981) | Franz Ferdinand Schwarz (1982–1996) | Ursula Gärtner (since 2016)
Third chair: Wilhelm Kergel (1871–1891) | Heinrich Schenkl (1892–1917) | Josef Mesk (1917–1940)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schissel from Fleschenberg, Otmar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fleschenberg, Otmar Schissel from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian philologist and Byzantinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gföhl |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1943 |
| Place of death | Graz |