Otto Harnack

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Otto Harnack

Rudolf Gottfried Otto Harnack (born November 23, 1857 in Erlangen , † March 22, 1914 in the Neckar near Besigheim ) was a German literary scholar , Goethe researcher , playwright and poet as well as a university professor .

Life

Otto Harnack was a son of Theodosius Harnack and younger brother of the theologian Adolf von Harnack . His mother Marie Harnack, nee Ewers, died in Erlangen on the day he was born, and in 1864 his father married the deceased's cousin, Baroness Helene von Maydell , in Eisenach . In 1866 Otto Harnack moved with the family to Dorpat , Estonia (then the Livonia governorate of the Russian Empire ). Around 1871 he was probably together with his brother Adolf in Allasch (today Allaži, near Riga) on a manor that was inhabited by the family of his stepmother's sister.

After studying at the University of Tartu Harnack was in 1880 at the University of Goettingen to the Dr. phil. doctorate , after which it to 1883 in Birkenruh in Livonia was a teacher. In August 1898, he married 20 years younger, in Jena in Berlin Erich Kuithan trained painter Clara Reichau (1877-1962). The children from the marriage were the lawyer, economist and resistance fighter Arvid Harnack (1901-1942), the director Falk Harnack (1913-1991), as well as the two daughters Ingeborg Harnack (later Havemann-Harnack) and Angela (called Ansa , later active as a violin teacher).

Harnack became editor of the magazine Preußische Jahrbücher in 1890 . In 1891 he worked as a writer and correspondent for the Allgemeine Zeitung in Rome . He also worked there as secretary of the German Artists' Association . In 1896 he was appointed professor of history and literature at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Together with his brother Adolf, Otto Harnack was a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt from 1904. In 1905 he switched to the Technical University of Stuttgart as a professor . Despite his professional activity in Stuttgart, he was a city ​​councilor in Darmstadt from 1906 to 1914 .

Otto Harnack was missing from February 27, 1914 and died by suicide on March 22, 1914 at the age of 56 .

In the 1930s, his widow Clara Harnack lived with their daughter Angela again in Jena, where she often had problems with the Gestapo ; she died in Neckargemünd in 1962 .

Works

  • The Carolingian and Byzantine empires in their mutual political relations. In addition to an excursion on the official or private origins of the great Carolingian annals. R. Peppmüller, Göttingen 1880 ( limited preview in the Google book search USA ).
  • The Electoral College until the middle of the fourteenth century. Along with a critical impression of the oldest copy of the golden bull. A treatise that was awarded the first prize of the Beneke Foundation by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen. Ricker, Giessen 1883 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - USA ).
  • Goethe in the epoch of his completion (1805–1832). Attempt to present his way of thinking and world view. JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1887 ( archive.org ).
    • Second revised edition, JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1901 ( archive.org ).
  • On the post-history of the Italian trip. Goethe's correspondence with friends and fellow artists in Italy 1788–1790. (=  Writings of the Goethe Society. Volume 5). Verlag der Goethe-Gesellschaft, Weimar 1890 ( limited preview in Google book search - USA ).
  • Tolstoy in Germany. In: Prussian year books. 67, 1891, pp. 1–13 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - USA )
  • Livonia as a member of the German Empire from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. In: Prussian year books. 67, 1891, pp. 364–378 ( limited preview in Google Book Search USA ).
  • The classic aesthetic of the Germans. Appreciation of the art theoretical works of Schiller, Goethe and their friends. With the facsimile of an unprinted poem by Schiller. JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1892 ( limited preview in Google book search - USA ).
  • German art life in Rome in the Classical Age. A contribution to cultural history. Emil Felber, Weimar 1896 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Schiller. Ernst Hofmann & Co., Berlin 1898 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - USA ).
  • Essais and studies on the history of literature. Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig 1899 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Goethe's Selected Works. Edited in chronological order with annotations by Otto Harnack. Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig 1901 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - USA ).
  • The course of the action in Goethe's Faust. A. Bergsträßer, Darmstadt 1902 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • German Classicism in the Age of Goethe. A literary historical sketch. Emil Felber, Berlin-Schöneberg 1906 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - USA ).
  • Articles and lectures. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1911 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

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SURNAME Harnack, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harnack, Rudolf Gottfried Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1914
Place of death Neckar near Besigheim