Otto Heuer (literary historian)

Otto Heuer

Otto Heuer (born February 6, 1854 in Hanover , † January 24, 1931 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) was a German literary historian . Discovered by Hermann Grotefend , he became “one of the first Goethe researchers of all time”.

Life

Heuer studied philology and history at the University of Leipzig and renoncierte on April 27, 1873 the Corps Thuringia Leipzig . On August 1, 1873 recipiert , he proved to be a Subsenior and Consenior . On January 18, 1875, he was philisted . After completing his studies, he spent several years in Austria to “devote himself to teaching and education”. Then he turned to historical research in Berlin . In 1886 he came to Frankfurt am Main , where he worked in the editing of the Reichstag files published by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . On January 21, 1887 he was elected secretary of the academic department for history in the Free German Hochstift. In the same year his doctorate him the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin to Dr. phil. On April 1, 1888, he took over the position of administrative clerk and librarian in the Hochstift. As professor and director of the Goethe Museum in Frankfurt, which he founded in 1897, he headed the business of the Free German Hochstift until 1925 . He curated the first exhibitions on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . He expanded the collections in order to achieve a new building for the first Frankfurt Goethe Museum . In addition to Goethe, he also devoted himself to Sigismund (HRR) , Johann Heinrich Ramberg and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld .

In October 1925, District Administrator Alexander von Bernus , Justice Councilor Paul Neumann , Franz Adickes , Weimar's Lord Mayor Martin Donndorf , Alfred Biese , Frankfurt's city librarian Hermann Traut and others came to see them farewell . Heuer retired in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe.

Works

• Goethe and his hometown , special print from the commemorative publication for Goethe's 150th birthday celebration, offered by the Free German Hochstift, 1899.
• Johann Heinrich Ramberg as the illustrator of our classics . Frankfurt am Main 1909.
• Goethe's birthplace and its renovation by the Councilor in 1755 . Frankfurt am Main 1910.
• The pictures of the royal lieutenants in the Frankfurt Goethemuseum. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Frankfurt Goethemuseum . Frankfurt am Main 1922.
• Marianne von Willemer's festive greeting on Goethe's 75th birthday. A secular memory on August 28, 1924 . Frankfurt am Main 1924.
• The development of Goethe's Faust poem. New research . Recklinghausen 1932.

Honors

• Silver medal of the city of Frankfurt am Main by City Councilor Willy Meckbach (1925)
• Relief image in the Goethe Museum, made by Richard Scheibe
• Honorary member of the Goethe Society (1926)

literature

• Joachim Seng: Goethe enthusiasm and citizenship. The Free German Hochstift / Frankfurt Goethe Museum 1881–1960 . Göttingen 2009.

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Heuer  - Sources and full texts

• This year and Goethe (KOBV)
• IdRef

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Archives of the Corps Thuringia Leipzig
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 91/91.
3. ^ Reports of the Free German Hochstift 1888, p. 264 f.
4. ↑ Reports of the Free German Hochstift 1886/87, p. 53
5. ↑ Dissertation: Urban League efforts under King Sigmund I.
6. ↑ Catalog of the exhibition of autographs, silhouettes, portraits, printed works and illustrations on Goethe's suffering of the young Werther from the autograph collection of the Lord Chamberlain Hugo von Donop. July to October 1892.
7. ↑ Exhibition of manuscripts, printed works, pictures and sound works on the Faust saga and Faust poetry. August 28 to November 10, 1893.
8. ↑ Exhibition of autographs, pictures, silhouettes, printed works and memorabilia to illustrate Goethe's relationship to his hometown. July to November 1895.
9. ^ Pictorial works [from the Frankfurt Goethemuseum], 1908.
10. ↑ Working group of independent cultural institutes
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Frankfurter Nachrichten, No. 292, Morgenblatt on October 21, 1925.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Communication from the library of the Free German Hochstift

Remarks

1. ↑ Before this year only Alexander von Gleichen-Rußwurm , Friedrich Schiller's great-grandson, was granted honorary membership in the Goethe Society .