Otto Maußer

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Otto Ernst Maußer , also Mausser, (born October 3, 1880 in Grafenau (Lower Bavaria) , † July 1, 1942 in Munich ) was a Bavarian German philologist and dialect researcher.

Life

Maußer, the son of a postman (Postexpeditor), studied philology, palaeography, economic history, music history and art history at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1906 under Hermann Paul (dissertation: rhyme studies on Wigamur ) and then worked as a private scholar and research assistant for various newspapers and in 1912 until 1919 scientific assistant at the dictionary commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In 1915 he completed his habilitation in Munich ( Die Apokope des Mittelhochdeutschen -e in Old Bavarian with special consideration of the dialect of Grafenau in the Bavarian Forest ). Then he was a private lecturer and from 1920 extraordinary professor for German philology in Munich. After several substitute professorships in Munich, Würzburg and Königsberg, he became associate professor for Germanic philology and Indo-European studies in Königsberg in 1938. There he also headed the archive for runic research. From 1942 he worked again in Munich.

He dealt with Bavarian dialects , Indo-European studies and folklore.

Maußer had been assigned to a department of Frisian Studies at the SS Ahnenerbe . Heinrich Himmler commissioned him in 1937 to assess Herman Wirth's work on the Ura Linda Chronicle (Wirth was largely isolated in his view that it was real), as he feared for the reputation of the ancestral inheritance. But Maußer could not find any evidence to support Wirth's thesis either. He was supposed to create a critical edition of the Ura Linda Chronicle (for which Himmler also supported his application for the professorship in Königsberg), but died before that.

In 1930 he published the register volume for Johann Andreas Schmeller's Die Mundarten Bayerns .

Fonts

  • Middle High German grammar on a comparative basis, 3 parts, 1932, 1933, reprint 1972

literature

  • Ulrich Zangenfeind: Maußer, Otto. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 511 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Heidrun Alzheimer: Folklore in Bavaria. A bibliographical lexicon of the forerunners, sponsors and former professional representatives. Würzburg 1991, pp. 173-175.
  • Carmen cabineta: dialect customers and Germanic religious history. On the activities of Otto Maußer and Otto Höfler . In: Folklore at the Munich University 1933 to 1945 (= Munich Contributions to Folklore 6). Munich 1986.
  • Entry in Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , De Gruyter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Vierhaus (ed.), German Biographical Lexicon. Michael Kater , Das Ahnenerbe der SS 1933-1945, Oldenbourg 2006, p. 59, gives 1940 and sometimes 1944 is given as the year of death.
  2. ↑ Michael Kater: Ahnenerbe, p. 52
  3. ↑ Gerd Simon: Chronology Ura-Linda-Chronik 2005. University of Tübingen
personal data
SURNAME Maußer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maußer, Otto Ernst (full name); Mausser, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Grafenau (Lower Bavaria)
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1942
Place of death Munich