Otto Schumann (pedagogue)

Otto Schumann (born August 19, 1888 in Trarbach , † October 23, 1950 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Middle Latin philologist , grammar school teacher and university teacher .

life and work

Schumann attended high school in Marburg . After graduating from high school in 1906, he studied in Marburg, Berlin and Munich before returning to the University of Marburg , where he received his doctorate under Albert Brackmann in 1910 and passed the state examination in German, history, Latin and gymnastics in 1911 . After a year of seminars and probation in Bonn, he was a senior teacher in Essen from 1913 to 1918 .

In 1918, he came as a teacher of the ancient languages Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main , where he remained until 1946th In the years 1934/35, 1939–1942 and 1945/46 he was the managing director of the school.

In parallel to his work at grammar school, he completed his habilitation in 1929 at the University of Frankfurt , where he then became a private lecturer and, from 1936, an adjunct professor for historical auxiliary sciences and Middle Latin philology.In 1946 he became a personal associate professor and was able to give up school service. Schumann and Alfons Hilka published the Carmina Burana in two volumes based on the Latin manuscripts and studied Waltharius . Since 1943 he was a member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Publications (selection)

• The papal legates in Germany at the time of Henry IV and Henry V (1056–1125). Marburg 1912 (= dissertation).
• Carmina Burana. Using the preparatory work by Wilhelm Meyers critical ed. by Alfons Hilka and Otto Schumann. C. Winter, Heidelberg
  • Vol. 1, 1: The moral-satirical poems , 1930. 2nd edition 1978
  • Vol. 1, 2: Die Liebeslieder , 1941, 2nd edition 1971
  • Vol. 1, 3: The drinking and play songs. The spiritual dramas. Supplements , ed. by Otto Schumann and Bernhard Bischoff 1970
  • Vol. 2, 1: Commentary: Introduction (The manuscript of Carmina Burana). The moral-satirical poems , 1930, 2nd edition 1961

literature

• Rudolf Bonnet: The Lessing High School in Frankfurt am Main. Teacher and pupil 1897–1947. Waldemar Kramer publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1954.
• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 . P. 353
• Notker Hammerstein (Ed.): German Education? Correspondence between two schoolmen Otto Schumann - Martin Havenstein 1930-1944 , Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-45814629-6
• Professor Otto Schumann: the work of a humanist at the Lessing-Gymnasium and at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University 1918-1950 as reflected in the history of the school and town. A documentary on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death. 2nd edition, Lessing-Gymnasium, Frankfurt am Main 2004
• Frank-Rutger Hausmann : The subject Middle Latin Philology at German universities from 1930 to 1950. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7772-1005-6 , pp. 93-134. 320.

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Schumann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto Schumann's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
• The estate is in the Bavarian State Library