Paul Alpers

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Paul Heinrich Rudolf Alpers (born November 25, 1887 in Hanover , † June 4, 1968 in Celle ) was a German folklorist , educator and author.

Life

Paul Alpers was born in Hanover as the son of a pastor. After attending the Hanoverian Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium , where he passed his Abitur in 1806, Alpers studied German, ancient languages ​​and religious studies in Göttingen and Bonn from Easter 1906 to July 1911.

As a student of Edward Schröder he was with a dissertation investigations on the old Low German folk song , he received his doctorate in 1911 .

From Michaelis 1911 onwards he completed his seminar year at the Johanneum in Lüneburg and in the following year he did his military service in Hanover. From Michaelis 1913 to 1914 he was a trial candidate at the Leibniz School in Hanover and then worked as a teaching assistant at the Humboldt School in Linden until the outbreak of war . In July 1914 he was elected senior teacher at the Realgymnasium in Berlin-Lankwitz.

On the day of the mobilization for World War I, Alpers moved into the field, where he was taken prisoner in Belgium for 3 ½ years. Eventually he was extradited to Switzerland, from where he returned to Germany in December 1918.

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic, Alpers worked in Berlin for two months in the Prussian War Ministry before he was finally able to take up his teaching post at the Realgymnasium Berlin-Lankwitz, where he worked as a teacher for five years.

At Michaelmas 1924 Alpers was appointed to the state grammar school in Celle .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations into the old Low German folk song. Soltau, Norden 1911 (also PhD thesis, University of Göttingen)
  • The old Low German songs , Hamburg 1924
  • Middle Latin reading book . Gotha, Perthes 1924
  • The German folk song , Nuremberg, Koch 1925
  • The Wienhausen songbook . Published on behalf of Gauleiter Oberpräsident Lauterbacher from the Reichspropagandaamt Südhannover-Braunschweig, Reichspropagandaamt Südhannover-Braunschweig, Hanover [1944]
  • The Wienhausen songbook . In: Low German Yearbook . Neumünster, Vol. 69/70, 1943–1947, pp. 1–41 (text-critical edition).
  • with Friedrich Barenscheer: Celler Flurnamenbuch. The field names of the city and the district of Celle. Edited by the Institute for Regional Planning and for Lower Saxony Regional Studies, Göttingen-Hanover, by Kurt Brüning, Celle 1952 (reprint 1974)

literature

  • Program Celle Gymnasium 1925
  • Commemorative letter for senior student council i. R. Dr. phil. Paul Alpers, Celle. Born November 25, 1887, died June 4, 1968. Lax, Hildesheim 1968.
  • Richard Mehlem: Dr. Paul Alpers 80 years . In: Heimatland 1967, no. 6, pp. 274–278.
  • Kurt Person: In memory of our honorary member Paul Alpers, died on June 4, 1968. In: Heimatland 1968, no. 4, pp. 174–176.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Franz Kössler : Alpers, Paul Heinrich Rudolf , in ders: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century . Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825 - 1918 with lists of publications , Bd .: Abbehusen - Axt ; Full text as electronic preprint (PDF document) from Justus Liebig University Gießen , Gießen 2007
  2. ↑ a b Hessische Blätter für Volkskunde , Volumes 57–59, BG Teubner, 1966, p. 233; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ o. V .: Board as a PDF document on the heimatbund-niedersachsen.de page [ undated ], last accessed on September 7, 2019
  4. ↑ According to Jochen Barth, the information comes from RWLE Möller , compare streets in Celle ... on the page barth-celle.de [ undated ], last accessed on September 7, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Alpers, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alpers, Paul Heinrich Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist, educator and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1968
Place of death Celle