Paul Kluckhohn

Paul Kluckhohn (born April 10, 1886 in Göttingen , † May 20, 1957 in Tübingen ) was a German German scholar and literary historian.

Life

Kluckhohn was a son of the late historian August von Kluckhohn . He received his doctorate in 1909 from the University of Göttingen with a historical thesis on ministerialism in south-east Germany from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries and completed his habilitation in 1913 at the University of Münster .

In 1925 he received an extraordinary professorship at the Technical University in Danzig , was appointed to the University of Vienna in 1927 and finally worked as a full professor at the University of Tübingen from 1930 .

Kluckhohn dealt primarily with the German Romanticism and the Goethe era , he was "national", but kept a certain distance from National Socialism .

Kluckhohn was one of the co-founders of the German quarterly journal for literary studies .

Grave in the Tübingen city cemetery

Fonts (selection)

• The ministeriality in southeast Germany from the tenth to the end of the thirteenth century (= sources and studies on the constitutional history of the German Empire in the Middle Ages and Modern Times. Vol. 4, Issue 1, ISSN  0863-0836 ). Böhlaus Nachf., Weimar 1910.
• The conception of love in 18th century literature and in German romanticism. Niemeyer, Halle / Saale 1922.
• German romanticism. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld et al. 1924.
• Personality and community. Studies on the state conception of the German Romanticism (= German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history. Book series. 5, ZDB -ID 200380-6 ). Niemeyer, Halle / Saale 1925.
• as editor: Weltanschauung der Early Romanticism (= German literature. Series 17: Romanticism. 5, ZDB -ID 1171305-7 ). Reclam, Leipzig 1932.
• as editor: The idea of ​​the people in the literature of the German movement. From Möser and Herder to Grimm (= Literary History Library. 13, ZDB -ID 971229-x ). Junker and Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1934.
• The ideas of German Romanticism (= Handbook of German Studies . 6, ZDB -ID 1002305-7 ). Niemeyer, Halle / Saale 1941.
• The idea of ​​man in Goethe's time (= Der Deutschenspiegel. Writings for knowledge and renewal. 13, ZDB -ID 966178-5 ). German publishing house, Stuttgart 1946.

literature

• Christa Hempel-Küter: German studies between 1925 and 1955. Studies on the world of science using the example of Hans Pyritz. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-05-003472-6 (also: Hamburg, University, habilitation paper, 1997).
• Hugo Kuhn:  Kluckhohn, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 132 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Gerd Simon on Kluckhohn and the NS system (PDF; 393 kB)
• Literature by and about Paul Kluckhohn in the catalog of the German National Library