Peter Assion (folklorist)

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Peter Assion (born August 5, 1941 in Walldürn ; † April 1, 1994 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German folklorist and Germanist .

Life and education

Due to the circumstances of the war, Peter Assion was born in the homeland of his mother Johanna Assion, née Bausback, as the son of Adolf Assion, a fine bag maker who works in Frankfurt / Offenbach . Peter was raised a Catholic by his mother, a née Bausback, in the pilgrimage town of Walldürn. Peter Assion had never seen his father, who died in Russia in the winter of 1941/42. During his high school years he received the Scheffel Prize for essays and also showed a talent as a draftsman. From 1961 to 1969 he studied German, Romance studies and political science in Heidelberg. During this time he also completed a year at the Free University of Berlin as a folklore student. Assion received his doctorate in 1969 in Heidelberg on the topic The Miracles of St. Catherine , received from his doctoral supervisor, the old Germanist and specialist prose researcher Gerhard Eis . In 1975, Assion completed his habilitation in German Philology and Folklore at the University of Heidelberg.

Act

From 1969 to 1980 Assion was head of the Baden regional office for folklore in Freiburg and private lecturer for folklore in Heidelberg. In 1980 he held the chair for European ethnology and cultural research at the Philipps University in Marburg and in 1991 the chair for folklore at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

In addition to the folklore topics of working-class culture and emigration, traditional narrative research was also important to him. He remained connected throughout his life to ancient German studies and specialist prose research, which was also the subject of his dissertation on the miracle stories of Catherine of Alexandria .

Peter Assion lived in Walldürn (Ringstrasse 40). He died in Freiburg im Breisgau and was buried in the family grave of his maternal Bausback family in the Walldürn cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

  • The miracles of St. Catherine of Alexandria, studies and texts on the origin and aftermath of medieval miracle literature. University thesis Heidelberg (dissertation) 1969.
  • as publisher: Rural cultural forms in the German southwest. 1971.
  • Jakob von Landshut. On the history of Jewish doctors in Germany. In: Sudhoff's archive. Volume 53, 1969, pp. 270-291; also in: Medicine in the Medieval Occident. Edited by Gerhard Baader and Gundolf Keil . Darmstadt 1982 (= ways of research. Volume 363), pp. 386-410.
  • Old German specialist literature. Berlin 1973 (= Basics of German Studies. Volume 13).
  • as ed. with Gundolf Keil: Fachprosaforschung. Eight lectures on medieval art literature. Berlin 1974.
  • Specialized prose research and folklore. In: Gundolf Keil, Peter Assion (Ed.): Specialized prose research. Eight lectures on medieval art literature. Berlin 1974, pp. 140-166.
  • as publisher. Research and reports on folklore in Baden-Württemberg. 1973 and 1977.
  • 650 years of pilgrimage in Walldürn. 1980.
  • as ed. with Gundolf Keil, Willem Frans Daems and Heinz-Ulrich Roehl: Fachprosastudien. Contributions to the history of science and ideas. Festschrift Gerhard Eis . E. Schmidt, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-503-01269-9 .
  • with Rolf Wilhelm Brednich : Building and Living in the German Southwest. 1984.
  • 'The Sea Book'. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Vol. 8 (1992), Col. 1013-1017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Assion, Peter. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
  2. ↑ Christa Hagenmeyer: Obituary for Peter Assion. August 5, 1941 - April 1, 1994. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 525-530.
  3. ↑ Assion, Peter. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Christa Hagenmeyer: Obituary for Peter Assion. August 5, 1941 - April 1, 1994. 1995, p. 525.
personal data
SURNAME Assion, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Walldürn
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1994
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau