Reinhold Bechstein

Reinhold Bechstein, Portrait of Margarete Loewe (1895)

Reinhold Ludwig Bernhard Matthäus Bechstein (born October 12, 1833 in Meiningen , † October 5, 1894 in Rostock ) was a German philologist and philologist .

Life

Reinhold Bechstein, son of the writer and director of the Meiningen ducal library Ludwig Bechstein , was born on October 12, 1833 in Meiningen. From 1854 he studied at the University of Leipzig , the following two years at the University of Munich , in 1856 and 1857 at the University of Jena and then at the one in Berlin Philology and Linguistics. In November 1858, he was awarded the title of doctor at the university mentioned before . In June of the same year he had been hired as an assistant at the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg . In the following year he returned to his hometown and supported his father, who had meanwhile become ill, in the library .

When his father died in 1860, Bechstein continued to run the library. A research trip took him to Göttingen , Hamburg and Wolfenbüttel , and in the middle of 1861 he moved to Leipzig . From February 1866 he taught philology at the University of Jena, in 1869 he was promoted to associate professor . In 1871 he switched to the University of Rostock , where he taught until his death on October 5, 1894.

Bechstein contributed six articles to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

Works

• Old German fairy tales, sagas and legends (1863)
• From the calendar diary of the Wittenberg master's degree and Marburg professor Victorin Schönfeld 1875
• Tristan and Isolt in German Poetry of the Modern Era (1876)
• The antiquities in our written language today (1878)

literature

• Wolfgang Golther :  Bechstein, Reinhold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 752 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Reinhold Bechstein  - Sources and full texts

• Literature about Reinhold Bechstein in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Reinhold Bechstein in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium