Reinhold Koehler
Reinhold Koehler (born June 24, 1830 in Weimar ; † August 15, 1892 there ; also Reinhold Koehler ) was a German literary historian and librarian . Köhler was the chief librarian at the Grand Ducal Library in Weimar.
Life
Köhler was the son of court preacher Ernst Friedrich Köhler (1788–1851); his mother was a forester's daughter from near Ilmenau . After completing school at the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium Weimar , he attended the university from Easter 1848 and studied classical antiquity in Jena , Leipzig and Bonn for three and a half years .
In 1851 his father died, leaving the widow with five children in very limited circumstances. Since then, Köhler has stayed at home, earning the family's living as an employee at the library and giving private lessons. He passed the state examination in May 1852 in Berlin; his doctorate on the basis of a learned mythological and source-historical study on the Dionysiacs of the Nonnos of Panopolis took place in Jena in 1853.
Köhler had been a librarian at the Ducal Library in Weimar since 1856 - first alongside Ludwig Preller , then next to Adolf Schöll . In 1881 he became its head. After five years he was appointed "Senior Librarian". He joined the “Neuweimar” association and became friends with Peter Cornelius . In 1886 he was accepted as a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .
His contributions ranged from the Middle Ages to Hans Sachs , whose prose dialogues he edited, to the English comedians, to the classics and into the 19th century.
He worked on the Grimm dictionary and contributed numerous building blocks to the history of English and Romance literature: Shakespeare and Dante, especially in their German afterlife, Chaucer and Boccaccio.
Köhler is particularly concerned with fairy tales. But he wrote very short texts, notes and many comments. He published only one well-rounded essay, namely on fairy tales: “About European Folk Tales” in 1865. He wrote comments on the Sicilian fairy tales by Laura Gonzenbach (1870), later he worked together on the comments on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm von Johannes Bolte and Georg Polívka . He also wrote old miners' songs ( 1858) and essays on fairy tales and folk songs (1894).
On October 11, 1890, he fell and fractured his thigh. After a long suffering, he died on August 15, 1892.
Fonts
- Smaller writings , collected and edited by Johannes Bolte
literature
- Ingrid Tomkowiak , Rudolf Schenda : Istorie bellissime. Italian folk prints of the 19th century from the Reinhold Köhlers collection in Weimar . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-447-03424-6 .
- Erich Schmidt : Koehler, Reinhold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 317 f.
- Ingo Reiffenstein: Reinhold Koehler. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 311 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the SAW: Reinhold Köhler. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 2, 2016 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Reinhold Köhler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Reinhold Köhler in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koehler, Reinhold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koehler, Reinhold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary historian and librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1892 |
| Place of death | Weimar |