Reinhold Steig

Reinhold Steig's grave in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf

Reinhold Albert Steig (born December 1, 1857 in Woldenberg ; † March 11, 1918 in Friedenau ) was a German literary historian .

Reinhold Steig was born as the son of the master plumber Karl Steig and his wife Julia, nee. Kuhm-Piepkorn was born and grew up in Neumark, Friedeberg district. He attended grammar school in Landsberg an der Warthe, where he passed his school leaving examination in autumn 1877. After studying Classical Philology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, he received his doctorate degree on January 18, 1882 with a thesis on Theocrit's Idylls. phil. PhD. He then worked as a grammar school teacher, with the title of professor from 1899, until his death in Berlin. From Herman Grimm he was appointed administrator of the written estate of the Brothers Grimm . He was also suggested by Herman Grimm as administrator of the written estate of Bettina and Achim von Arnim of the Arnim family, but died in 1918 and was unable to take up this task. He is best known as a researcher and editor in the field of German Romanticism .

He later came under fire for his anti-Jewish attitude - he named Ludwig Geiger , for example, "one of the busiest, most repulsive literary Jews there can be" - and because he and Herman Grimm may have destroyed "unpleasant papers" from the Grimm estate. He denied Bettina von Arnim's authorship with regard to the Poland brochure ("To the dissolved Prussian National Assembly"), which appeared anonymously in January 1849 and in which she demanded a Poland free from Prussian claims to property. However, he knew the true authorship. He noted this on a copy that was in the estate of Varnhagen , and he was also familiar with Bettina's manuscripts. The fact was only corrected in 1954 by Ursula Püschel .

Steig lived in Berlin-Friedenau , where he also died. His grave is on the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Works (selection)

Achim von Arnim and those close to him, edited by R. Steig and Herman Grimm, 3 vols., Stuttgart and Berlin 1904
Clemens Brentano and the Brothers Grimm , Stuttgart and Berlin 1914
Goethe and the Brothers Grimm , 1892, reprint 1972
Heinrich von Kleist's Berlin Fights , Verlag Spemann, Stuttgart, Berlin, 1901, reprint: Heilbronn, 2006
New customer on Heinrich von Kleist , Verlag Reimer, Berlin, 1902, reprint 1969

Individual evidence

↑ De Theocriti idylliorum compositione . Berlin 1882, p. 47.
↑ ^a ^b Peter-Anton von Arnim: The estate of the poets Achim and Bettina von Arnim . Culture report 2/99 of the working group of independent cultural institutes e. V. (ASKI)
^ Berthold Friemel: Directory of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's correspondence (torso version). Berlin 1992. page 36.
^ ^A ^b Daniel Sanders: Enlightened German Studies in the 19th Century . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, page 416, note 1.
^ Berthold Friemel: Directory of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's correspondence (torso version). Berlin 1992. page 37.
^ "The style speaks against Bettina's authorship." In: Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 2nd Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1906, vol. 6, p. 78 .

Web links

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Literature by and about Reinhold Steig in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Go up, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Steig, Reinhold Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	December 1, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Woldenberg
DATE OF DEATH	March 11, 1918
Place of death	Berlin - Friedenau

[diss-1] De Theocriti idylliorum compositione . Berlin 1882, p. 47.

[Arnim-2] Peter-Anton von Arnim: The estate of the poets Achim and Bettina von Arnim . Culture report 2/99 of the working group of independent cultural institutes e. V. (ASKI)

[Friemel_1992_36-3] Berthold Friemel: Directory of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's correspondence (torso version). Berlin 1992. page 36.

[Sanders-4] A ^b Daniel Sanders: Enlightened German Studies in the 19th Century . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, page 416, note 1.

[Friemel_1992_37-5] Berthold Friemel: Directory of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's correspondence (torso version). Berlin 1992. page 37.

[Goedeke-6] "The style speaks against Bettina's authorship." In: Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 2nd Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1906, vol. 6, p. 78 .