Richard Heinzel

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Richard Heinzel

Richard Heinzel (born November 3, 1838 in the Istrian port town of Gafers (Capodistria) in the Austrian Empire , † April 4, 1905 in Vienna ) was an Austrian German and Scandinavian Medievalist .

Life

Heinzel's father Wenzeslaus was a grammar school prefect in Gorizia , his mother Adelheid was a teacher from Prussia . Heinzel's maternal grandfather was Friedrich John .

From 1857 to 1860 he studied Classical and German Philology at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1862. In 1860 he passed the teaching examination for Latin and in 1866 for Greek. From 1860 to 1868 he held various teaching positions and then from 1868 to 1873 he succeeded Karl Tomaschek at the chair for older German language and literature in Graz. In 1873 he followed Wilhelm Scherer as a full professor of German language and literature at the University of Vienna, where he became the first director of the seminar for German philology (today's Institute for German Studies). He kept this professorship until his death by suicide .

Heinzel's teaching and research areas were the Germanic languages ​​and literatures of the Middle Ages and the literary history of the 18th century . From the corpus of Middle High German literature, he taught especially on the Nibelungenlied and the works of Hartmann von Aue , Wolfram von Eschenbach , Heinrich von Morungen and Walther von der Vogelweide . He taught other Germanic philologies on the Old English Beowulf epic and in Scandinavian studies on the Edda , especially on the songs of the Codex Regius (Lieder-Edda). Heinzel taught the relevant grammars and metrics for these areas. Another field was Germanic antiquity. For early modern German literature he taught the work and language of Martin Luther and more recently the work of Goethe .

The number and names of his academic students are significant: Ferdinand Detter , Theodor von Grienberger , Max Hermann Jellinek , Carl von Kraus , Primus Lessiak , Karl Luick , Rudolf Much , Joseph Seemüller , Samuel Singer , Oskar Walzel , Richard Maria Werner , Edmund Wießner , Konrad Zwierzina (1864–1941).

In honor of Heinzel, a portrait relief designed by Carl Kundmann was unveiled on May 28, 1914 in the arcade courtyard of the main building of the University of Vienna .

Publications (selection)

  • History of the Lower Franconian business language (Paderborn, Schönigh, 1874)
  • On the style of old Germanic poetry (K. Trübner, Strasbourg, 1875)
  • About the forecast (Vienna, meeting reports Akad. D. Wiss. Wien 117.2, 1889)
  • About the Ostrogoth heroic saga (Vienna, meeting reports Akad. D. Wiss. Wien 119.3, 1889)
  • About the French Grail Novels (Vienna, memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, philos.-hist. Class 40.3, 1891)
  • On the poem by King Orendel (Vienna, reports from the Akad. D. Wiss. Wien 126.1, 1892)
  • About Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival (Vienna, meeting reports Akad. D. Wiss. Wien 130.1, 1893)
  • Treatises on old German drama (Vienna, reports from the Akad. D. Wiss. Wien 134,10, 1896)
  • Description of the sacred drama in the German Middle Ages (Hamburg / Leipzig, 1898)
  • Small fonts. ed. by Carl von Kraus (Heidelberg, C. Winter, 1907)
  • Letters to Wilhelm Scherer. Edited by Hans-Harald Müller and Felix Oehmichen, with the collaboration of Christine Putzo (S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2019). (Contributions to the history of German studies; 11).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unveiling of a Heinzel monument in the University of Vienna. With a photograph. In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 23/1914 (XIXth year), June 7, 1914, p. 6, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb.
personal data
SURNAME Heinzel, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Germanic Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Koper , Slovenia
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1905
Place of death Vienna