Richard Kienast

Richard Kienast (born September 11, 1892 in Berlin ; † February 3, 1976 in Mannheim ) was a German German philologist . He taught as a full professor at the University of Heidelberg .

Life

Richard Kienast was the son of the pharmacy owner Edmund Kienast and his wife Jenny, née Sommerfeld. After graduating from high school, he began studying Germanic and classical philology in the spring of 1911. After the outbreak of the First World War , he did military service from August onwards. In the spring of 1919 from the Army with the rank of lieutenant dismissed, he joined temporarily a volunteer corps to. From 1919 to 1921 he continued his studies and made his living in Potsdam from 1920 to 1926 as a tutor for the sons of the then Crown Prince Wilhelm . After receiving his doctorate ( Johann Valentin Andreae and the four genuine Rosicrucian writings) on March 12, 1924 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin as Dr. phil. he took further exams, so in 1927 the pedagogical exam to qualify for teaching at higher schools. After that he was a study assessor. In the summer of 1929 he became senior assistant at the Germanic seminar at the University of Berlin, where he completed his habilitation there in the spring of 1934 in Germanic philology and then worked as a private lecturer .

Kienast, who was a member of the DNVP in 1922/23 , joined the NSDAP at the beginning of the National Socialist era in 1933 . In 1936 he became chairman of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association at the University of Berlin.

From 1936 to 1945 and in the post-war period from 1948 until his retirement in September 1957, he worked as a professor of German philology and director of the German seminar at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Universität Heidelberg (1941/1942 dean of the Philosophical Faculty). His temporary release was arranged by the American military administration in November 1945. In January 1947 he was initially classified as a follower after a judicial chamber procedure , he was briefly resumed teaching in 1947, but was dismissed again by the American military administration in August 1947. After an appointment procedure, Kienast was denazified as “exonerated” at the end of October 1947 and was able to continue teaching at Heidelberg University from the spring of 1948. He was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (1941–1954) and a member of the German Academy of Sciences (from 1955)

Kienast was married to the student Elisabeth, née Roggatz. His sons were the former professor of ancient history at the University of Düsseldorf Dietmar Kienast and Burkhart Kienast , at the time professor of ancient oriental philology at the University of Heidelberg. His estate (signature: Heid. Hs. 4039 ) is kept in the Heidelberg University Library.

Fonts (selection)

• Selected Old High German language monuments. With notes and glossary . Heidelberg 1948, OCLC 859658659 .
• as editor: Studies on the German Philology of the Middle Ages. Friedrich Panzer on his 80th birthday on September 4, 1950 . Heidelberg 1950, OCLC 1016209785 .
• Hausens Scheltliet (MF 47, 33) and Der Sumer von Triere . Berlin 1961, OCLC 641910364 .
• The Hartmann Songbook C2 . Berlin 1963, OCLC 879844706 .

literature

• Elfriede Stutz: Richard Kienast in memory. In: Ruperto Carola 57, 1976, pp. 111-112
• Ute Schwab and Elfriede Stutz (eds.): Philological studies. Commemorative publication for Richard Kienast. Heidelberg 1978, ISBN 3-533-02772-4 .
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986. Springer-Verlag, Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88834-5 , p. 332 f.

Web links

• Publications by Richard Kienast in the Opac der Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2009, p. 332.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Kühlmann : German and German Studies. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Sellin , Eike Wolgast (Eds.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism. Springer Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-540-21442-9 , p. 358