Richard Maria Werner
Richard Maria Werner (born August 11, 1854 in Iglau ; † January 31, 1913 in Vienna ) was an Austrian German scholar and literary historian .
Life
Richard Maria Werner was born on August 11, 1854 in Jihlava, in as crown land for Empire of Austria belonging Markgrafschaft Moravia .
Werner studied philology, first at the University of Strasbourg and then at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin with Wilhelm Scherer . From 1879 on, he taught at the University of Graz , where he introduced to Richard Heinzel habilitated , and in 1886 full professor at the University of Lvov .
Werner died in Vienna in January 1913.
research
In his academic career, Werner remained true to literary positivism. Werner wrote an extremely comprehensive work on lyric analysis with the title "Poetry and Poetry", in which he describes the development of a poem in all its phases as being born out of experience . With a positivistic scheme he spans the poetry into three subspecies, from which he in turn calculates 500 manifestations by crossing them with formal and thematic categories.
One of Richard Maria Werner's main research areas was the north German poet Friedrich Hebbel .
Works
- Ludwig Philipp Hahn. A contribution to the history of the Sturm und Drang times, 1877
- Poetry and Poet, 1890
- Betty Paoli, 1898
- Consummate and wrestling. Poets and Seals of Modern Times, 1900
- Hebbel, a picture of life, 1904
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1908
- German poets and thinkers of modern times, 1914
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Werner, Richard Maria . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 55th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1887, pp. 69–72 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Maria Werner in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Richard Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Germanist and literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iglau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1913 |
| Place of death | Vienna |