Richard M. Meyer

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Richard M. Meyer

Richard Moritz Meyer (born July 5, 1860 in Berlin ; † October 8, 1914 there ) was a German specialist in German .

Life

Meyer was the son of a wealthy Jewish banker. He studied at the University of Berlin , where he was a student of Wilhelm Scherer . In 1886 he was there with a thesis on Jonathan Swift and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg habilitation . In the same year he began teaching in Berlin, initially as a private lecturer . In 1901 he was appointed associate professor of German literary history . Meyer and his wife Estella ran a literary salon in his city palace on Vossstrasse in Berlin .

The focus of Meyer’s research and teaching was on German grammar and Old Germanic, New High German and modern literary history. In contrast to the majority of contemporary German literary scholars, he had a broad, open concept of literature that also includes, for example, newspaper and feature articles ; his approach is “not ontological ('poetry mode of being'), but empirical. It has no other criterion than the consensus of connoisseurs ”. In terms of the history of science, Meyer - "Thoroughness is respect for the facts" - can be characterized as a self-confident positivist and eclectic .

Richard Meyer's grave in the Schönhauser Allee cemetery , Berlin

In 1910 Meyer donated the Wilhelm Scherer Prize at Berlin University . The endowment assets of the Wilhelm Scherer Foundation he set up were destroyed by the inflation in 1923, so that the prize could only be awarded in 1920 and 1923. Since 2010, the Scherer Prize has been awarded every two years by the Richard M. Meyer Foundation at Humboldt University and Freie Universität Berlin .

Meyer was appointed to the board of the Nietzsche Archive Foundation in 1910 . After legal disputes with Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche , he resigned his mandate in 1913.

Publications (selection)

  • 1886: Basics of the Middle High German verse construction. Trübner, Strasbourg.
  • 1888, as editor: Wilhelm Scherer : Poetik. Weidmann, Berlin.
  • 1889: Old Germanic poetry according to its formulaic elements. Hertz, Berlin (reprint: Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1985, ISBN 3-487-07657-8 ).
  • 1895: Goethe (= Geisteshelden , Vol. 13-15). 3 volumes. Hofmann, Berlin. 3rd, increased edition 1905.
  • 1897: German characters. Ernst Hofmann & Co., Berlin.
  • 1898: Operation and organization of scientific work. Leonhard Simion, Berlin.
  • 1900: The German Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Georg Bondi, Berlin. ( The nineteenth century in Germany's development . Volume 3) urn : nbn: de: s2w-8781
  • 1900: four hundred catchwords. Teubner, Leipzig.
  • 1902: Outline of modern German literary history. Georg Bondi, Berlin. 2nd, increased edition 1907.
  • 1905: Figures and Problems. Georg Bondi, Berlin.
  • 1906: German stylistics. Beck, Munich. 2nd, improved and increased edition 1913, 3rd, unchanged edition 1930.
  • 1909–1911, as editor: Goethe and his friends in correspondence. 3 volumes. Georg Bondi, Berlin.
  • 1910: Old Germanic history of religion. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig (reprint: Athenaion, Essen 1999).
  • 1911: The canon of German classics. In: New year books for classical antiquity, history and German literature. Volume 14, pp. 208-227.
  • 1913: World literature in the twentieth century: viewed from the German point of view (= Das Weltbild der Gegenwart , Volume 17). German publishing house, Stuttgart. 2nd edition, continued to the present by Paul Wiegler , 1922.
  • 1913: Nietzsche, his life and his works . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung O. Beck, Munich.
  • 1913, as editor: Deutsche Parodien. German song in the mocking song of Gottsched up to our time (= Pandora library , volume 12). Publishing house Georg Müller and Eugen Rentsch, Munich.
  • 1926, as editor (posthumously): The Twelve Best Short Stories in the German Language. Selected by Richard M. Meyer. Gowan & Gray, London 1926.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Richard Moritz Meyer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Richard M. Meyer: Deutsche Stilistik. 2., verb. u. probably edition. Beck, Munich 1913, § 187, pp. 204ff.
  2. ↑ Werner Ross : "Poetry" and "Literature". Attempt at terminological uncertainty. In: Horst Rüdiger (Hrsg.): Literature and poetry. Attempt at a definition . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart – Berlin – Cologne – Mainz 1973, pp. 79–92, here p. 91.
  3. ^ Richard M. Meyer: Philological Aphorisms. In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift , 2, 1910, pp. 641–649, here p. 642, no. 11.
  4. ↑ Ibid., Pp. 646f., No. 75.
  5. ^ Tumult in the workshop instead of the silence of the attic. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 11, 2011, p. 30.
  6. ↑ Know the market when you have to supply it in FAZ of February 17, 2015, page 10
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Richard M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Richard Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1914
Place of death Berlin