Richard Wülker

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Professor Richard Wülker

Richard Paul Wülker , until 1884 Wülcker , (born July 29, 1845 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 8, 1910 in Leipzig ) was a German English student and professor of English language and literature at the University of Leipzig . From 1888 he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and from 1900 royal Saxon Privy Councilor .

Life

family

Richard Paul Wülker was born the son of a wealthy silver dealer. His grandfather Friedrich Ernst Wülker was a silver goods manufacturer and became Senator of the Free City of Frankfurt . His father Philipp Heinrich Friedrich Wülker (born July 13, 1807 in Frankfurt am Main; † June 18, 1880 ibid) owned the JHP Schott Söhne silver goods store in Frankfurt am Main. His mother Anna Margarethe (born November 5, 1816 - † May 5, 1894), was the daughter of Johann Martin Schott. Richard, one of the couple's three sons, and his older brother, who later became a German specialist and archivist Ernst Wülcker , were able to inspire their father for literature and science at an early age. There was also an extensive library in the parental home.

Professional background

Richard Wülker as a soldier, 1871

Wülker attended the model school in his hometown from 1852 to 1860 and later, from 1860 to 1865, the municipal high school . After passing his Abitur , he began studying English, German and Romance languages at the universities in Berlin , Leipzig and Marburg . He had to briefly interrupt his studies because of his participation in the Franco-German War from 1870 to 1871. Here he acquired the Iron Cross 2nd class and later published a collection of 50 of his old field post letters. On the approach, Wülker was suffering from foot problems in the neighborhood in Grünstadt . The related letters were printed together with a military photo in the book "The Palatinate in 1870" (Grünstadt, 1906). At Leipzig University doctorate he in 1872 with the thesis about the Gospel Nicodemi in Western literature for Dr. phil. Just one year later he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig with a habilitation thesis on the subject of an overview of the New Anglo-Saxon language monuments, along with a treatise on the language and the author of the nuns' rule Ancrene Riwle and the homily Holi Meidenhad. From 1873 he was a private lecturer at the Philosophical Faculty of Leipzig University.

As a result, he made great contributions to English studies as an author and editor . The Old English Reader he wrote was published in 1874 and 1879 in two parts. In 1875/76 Wülker received an extraordinary professorship , and since 1880 he was a full professor of English language and literature at the University of Leipzig. In 1877 he founded the magazine for English philology Anglia together with Moritz Trautmann , which he published himself until 1890. Wülker and Trautmann were among the founders of the Plessavia fraternity in Leipzig in 1878 . Smaller Anglo-Saxon poems also appeared under his editorship in 1882 . His work Plan for the History of Anglo-Saxon Literature. With an overview of the Anglo-Saxon linguistics appeared in 1885. In addition, Wülker was editor of the library of Anglo-Saxon poetry , published in three volumes from 1883 to 1898, and the library of Anglo-Saxon prose founded by Christian Wilhelm Michael Grein. In 1888 he became a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig. In 1900 he was awarded the title of Royal Saxon Privy Councilor for his services.

Marriage and offspring

Richard Wülker died on August 8, 1910, at the age of 65 in Leipzig. Since 1880 he was married to Gertrud Amalie Luise Lange (* March 17, 1860; † June 19, 1945), the daughter of the Leipzig professor of classical philology Ludwig Lange . The couple had three children, two sons and a daughter. Louis Philippe Wülker (born February 3, 1881 in Leipzig, † 23 August 1953 in Hannover ), Margarethe Adelheid Wülker (born August 10, 1883 in Leipzig, † 17 August 1948 in Koenigstein im Taunus ) and Gerhard Wülker , the zoologist was .

Publications (selection)

author

  • Charles Dickens and his works. Soul, Leipzig 1898.
  • Ground plan for the history of Anglo-Saxon literature. With an overview of Anglo-Saxon linguistics. Veit, Leipzig 1885.
  • Old English reading book. Niemeyer, Halle 1874/1879 or the history of English literature from the earliest times to the present. 2nd edition, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1911, (2 volumes).
  • Fifty letters from the years 1870 and 1871. Private printing 1871 and 2nd edition, Niemeyer, Halle 1876.

editor

  • Out of my life. Poetry and Truth / Wolfgang von Goethe. Seemann, Berlin around 1912.
  • Codex Vercellensis. Faithful reproduction of the Anglo-Saxon manuscript for Vercelli. Veit, Leipzig 1894.
  • The Beowulfslied along with the smaller epic, lyrical, didactic and historical pieces. Wiegand, Kassel 1881–1883.
  • Mess-Memorial of the Frankfurt bookseller Michel Harder. Lent mass 1569. Joseph Baer, ​​Frankfurt / Paris 1873.
  • Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies by Thomas Wright. Second edition . 2 volumes. Truebner & Co, Ludgate Hill, London 1884

literature

  • Adolf Hirschfeld-Birch: In memory of Richard Wülker. In: Reports on the negotiations of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig. Teubner, Leipzig 1910. pp. 491-500.
  • Ulf Morgenstern : English studies at the University of Leipzig. The English Seminar in the German Empire, Weimar Republic and Third Reich 1891–1945. (Master's thesis), Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2006; ISBN 3-374-02356-8 .
  • Birgit Weyel , Sabine Hock : Wülcker, Richard . In: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon. 2nd volume. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 . P. 576 ( online version )
  • Wülker, Richard Paul in Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 20. Leipzig 1909, p. 764.
  • Henning Roet de Rouet: Richard Paul Wülker - From the free city of Frankfurt am Main to the muse city of Leipzig. In: Henning Roet de Rouet: "Let's hope for the best. War letters written in 1870/1871 by the volunteer Richard Paul Wülker from Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt 2020.

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SURNAME Wülker, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wülker, E. Richard Paul; Wülcker, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English studies and professor for English language and literature at the University of Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1910
Place of death Leipzig