Rudolf Grossmann (Romanist)

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Rudolf Grossmann (born July 1, 1892 in Rosario , † February 19, 1980 in Hamburg ) was a German Romance and Hispanicist at the University of Hamburg .

life and work

Grossmann, the merchant's son, who was born and raised in Argentina , came to Germany in 1906. From 1910 he studied in Marburg, Munich and Leipzig until he received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1920. In 1919 he joined the Ibero-American Institute of the University of Hamburg, which was headed by Bernhard Skull , and completed his habilitation there in 1925. He then taught Romance philology and Latin American cultural history at the Romance seminar and became deputy director of the institute. In 1932 he became an associate professor and in 1946 a full professor in a new chair for Hispanic studies . After Skull's death in 1926, he took over the management of the institute in 1926, which has now been separated from that of the Romance Department. In 1928 the Ibero-American Institute was converted into a foundation under civil law and thus separated from the university. In 1945 it, now called "Research Institute", was reintegrated into the seminar. Großmann managed it until 1970.

From 1936 to 1944 Großmann published an Ibero-American Rundschau . He belonged to the group of Romance scholars who spoke out in favor of contemporary research, which was welcome in the Nazi state because of its political relations with Latin America.

“It will be a lasting glory in the history of the Italian and German voluntary associations that, like the Condor Legion , supported national Spain in its armed forces , that they were part of this soldierly educational work of the Caudillo with encouragement and example, and thus also on In this area we built the bridges that already existed on ideological and political ground between the three friendly powers . "

- Grossmann, in Ibero-Amerikanische Rundschau, vol. 11, 1940, p. 132

In a speech given in 1943, Grossmann stated:

"... that Spain will experience the final solution through Franco's ingenious figure in the sense of a victorious activist approach to the ethos of German National Socialism and Italian fascism ."

- Grossmann, The Spanish National Character, January 10, 1943

In November 1933, Großmann signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

During his studies he became a member of the Schaumburgia Marburg gymnastics club .

Fonts

  • Spain and the Elizabethan drama . Hamburg 1920 (Diss. Phil.)
  • The foreign language in the Spanish of the Río de la Plata. A contribution to the problem of the Argentine national language , Hamburg 1926, Habil
  • Practical textbook of Spanish taking into account the South American usage , Hamburg 1922
  • Catalan poetry of the present. A German selection , Hamburg 1923
  • La América española de hoy , Berlin 1930
  • Slabý Grossmann. Dictionary of Spanish and German, Vol. 2: German-Spanish , Leipzig 1937 (6th edition, revised by Carlos Illig, Wiesbaden 2008)
  • The Spanish national character. Lecture given in Leipzig on January 10, 1943, Leipzig 1943
  • The intellectual Ibero-America of today. Lecture . Hamburg 1950
  • History and Problems of Latin American Literature . Munich 1969 (Spanish: Madrid 1972)
  • Großmann was co-founder and co-editor. from the Romance Yearbook

literature

  • Commemoration for the 70th birthday, in the Romance Yearbook , 12, 1962
  • Erika Lorenz, Hans Schneider: Directory of Rudolf Grossmann's writings , in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch 17, 1966, pp. 231–241
  • Homenaje a Rodolfo Grossmann. Festschrift for his 85th birthday , ed. by Sabine Horl, José M. Navarro de Andriaensen, Hans-Karl Schneider. Peter Lang, Bern 1977
  • Obituary in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch , 31, 1980, pp. 5–8
    • Harri Meier: Gedenkworte für Rudolf Grossmann, in: ibid., Pp. 257–260
  • Margot Kruse: Rudolf Grossmann July 1, 1892 - February 19, 1980, in the Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften , Ed .: Annual Reports 1980–1982. Hamburg 1983, p. 29f.
  • Alexander M. Kalkhoff: Romance Philology in the 19th and early 20th Century . Tübingen 2010, (about Hamburg especially p. 180ff)
  • Thomas Bridegroom : Hispanic Studies in the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Old gentlemen of the CC in Hamburg and Harburg. VACC Hamburg and VACC Harburg membership directory. Hamburg 1952, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Grossmann, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grossmann, Rodolfo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosario
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1980
Place of death Hamburg