Rudolf Henning

Rudolf Henning (born May 30, 1852 in Kirchdorf (Sundhagen) ; † October 7, 1930 in Heidelberg ) was a German Germanist for the newer German language and literature as well as for the older subject Medieval Studies . He was a full professor at the University of Strasbourg for German Philology and Dean of the Philosophical Faculty until the end of the First World War in 1918. After his expulsion, he worked as a private scholar in Heidelberg. Henning was married to Adele, a daughter of Rudolf Virchow .

Life

From 1870 to 1872 he studied classical and Germanic philology in Bonn and from 1872 to 1874 in Vienna and Strasbourg ( English philology with Bernhard ten Brink ). In Strasbourg he received his doctorate in 1874 under Wilhelm Scherer with a thesis on the Sanctgallic language monuments up to the death of Charlemagne . In 1877 he completed his habilitation in Berlin with Karl Müllenhoff and Richard Zupitza with a more comprehensive work on the Nibelungenlied, in particular on "Lament".

Henning was initially a private lecturer in German studies in Berlin from 1877 to 1881 before taking up a professorship for modern German literature in Strasbourg from the summer semester 1881 to 1895, succeeding Erich Schmidt . From 1895 to 1918 he was full professor of German philology and from 1910 director of the German department, from 1898 to 1899 and from 1907 to 1908 he was dean of the faculty of philosophy.

Henning's teaching and research areas were the older German language and literature ( Hartmann von Aue ) and modern German poetry of the 18th century and Romanticism (Lessing, Goethe, Schiller). In the area of ​​Germanic philology for Scandinavian studies, it was the Old Norse language and literature, the Germanic heroic saga and mythology / religion, as well as the Gothic, Old and Middle High German language and literature. Henning contributed to the higher valuation of prehistory and early history compared to classical archeology and to the assessment of the Nordic cultures as advanced cultures .

Works

• The German house in its historical development (Strasbourg / London, K. Trübner, 1882)
• Nibelung Studies (Strasbourg / London, K. Trübner, 1883)
• The German house types. Subsequent remarks (Strasbourg / London, K. Trübner, 1886)
• The German rune monuments (Strasbourg, K. Trübner, 1889)
• Studies on the History of German Language Vol. 1–5 (Ed.) (1908–1914)
• The helmet of Baldenheim and the related helmets of the early Middle Ages (Strasbourg, K. Trübner, 1907)
• Monuments of the Alsatian Antiquities Collection in Strasbourg in Elsas. From the Neolithic to the Carolingian period (Strasbourg, K. Trübner, 1912)
• Wettu Irmingot and the Hildebrandslied ( ZfdA 58 (1921) pp. 141–151)

A magazine:

• Acta Germanica . From 1890 he published the philological magazine together with Julius Hoffory . Publisher Mayer & Müller, Berlin.

literature

• Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 720–721 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

• Publications by Rudolf Henning in the OPAC of the Regesta imperii