Rudolf Hittmair
Rudolf Hittmair (born July 30, 1889 in Vienna , † November 21, 1940 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian Anglicist .
Life
From 1908 Rudolf Hittmair studied philology in Innsbruck with Karl Brunner and Rudolf Fischer, among others . He received his doctorate from the University of Innsbruck in 1912 and was drafted into military service in 1914. During this time he worked as an educator for the sons of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este . In 1915 he became an assistant at the Austrian National Library and worked in Vienna from 1920 to 1927 as a librarian, publisher and bookseller.
Hittmair completed his habilitation in 1925 and in the same year became associate professor and full professor for English language and literature at the TH Dresden from 1927 to 1932 . As director he headed the English seminar and was co-director of the foreign seminar of the TH Dresden. Another teaching station was the University of Tübingen from 1932 to 1936 , where he taught as a full professor and became acquainted with Victor Klemperer , who called him “scientific zero” in his diary.
A successor to Johannes Hoops as professor of English philology at the University of Heidelberg was rejected by the rector of the university in 1935 with the remark that Hittmair was "politically unreliable".
In 1936, Hittmair accepted a call from the University of Vienna to the Department of English Philology, where he took over the linguistic-oriented chair that was newly founded in 1936. He conducted research on the English publisher William Caxton and the language of Geoffrey Chaucer, among others .
After the “ Anschluss ” of Austria, Hittmair was removed from civil service on September 1, 1938 because of denunciations and, as politically unreliable, he did not receive a pension. After objections from well-known personalities from the Third Reich, who testified to Hittmair's National Socialist attitude, part of his salary was re-awarded in 1940 so that he could look after his wife and their five children. After his discharge from civil service, Hittmair worked in the Wagner University bookstore in Innsbruck. In the course of the attack on Poland , Hittmair was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a reserve officer, but died in Innsbruck in 1940.
Works
- England in the mirror of state poems in the late 17th and early 18th centuries (1926)
- Middle English reader for beginners (together with Karl Brunner , 1929)
- William Caxton. England's first printer and publisher (1931)
- From Caxton's Forewords and Afterwords (1934)
- Word-forming forces in today's English (1937)
literature
- Hittmair Rudolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 338 f. (Direct links on p. 338 , p. 339 ).
- Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 373.
- Rudolf Hittmair . In: Frank-Rutger Hausmann : English and American Studies in the “Third Reich” . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 467 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Hittmair in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of Rudolf Hittmair
Individual evidence
- ↑ Victor Klemperer: “Collecting life, not asking for what and why” Diaries 1925–1932 . Volume 2. Berlin 1996, p. 741.
- ^ Hausmann, p. 238.
- ^ Hausmann, p. 273.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hittmair, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Anglicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1940 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |