Rudolf Meissner

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Georg Paul Rudolf Meißner , also called Meissner or Meiszner (born February 3, 1862 in Glogau , Silesia , † October 27, 1948 in Bonn ) was a German German and Scandinavian Medievalist (old Germanist). He was professor for Germanic Philology and rector of the University of Bonn .

Life and professional history

Meißner comes from a middle-class family, his father was the manufacturer C. Augustin Meißner (distiller, vinegar and wine vinegar producer) and his mother was Minna Meißner. He was married to Eleonore (1880–1948), a daughter of Robert Vischer and granddaughter of Friedrich Theodor Vischer . The Viennese old Germanist Dietrich Kralik also belonged to Meißner's relatives by marriage . The couple remained childless.

After attending school and high school in Glogau, he studied classical and German philology in Göttingen from 1880 to 1886 with Friedrich Bechtel , Wilhelm Dilthey , Karl Goedeke , Moritz Heyne, among others . From 1881 to 1882 he heard in Berlin with Karl Müllenhoff and Wilhelm Scherer, among others . In Göttingen he did his doctorate with Moritz Heyne with a thesis on the songs of Bertold Steinmar von Klingnau . In 1888 the state examination for classical philology took place there, and he also completed his habilitation in Göttingen in 1896 with Gustav Roethe with a Scandinavian thesis on the Strengleikar (Old Norse prose translated from Old French).

From 1896 to 1906 he was a private lecturer for German language and literature at the University of Göttingen. From 1889 to 1902 he was Moritz Heyne's assistant for reorganizing, editing and editing the German dictionary . In 1906 he followed the call to a professorship in Königsberg for German and Nordic philology until 1913. In his last year in Königsberg he was elected dean of the Philosophical Faculty. In the winter semester of 1913 he accepted the chair for Germanic Philology in Bonn until his retirement in 1931. From 1928 to 1929 he was rector of the University of Bonn. After his retirement, he continued to hold lectures from 1932 and, after the Second World War, took up a full professorship for German studies from 1946 until his death in 1948.

Meissner's main teaching and research interests were German and Scandinavian literature of the Middle Ages. He taught the Nibelungenlied and the Nibelungen saga , Walther von der Vogelweide , Old Germanic poetry and metrics, and Old Norse and Old High German. In connection with his research on the Old Germanic literatures and languages, he published works, in particular on the poetry of the scales and on the Old Norse legal texts. He was also occupied with the work of Henrik Ibsen .

Memberships

Like other colleagues, Rudolf Meißner was a member of the "Association of Friends of Iceland". He was also a member of domestic and foreign academic institutions such as the Norwegian Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi .

Honors

In the Kirchberg district in Pirmasens there is a Rudolf-Meißner-Straße.

Works

  • Bertold Steinmar von Klingnau and his songs (= Göttingen Contributions to German Philology , Volume 1), Schöning, Paderborn / Münster 1866 OCLC 248542737 (Dissertation University of Göttingen 1886, 31 pages).
  • German Dictionary , Volume 9: Schiefeln - Seele , as editor with Moritz Heyne. (Leipzig, 1899)
  • The Strengleikar, a contribution to the history of Norse prose literature , M. Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1902.
  • Skald poetry. A lecture (Halle / S., M. Niemeyer, 1904)
  • The story of the people from the Lachswassertal (translation) (Jena, E. Diedrichs, Thule Collection, Vol. 6, 1913)
  • The Kenningar of the Skalds. A contribution to Scaldic poetics (Bonn / Leipzig, K. Schroeder, 1921)
  • Eysteinn Äsgrimsson: The lily. Poetry (translation) (Bonn / Leipzig, K. Schroeder, 1922)
  • The North Germans and Christianity. Speech at the beginning of the rectorate 1927–28 (Bonn, Bonner academic speeches 1., 1929)
  • Skaldic Reader (Ed. With EA Kock) (Halle / S., M. Niemeyer, 1931)
  • Translations of old Norwegian legal texts in the series: "Germanenrechte" (Weimar, Böhlau, 1935–1950)
    • Norwegian law. The legal book of the gulathing (Weimar, Germanenrechte Bd. 6, 1935)
    • Norwegian law. The law of allegiance (Weimar, Germanenrechte Vol. 5, 1938)
    • Norwegian law. The law book of Frostothings (Weimar, Germanenrechte Bd. 4, 1939)
    • Land law of King Magnus Hakonarson (Weimar, Germanic Rights New Series (NF), North Germanic Law 1., 1941)
    • Fragments of the law books of Borgarthing and Eidsivathing (Weimar, Germanenrechte NF Nordgermanisches Recht 2., 1942)
    • City rights of King Magnus Hakonarson for Bergen. Fragments of the Birkinsel law and seafaring law of the Jonsbok (Weimar, Germanic rights NF North Germanic law 3rd, post mortem 1950)
  • The king mirror. Konungsskuggsjä (translation) (Halle / S., M. Niemeyer, 1944)

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  1. ↑ differently, the year of birth is also given as 1863, e.g. in: DNB
personal data
SURNAME Meissner, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meissner, Rudolf; Meiszner, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German old Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1948
Place of death Bonn