Theodor Möbius

August Theodor Möbius (born June 22, 1821 in Leipzig , †  April 25, 1890 ibid) was a German Scandinavian and Germanic Medievalist . He was a professor at the universities of Leipzig and Kiel .

Career

Möbius was the son of the mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius . His younger brother was the educator Paul Möbius .

Theodor Möbius grew up on the Pleißenburg , where the old Leipzig observatory was located, which his father was then head of as an observer . After attending the Nikolaischule he studied classical philology, 1840–42 in Leipzig, 1843/44 in Berlin . He received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1844, where he also passed his state examination. From 1845 to 1861 he was an assistant and later curator at the Leipzig University Library . His habilitation (1852) was followed in 1859 by being appointed associate professor. In 1865 he finally accepted a call to Kiel.

Möbius understood Nordic philology as part of German studies . His fields of activity also included ancient German studies and the ancient English language and literature. He devoted a large part of his work to editing Old Norse texts. He also published an Old Norse-German dictionary.

Works (selection)

• About the older Icelandic saga , Leipzig: Giesecke & Devrient 1852
• Catalogus librorum Islandicorum et Norvegicorum aetatis mediae editorum versorum illustratorum. Skáldatal sive poetarum recensus Eddæ Upsalensis , Leipzig: Engelmann 1856
• Analecta norrœna. Selection from the Icelandic and Norwegian literature of the Middle Ages , Leipzig: Hinrichs 1859 (2nd edition 1877)
• About Old Norse Philology in the Scandinavian North , Leipzig: Serig 1864
• Old Norse glossary. Dictionary for a selection of old Icelandic and old Norwegian prose texts , Leipzig: Teubner 1866
• Danish theory of forms , Kiel: Schwers 1871
• About the Old Norse Language , Halle: Verl. D. Bookstore d. Orphanage 1872

• Directory of the writings published in the field of Old Norse (Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian) language and literature from 1855 to 1879 , Leipzig: Engelmann 1880

literature

• Edith Marold :  Möbius, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 603 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hans Fix: “Dear Möbius!” Karl Weinhold's letters from Breslau to Theodor Möbius (1874–1889). In: Śląska republika uczonych • Silesian Republic of Scholars • Slezská vědecká obec, vol. 7, ed. v. Marek Hałub u. Anna Mańko-Matysiak. Dresden-Wrocław 2016. pp. 249–359. ISBN 978-3-86276-124-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Theodor Möbius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Theodor Möbius  in the German Digital Library
• Overview of the lectures of Theodor Möbius at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1853 to winter semester 1864)