Ulrich Pretzel

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Ulrich Pretzel (born July 14, 1898 in Berlin ; † November 20, 1981 in Hamburg ) was a German medievalist .

Life

Pretzel was a son of the Berlin educator and government director Carl Pretzel (1864-1935), his brother was the publicist Sebastian Haffner . He took part in the First World War and then studied German with Gustav Roethe and Arthur Hübner in Berlin . In 1927 he received his doctorate with Edward Schröder in Göttingen with a thesis on the early history of German Reims . In 1931 he became an assistant at the German Commission of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, where he worked, among other things, for the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm and as an editor for the Anzeiger für deutscher Antiquity . Since 1937 he was a member of the Nazi Lecturer Association . In 1938 he completed his habilitation at the Germanic seminar at Berlin University, where he became a lecturer in 1941 . Since 1938 he worked in the international office of the lecturer. After Pretzel was planned to be an adjunct professor at the German University in Prague in 1944, he did military service instead from October 1944.

From 1947 to 1968 Ulrich Pretzel was a full professor for German philology at the University of Hamburg . Pretzel wrote more than 100 scientific papers on the literary and linguistic history of the German Middle Ages . His areas of expertise included text criticism , metrics , lexicography , Wolfram von Eschenbach and the history of German studies. In 1958 he published an addendum to Matthias Lexer's Middle High German pocket dictionary . His New High German translation of the Nibelungenlied was published in 1973, and his last work, Middle High German Meaning Studies , was published posthumously in 1982 . He was also head of the department for the Middle High German dictionary founded in 1941 and since 1955 an external member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

Ulrich Pretzel's numerous students include Wolfgang Bachofer , Wolfgang Beutin , Hans Eggers , Karl Stackmann , Klaus von See and Peter Wapnewski . The Pretzels private library, comprising around 50,000 volumes, has been in the Brothers Grimm Museum in Kassel since 2004/05 .

literature

  • Reiner Bölhoff:  Pretzel, Ulrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 706 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Peter Wapnewski : In memory of Ulrich Pretzel (1898-1981). In: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 17 (1982), pp. 1-3.
  • Karl Stackmann: "A scholar of the most genuine kind". Ulrich Pretzel, July 14, 1898 to November 20, 1981. In: Journal for German Philology 102 (1983), pp. 321–334.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 465.