Victor Michels

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Victor Karl Theodor Michels (born July 3, 1866 in Staßfurt , † February 4, 1929 in Jena ) was a German specialist in German.

Life

Victor was the son of the factory director Friedrich Michels (born October 11, 1835 in Greifswald ; † January 29, 1872 in Staßfurt) and his wife Martha Kullak (1847–1921). After the early death of his father, he grew up with two other siblings in Berlin. In 1874 he attended the Friedrichsgymnasium , in 1876 the Askanische Gymnasium and in 1880 the royal Joachimsthaler Gymnasium . After passing his Abitur exams, he moved to the University of Berlin in October 1884 , where he studied German, linguistics and philosophy. To this end, he attended lectures by Paul Deussen , Wilhelm Dilthey , Adolf Kirchhoff , Friedrich Paulsen , Wilhelm Scherer and Heinrich von Treitschke . After one semester, he moved to Heidelberg University in the spring of 1885 , where his teachers were mainly Karl Bartsch , Kuno Fischer , Ferdinand Holthausen , Wilhelm Ihne , Hermann Osthoff and Fritz Schöll . Here he was a member of the Germanic Romance seminar for a year. In the fall of 1886 he continued his studies at the University of Leipzig where Wilhelm Arndt , Karl von Bahder , Karl Brugmann , Rudolf Hildebrand , Georg Rudolf Koegel , Heinrich Koerting , August Leskien , Robert Scholwin (born June 3, 1850 in Leipzig; † 1. May 1929 ibid.), Anton Springer , Friedrich Heinrich Hermann Techmer (born September 14, 1843 in Pollnow; † January 8, 1891 in Charlottenburg), Ernst Windisch , Wilhelm Anton Wollner (born November 18, 1851 in Moscow; December 14, 1902 in Leipzig) and Friedrich Zarncke shaped his training.

In Leipzig he was a member of the Royal German Seminar for a year and a member of the grammatical society for a year. In 1889 he received his doctorate in Leipzig with the thesis "To change the nominal sex in German" to the doctor of philosophy. In 1892 he qualified as a private lecturer at the University of Göttingen and in 1895 went to the University of Jena as the successor to Friedrich Kaufmann as full professor of German philology and literature and director of the German seminar . Here he was appointed Privy Councilor in 1908, was Rector of Salana in 1916/17 , became a member of the Association for Thuringian History and in 1896 became a member of the Thuringian Historical Commission. He was co-editor of the Germanic-Romanic monthly and on February 23, 1925 became a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig . Michels worked on a dictionary of the Thuringian dialect, published several essays on the Reformation and treatises on Weimar Classics and Romanticism. For example, he edited Clemens Brentano's romances by Rosenkranz, Thomas More Utopia and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Iphigenie.

Michels married in 1895 with Rosa Wagner (1872-1930), the daughter of the professor of geography in Göttingen Hermann Wagner . There is a daughter from the marriage.

Works (selection)

  • To change the nominal gender in German. Leipzig 1889 ( online ), Strasbourg 1896
  • Studies on the oldest German carnival games. Strasbourg 1896
  • Middle High German elementary book. Heidelberg 1900, Heidelberg 1912
  • To Schiller's memory. Jena 1905
  • Instructions for collecting the material for a Thuringian dictionary. Jena 1908
  • Goethe and Jena. Jena 1916
  • About the concept and tasks of German philology. Jena 1917

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Michels. In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers. Rudolph Gärtner, Berlin, 1872, Vol. 16, Col. 125–127 ( online )
  2. ↑ cf. also the curriculum vitae in his doctoral thesis ( online )
  3. ^ Entry at the Saxon Academy of Sciences

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personal data
SURNAME Michels, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michels, Victor Karl Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Staßfurt
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1929
Place of death Jena