Waldemar Oehlke

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Waldemar Oehlke (born April 29, 1879 in Krückwald (locality in the Gdingen district of Klein Katz ), West Prussia province , † July 14, 1949 in Göttingen ) was a German German scholar and literary historian .

Life

Oehlke studied since the summer semester 1900 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and received his doctorate in 1904 under Gustav Roethe on " Bettina von Arnim's letter novels", in which he a. a. compared the letters she actually wrote to Goethe with those published in her epistolary novels. Between 1904 and 1907 he worked as a private tutor and private tutor and then went to school in Gdansk, where he became a senior teacher at the Royal High School in 1909. In 1911 he married the educator Marie Auguste Wilhelmine Kuhfuß (called "Mimi") and in 1914 moved to the Royal Wilhelmsgymnasium in Berlin. With his two-volume work Lessing und seine Zeit , he was able to habilitate at the TH Berlin Berlin in 1919 . Here he taught first as a private lecturer, from 1920 as an associate honorary professor , then as an honorary professor of literary history. Further stations in his scientific career led him in the 1920s a. a. to Beijing, Tokyo and New York. After 1945 he was an honorary honorary professor. D. active at the University of Göttingen.

Sometimes using the pseudonym Waldemar Thymian, he also published his own works of fiction. Oehlke processed extensive trips in several travel reports.

Fonts

As an author

  • Bettina von Arnim's letter novels , Mayer a. Müller, Berlin, 1905
  • Outline of the history of German literature , Velhagen u. Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig, 1919
  • Lessing and his time , 2 volumes, CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich, 1919
  • History of German Literature , Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld, 1919
  • From Luther to Klopstock. German poets from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries , Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld, 1920
  • German literature since Goethe's death and its foundations , Halle ad S., Niemeyer, 1921
  • Schopenhauer's theory of ideas , Rösl & Cie., Munich, 1921
  • In East Asia and North America as a German professor: travel report 1920-1926 , Ernst Hofmann & Co., Darmstadt, 1926
  • German - Signposts in semester letters for students of German language and literature , Ernst Hofmann & Co., Darmstadt, 1927
  • World literature in outline , Ernst Hofmann & Co., Darmstadt, 1931
  • Back to Goethe. Because he is ours 1832-1932 , Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, 1932
  • Outline of world literature, especially German poetry , Deutsche Bibliothek, Berlin, 1939
  • Sixty years of travel for a Danzig man. Through the world and around the earth , Kafemann, Danzig, 1940
  • The Speicherinsel , narrative, Globus Verlag / Meidinger's youth publications, Berlin, 1940
  • The Burgs and the Straß (a conservative Gdansk episode), Kafemann, 1940
  • Contemporary German literature , Deutsche Bibliothek Verlagsgesellschaft, 1942
  • Gold of the Baltic Sea, a story from the time of Alexander the Great for the more mature youth , Erwin Kintzel Verlag, Berlin, 1943

As a translator, editor and co-editor

  • Lessing's works. Choice in six parts. Based on the Hempelschen new ed., With introduction and Comments provided by Julius Petersen in connection with Waldemar Oehlke [u. a.]. 6 vols., Bong, Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, Stuttgart, [1908]
  • Bettina von Arnims Complete Works , ed. using unprinted material, 7 volumes, Propylaea, Berlin, 1920–1922
  • Lessing's works. Complete edition in twenty-five parts . Ed. With introductions and Notes and a complete register vers. by Julius Petersen and Waldemar v. Olshausen in connection with Karl Borinski, Fritz Budde, Alfred Hirsch, Waldemar Oehlke [u. a.] Bong, Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, Stuttgart, [1925–1935]
  • Kaiserliche Verse , Herbig, Berlin, 1940, transmission of poems by Meiji , Tennō of Japan; several editions (Oehlke based the German version on translations into English and French)
  • Soul of East Asia: Sino-Japanese treasure trove of quotations , Herbig, Berlin, 1941

literature

  • Technische Hochschule Berlin - course catalog for the summer semester 1938 and for the winter semester 1938–39, ed. March 1938 (opus4.kobv.de/opus4-tuberlin/files/2337/TUB_VV_1938)
  • Andreas Wittbrodt: Hototogisu is not a nightingale. Traditional Japanese poetry forms in German-language poetry (1849–1999). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89971-257-9 .
  • Peter Oliver Loew : The literary Danzig - 1793 to 1945: building blocks for a local cultural history. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2008, ISBN 3-631-57571-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Oehlke, Waldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thyme, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Krückwald
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1949
Place of death Goettingen