Walther Bulst

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Walther Bulst (born April 12, 1899 in Karlsruhe ; † September 12, 1986 in Heidelberg ) was Professor of Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Heidelberg .

After military service in World War I, Bulst studied German literature, history, literary history, art history and philosophy in Heidelberg, Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich from 1919 onwards, with a doctorate in Heidelberg in 1934 (Rigorosum 1929). From 1930 he was at the University Library in Göttingen . In 1936 he was a research assistant in Berlin and from 1941 at the Prussian State Library . In 1944/45 he was a soldier and was taken prisoner. From 1945 he taught Latin at the University of Heidelberg and in 1949 received the Venia legendi for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and became a dietician. In 1952 he became a private lecturer, in 1953 an associate professor and in 1958 a full professor. In 1957 he was the founding director of the seminar for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages in Heidelberg. In 1967 he retired.

Since 1957 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

He had been married to the medieval historian Marie Luise Bulst-Thiele since 1932 , with whom he also worked. With her he had four sons, including Neithard Bulst (* 1941), history professor in Bielefeld.

Fonts

  • The older Worms letter collection, Monumenta Germaniae Historica , 1977, first Böhlau, Weimar 1949
  • Longobard royal stories, Eugen Diederichs 1927
  • Editor with Marie Luise Bulst-Thiele: Theodericus, Libellus de locis sanctis, Heidelberg: Winter 1976 (report by a German clergyman Theoderich on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, around 1172)
  • Publisher: Marbod von Rennes , Liber decem capitulorum, Heidelberg: Winter 1947
  • Editor with Marie Luise Bulst-Thiele: Hilarii Aurelianensis Versus et ludi, Leiden, Brill 1989
  • Latin Middle Ages. Collected contributions, editor Walter Berschin , Heidelberg: Winter 1984
  • Carmina Leodiensia , reports from the meetings of the Heidelberger Akad. Wiss., Phil.-Hist. Class, 1975
  • Carmina Cantabrigiensia , Heidelberg: Winter 1950
  • Publisher: The Imperial Chronicle , Jena 1926
  • Publisher Die Kaiserchronik , Volume 2 Crescentia: based on the Vorauer text , Heidelberg 1947
  • About the Middle Latinity of the Occident , Heidelberg 1946
  • Hymni Latini antiquissimi LXXV psalmi III , Heidelberg 1956

After the Second World War he worked for the Carl Winter University Press in Heidelberg, which published the Editiones Heidelbergensis series - Heidelberg issues on the intellectual and cultural history of the West .

literature

  • Walter Berschin , Reinhard Düchting (Hrsg.): Latin poetry of the X. and XI. Century. Celebration for Walther Bulst on his 80th birthday . Schneider, Heidelberg 1981
  • Dagmar Drüll (Ed.): Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933-1986 . Springer Verlag 2009
  • Reinhard Düchting: On the 100th birthday of Walther Bulst . In: Reinhard Düchting: Sibi et amicis. Memories, small studies, list of publications . Edited by Jolanta Wiendlocha. Mattes, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-930978-77-6 , pp. 70-72
  • Reinhard Düchting: Walther Bulst and literature . In: Reinhard Düchting: Sibi et amicis. Memories, small studies, list of publications . Edited by Jolanta Wiendlocha. Mattes, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-930978-77-6 , pp. 73-81
  • Viktor Pöschl: Walther Bulst: April 12 , 1899– September 12 , 1986 , in: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 1987 , pp. 93–97

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personal data
SURNAME Bulst, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist for Latin literature of the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1986
Place of death Heidelberg