Werner Schröder (philologist)

Werner Schröder (born March 13, 1914 in Vaethen / Tangerhütte , † July 11, 2010 in Marburg ) was a German philologist and Germanic Medievalist .

After studying history, German and English philology and philosophy at the University of Halle , he received his doctorate in 1938 under Hans Herzfeld on British pre-war politics in the prehistory and course of the Balkan crisis in 1912 . He then completed his habilitation with Georg Baesecke with a thesis on Old High German gloss research; Due to the war, however, there was an interruption of several years in the habilitation process. During the Second World War, Schröder was drafted into the Wehrmacht and eventually became a prisoner of war in Yugoslavia. From 1948 to 1953 Schröder worked as an archivist at the state main archive of Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg, then he was awarded the Venia Legendi as a lecturer in German philology. In 1959 he used a call to the University of Marburg to leave the GDR. In Marburg he took over the chair from Ludwig Wolff . He turned down calls at other universities in the following years (Göttingen 1964, Graz 1969), and in 1982 he retired. Schröder was a member of several scientific societies, including the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the Scientific Society at the University of Frankfurt / Main. In teaching and research, he dealt a lot with the classical works of Middle High German epic, especially with Wolfram von Eschenbach , as well as with questions of edition philosophy .

Kurt Gärtner writes about Schröder's scientific work : "In his research in Halle he was still working on modern linguistics, Gothic and Old High German, in Marburg Middle High German became his central field of work. Initially, it was spiritual poetry of the 12th century , then more and more the classical music around 1200 with the Nibelungenlied and the works of the great German poets of the Middle Ages, Heinrichs von Veldeke, Hartmanns von Aue, Gottfrieds von Strasbourg and above all Wolframs von Eschenbach, to whom he devoted fundamental studies. Not only the Willehalm- Edition, but other central editions, including one of the 'Ackermanns von Böhmen' by Johannes von Saaz appeared in rapid succession. Fundamental questions of the transmission and edition of medieval texts have occupied him increasingly in recent years. His work has been published since the 1980s Years mostly in the treatises of May nzer Academy and the Frankfurt Scientific Society, of which he was a full member. As chairman of the Academy Commission for German Philology, he played a key role in the Academy's Germanistic projects, including the Marburg Büchner edition and the Valentin Weigel edition. The prestige project of Old German Studies, the large new Middle High German dictionary, which has been developed since 2000 at a job at the Göttingen Academy and at a job at the Mainz Academy at the University of Trier, owes the decisive initiative to his persistent commitment and work. "

literature

• Detlef Goller: Schröder, Werner. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 3: R-Z. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1665-1667.
• Lydia Tschakert: Directory of the writings of Werner Schröder. In: Ernst-Joachim Schmidt (ed.): Critical preservation. Contributions to German philology. Festschrift for Werner Schröder on his 60th birthday. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 1974, pp. 494–508.
• Lydia Tschakert: Directory of the writings of Werner Schröder [2] (1974–1987). In: Kurt Gärtner / Joachim Heinzle (eds.): Studies on Wolfram von Eschenbach. Festschrift for Werner Schröder on his 75th birthday. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag 1989, pp. 569-580.
• Lydia Tschakert: Directory of the writings of Werner Schröder [3] (1988–1999). In: Kurt Gärtner / Hans-Henrik Krummacher (eds.): On the transmission, criticism and edition of old and newer texts. Stuttgart 2000, pp. 295-305.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See for example Werner Schröder (Ed.): Wolfram-Studien, II. Berlin 1974. The names in 'Parzival' and 'Titurel' Wolframs von Eschenbach. Berlin / New York 1982.
2. ↑ Kurt Gärtner: Professor Dr. Werner Schröder passed away . Univ. Marburg, Department of German Studies 2010. (Online)