Werner Welzig

Werner Welzig (born August 13, 1935 in Vienna ; † February 26, 2018 in Brunn am Gebirge , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian author, university professor at the University of Vienna , Germanist and president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Life

Welzig completed a degree in German and history at the universities of Vienna and Paris. In 1958 the doctorate to Dr. phil. and in 1963 the habilitation for modern German literary history. In 1968 he was appointed full professor at the University of Vienna . From 1973 to 1974 he was dean of the philosophical faculty of this university. In 1973 he was elected a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, of which he was general secretary from 1983 to 1991 and of which he was president from 1991 to 2003. Welzig was also a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz .

The Werner Welzig Prize was founded in 2003 to honor Werner Welzig's presidency. It is awarded to employees of the Austrian Academy of Sciences who "contribute in a special way to internal cohesion and / or to the public reputation of the Austrian Academy of Sciences".

Awards

• 2002: Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna
• 2003: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria

Publications

• Exemplary figures. Gate, adventurer and hermit to Grimmelshausen . Publishing house Hermann Böhlaus successor, Graz u. Cologne 1963. 187 pp.
• The German novel of the 20th century. Stuttgart 1967, 406 pp. (EA); 2nd ext. Edition 1970, 428 pp.
• Lamentations in Vienna: Abraham a Sancta Clara's description of the plague of 1679 , publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 1979. (Activity report of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; 1978/9, No. 2)
• The type of German ballad anthology. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1977. (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports, 313rd volume)
• Elements of autobiographical narrative: to Grillparzers a. Kafka's writing for e. Akad. , Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 1987.
• Werner Welzig words. 28 speeches and 30 registers , ed. Hanno Biber, Irma Boom and Evelyn Breiteneder, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 2016.

Published works

• Erasmus of Rotterdam : Enchiridion - Handbook of a Christian warrior. Transferred and ed. v. Werner Welzig. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Graz 1961. 126 pp.
• From angles and world , Siegfried Freiberg, eingel. u. selected by Werner Welzig, Graz; Vienna; Cologne: Stiasny, 1966.
• The image of the partner in Grillparzer's dramas. Studies to understand their artistic linguistic design. Edited by Norbert Griesmayer, Herbert Seidler u. Werner Welzig. Verlag, Wilhelm Braumüller University Publishing House, Vienna a. Stuttgart 1972. 334 pp.
• Erasmus of Rotterdam: Selected Writings. Edition in 8 volumes. Latin / German . Edited by Werner Welzig. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1968–1980 (EA).
• Sermon and Social Reality: Contributions to Researching the Sermon Literature. Edited by Werner Welzig. Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam 1981. 193 pp. (= Daphnis 10, No. 1, 1981)
• Abraham a Sancta Clara : Mercks Wienn. That is: Deß angry Todts an extensive description in the famous Haubt and Kayserl. Residency instead of Austria, in the sixteen hundred and nine and seventieth years; with the addition of so well-to-know as the relevant teaching. Carried together in the middle of the place and time concerned. Reprint of the Vienna 1680 edition. Edited with the collaboration of Franz M. Eybl. u. with e. Epilogue v. Werner Welzig. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1983. 437 pages (= German reprints. Barock series)
• Catalog of printed German-language Catholic sermon collections. 2 vols. Vol. 1: Michael Helding 'From the Hailiest Mass' (1557) to Ignaz Anton Franz Xaver Sailer 'Sermons for the Improvement of the Human Heart and Morals' (1770). Vol. 2: Ignaz Wurz 'Instructions for spiritual eloquence' (1770) to Ernest Kronenberger 'The holy mission in my parish' (1848). Edited by Werner Welzig. With the participation of Franz M. Eybl, Heinrich Kabas, Robert Pichl u. Roswitha Woytek. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1984 a. 1987. 683 u. 920 pp.
• Eulogy. Catalog of German-language sermons of saints in individual prints - from the holdings of the Klosterneuburg Abbey Library. Based on the preliminary work by Maria Kastl with the participation of Heinrich Kabas and Roswitha Woytek. Ed. U. with e. Afterword for amplification in the baroque sermon of saints provided v. Werner Welzig. Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1989. 802 pp. (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Meeting reports, 518th volume)
• Adalbert Stifter : The little things are screaming. 59 letters. Selected u. ed. v. Werner Welzig. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / Main u. Leipzig 1991. 231 pp.
• Sermons from the Baroque era: texts and commentary in collaboration with Heinrich Kabas and Roswitha Woytek, ed. and through testimonies to preaching in German literature from the 18th to the 20th century, supplemented by Werner Welzig, Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 1995.
• Dictionary of idioms for the magazine Die Fackel published by Karl Kraus from 1899 to 1936 . Text dictionary. With 144 articles. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1999. 1051 pp.
• Arthur Schnitzler : Diary 1879–1931. 10 volumes plus general index and Booklet. Edited by Werner Welzig. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1981–2000.
• Connection: March / April 1938 in Austria , ed. by Werner Welzig. Among employees by Hanno Biber and Claudia Resch, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 2010.

Scientific articles (selection)

• Constantia and baroque persistence . In: German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history (Vol. 35, No. 3, 7.1961: 416–432)

Audio documents

• Where do we want to go? , Address by the President at the solemn meeting of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on May 14, 2003, 1 CD, Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 2003.

reception

• Robert Menasse : The full professor Werner Welzig. In: Wasp's Nest . No. 31 September 1978. pp. 27-33.
• Walter Schübler : The President's new clothes . Werner Welzig's "Dictionaries of the 'Torch'". In: Wasp's Nest . No. 117 December 1999.
• Written parliamentary questions and responses to questions about the "digital torch" and Werner Welzig's controversial "torch" dictionary .
• Dietmar Krug : Lexicon of incomprehensibility. To the "torch" dictionary: Ex-employee complains about missed opportunity. In: The Standard . December 1, 1999.

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Welzig in the catalog of the German National Library
• "... but what is the television studio?" ( Memento from March 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), DerStandard from March 17, 2000

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former Academy President Werner Welzig died at the age of 82
2. ↑ Member entry by Werner Welzig  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on November 6, 2017  
3. ↑ stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/preise/auslösungen-der-sumakademie/werner-welzig-preis/ (accessed on December 21, 2017)
4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)