Wilhelm Böhm (Germanist)

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Wilhelm Böhm (born December 24, 1877 in Berlin , † March 11, 1957 in Hanover ) was a German German studies scholar and university professor.

Life

He was the son of the Hanover school principal Friedrich Böhm and his wife Marie, née Schröter. After attending the Humboldt Gymnasium in Berlin, he studied history, philology and philosophy in Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1902 under Erich Schmidt with a dissertation on the subject of the fragments of Hölderlin's Empedocles. From 1906 to 1924 he was a teacher in the higher education service, at times also director of a lyceum in Berlin. Then he lived in Berlin as a private scholar. From 1930 he was honorary professor for German language and literature at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . He was also a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association . He taught until 1955 a. a. also philosophy and cultural philosophy. Estate materials for the Hölderlin edition can be found in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart

Works

  • Studies on Hölderlin's Empedocles . Wagner, Weimar 1902.
  • Holderlin . 2 volumes. Niemeyer, Halle 1928–1930.
  • Faust the non-fist . Niemeyer, Halle 1933. (New edition 1949 by Verlag Seemann, Cologne, under the title Goethe's Faust in a New Interpretation. A Commentary for Our Time.)
  • About the possibility of a systematic cultural philosophy . Niemeyer, Halle 1927.
  • The actor's soul . Seemann, Leipzig 1941
  • Friedrich Holderlin . On the 100th anniversary of the poet's death on June 7, 1943. Gronau, Jena 1943.
  • Leibniz in Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1947.

Editing

  • (With Paul Ernst ): Friedrich Hölderlin's collected works . 3 volumes. Diederichs, Jena and Leipzig 1905.
  • Friedrich Hölderlin: Selected letters . Diederichs, Jena 1910.
  • Hölderlin and Switzerland . Poems and letters by Hölderlin from the judicial circles of the Swiss. Huber, Frauenfeld 1935.

literature

  • Alfred Kelletat: Wilhelm Böhm 1877–1957 . In: Hölderlin-Jahrbuch 11 (1958/60), pages 112–215.
  • Hans Looff: Nekrolog. Kant studies , Volume 50, Issue 1–4, page 129. ( digitized version )
  • König, Christoph and Birgit Wägenbaur (eds.): Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . De Gruyter, Berlin 2003, pp. 219-220.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ König, Christoph and Birgit Wägenbaur (eds.): Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950. De Gruyter, Berlin 2003, p. 220.
personal data
SURNAME Boehm, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1957
Place of death Hanover