Wilhelm Friedmann (Romanist)

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Wilhelm Friedmann (born March 19, 1884 in Vienna , † December 11, 1942 in Bedous ) was a German-Austrian Romance studies and literary scholar .

life and work

Friedmann studied from 1903 in Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin. He received his doctorate in Vienna in 1907 on the ancient Italian saints legends of the Codex Flor. XXXVIII 110 in linguistic terms (Halle aS 1908) and completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1910 with the work Introduction to a critical edition of the poems of the troubadour Arnaut de Mareuil . During the war he was taken prisoner by Russia and fled to Vienna. From 1920 to 1929 he was lecturer for Romance Philology in Leipzig, then held a full professorship at the University of Greifswald until 1930 and was associate professor in Leipzig from 1930 to 1933 in his lecturer position . In September 1933 his teaching license was withdrawn and in November he was dismissed in accordance with Section 4 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service , officially because of his pacifist sentiments and close contacts with left-wing French intellectuals, unofficially because of his Jewish descent (he was of Evangelical Lutheran denomination). Friedmann went to Paris in 1933, where he received support and read about Italian philology at the École pratique des hautes études , gave lectures on contemporary French authors, gave lectures for the Free German University and wrote in the émigré newspaper Die Zukunft , most recently in May 1939. On December 10, 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo ; on December 11th he poisoned himself in Bedous, not far from the Spanish border.

Other works

  • French literature in the XX. Century . Leipzig 1914

literature

  • Friedmann, Wilhelm. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 8: Frie – Gers. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-22688-8 , pp. 175-177.
  • Hans Helmut Christmann : Ernst Robert Curtius and the German Romanists , Mainz 1987
  • Hans Helmut Christmann: German Romanists as persecuted by National Socialism. Legacy and Commitment. In: German and Austrian Romanists as persecuted by National Socialism , ed. Hans Helmut Christmann, Frank-Rutger Hausmann in conjunction with Manfred Briegel, Tübingen 1989, pp. 249–262
  • Claudine Delphis: Wilhelm Friedmann. In: Sächsische Lebensbilder , 5. Stuttgart 2003, pp. 133–146
  • Claudine Delphis: The Leipzig relations with France during the Weimar Republic and the role of Wilhelm Friedmann. In: French in Leipzig. Leipzig 2000, pp. 46-50
  • Claudine Delphis: Wilhelm Friedmann (1884–1942), le destin d'un francophile . Leipzig 1999
  • Wilhelm Friedmann , in "Crossing borders. Contributions to modern Romance studies." 12th year 2005, issue 24, specialty issue : Romanists in Exile ISSN  0944-8594

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Friedmann  - Sources and full texts

notes

  1. ↑ especially about his informative correspondence with the French
  2. ↑ The focus of these studies is on the reconstruction of the intellectual and institutional networks that were formed in France, Great Britain and the USA to enable racially persecuted scientists to flee. The contributions by Ruiz (Bordeaux), Steele (Vancouver) and Delphis document and analyze, using archive materials and letters published for the first time, how well-known people, e. B. Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, Friderike Zweig, Gustave Cohen u. a. in letters and petitions tried to enable Friedmann to flee France into exile in the US. It shows how the living conditions of Friedmann and his family were shaped during the years of exile in France in the area of ​​tension between attempted emigration and Romance research on site in the Béarn . The study by Ruiz (in the appendix) documents the results of Friedmann's dialectological and phonological considerations on Bearnesian in the Vallée d'Aspe , where he and his family found refuge from 1940 to 1942.
    1. Alain Ruiz: Wilhelm Friedmann (1884-1942), émigré du IIIe Reich, et sa fin tragique dans les Pyrénées
    2. Wilhelm Friedmann: Maintien ou rétablissement des consonnes sourdes dans les parlers de la vallée d'Aspe
    3. Correspondance
    4. Stephen Steele: Espoirs d'exil: Wilhelm Friedmann dans les archives américaines et les papiers de Gustave Cohen
    5. Claudine Delphis: A propos de l'hommage à Wilhelm Friedmann publié in 1943 dans le journal structure
personal data
SURNAME Friedmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1942
Place of death Bedous