Wilhelm Kosch
Wilhelm Franz Josef Kosch (born October 2, 1879 in Drahan in Moravia , † December 20, 1960 in Vienna ) was an Austrian literary and theater historian and lexicographer . The German Literature Lexicon , which he founded and later renewed several times, became known internationally , usually just called Kosch for short .
Life
Wilhelm Kosch, a son of Joseph Kosch (1850–1940), councilor at the Moravian Lieutenancy in Brno and his wife Maria Lostiak (1855–1904), from Prossnitz, studied law in Vienna, then German, history and art history in Wroclaw and with August Sauer in Prague, where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1903 with the dissertation “Adalbert Stifter and Romanticism”.
In 1905 he became associate professor for German literary history in Freiburg im Üechtland , and in 1911 in Czernowitz in Bukowina . After 1918 (end of the First World War and the fall of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy ) he had to leave Czernowitz and initially went to the Montan University Leoben as a visiting professor .
From 1923 until his retirement in 1950 he was a full professor for German literary and theater history at the University of Nijmegen .
Afterwards he lived in Vienna and devoted himself to his projects in lexicon studies . He became the founder of the Adalbert Stifter Archive, the German Eichendorff Association and its magazine “Der Wächter”, was the editor of the series “German Sources and Studies” and, since 1908, a critical Eichendorff complete edition.
Kosch had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Nibelungia Brno since 1899. In 1925 he was a founding member of the KDB Suevia at the Waldhof zu Graz (from 1926 in the Ring of Katholischer Deutscher Burschenschaften (RKDB)) and band philistine of other RKDB connections.
Fonts
- A. Founder. Festschrift 1905
- Martin Greif in his works, 1907
- The Germans in Austria and their compromise with the Czechs, 1909
- People and books. Essays 1912
- Melchior Diepenbruck, 1913
- German theater and drama (in the 19th century) since Schiller's death . Vier Quellen Verlag, Leipzig (1913)
- M. Sailer, 1914
- Martin von Cochem, 1915
- Field Marshal Graf Radetzky, 1915
- J. von Eichendorff, 1923
- Catholic Germany (A – S), 1933 ff., (1938)
- Luise von Eichendorff in her letters to Adalbert Stifter . "Der Wächter" Verlag, Nymwegen 1940 and 1948.
editor
- German Literature Lexicon . Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch I (1949) - 4 (1958); 2nd edition 1947-1958; 3rd edition 1966 ff.
- Catholic Germany (A - Schlueter), 1933–1938
- State Biographical Handbook 1-2, 1963
- German Theater Lexicon (A - Rostok), 1953–1966; Revised by Ingrid Bigler-Marschall , 2013 ff.
literature
- Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Edited on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum . Vol. II, Oldenbourg, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , p. 257 f. with further references.
- Supplement to Vol. I, Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries, 1979, ISBN 3-48649491-0 , bibliography and data supplements, there: Kosch, Wilhelm .
- Franz Menges : Kosch, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 606-608 ( digitized version ).
- Jaksch: Bohemia October 4, 1929.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Kosch in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritz Aldefeld: total directory of RKDB Neuss 1931, p?.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kosch, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kosch, Wilhelm Franz Josef (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drahan |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1960 |
| Place of death | Vienna |