Wilhelm Schwartz

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Wilhelm Schwartz
Wilhelm Schwartz, 1878
Wilhelm Schwartz, 1865

Wilhelm Schwartz (born September 4, 1821 in Berlin ; † May 16, 1899 there ) was a German high school teacher ( classical philologist ), collector of sagas and writer.

Live and act

Wilhelm Schwartz was born as the son of the inspector (director) of the Friedrichs orphanage Rummelsburg in Berlin and attended the Berlinische Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster from 1831 to 1838 . He then studied philology at the University of Berlin and the University of Leipzig until 1843 . With a treatise on mythology , he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . After the senior teacher examination, he worked at the Friedrichwerder Gymnasium in Berlin from 1844 , where he was appointed high school professor in 1862 . In 1864 he changed to the grammar school in Neuruppin as director , in 1872 came to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (Posen) in the same capacity and in 1882 to the new Luisengymnasium Berlin . Shortly before he retired in 1894, Kaiser Wilhelm II gave him the character of a Geh. Government Council .

He was married to Anna Lehnerdt († December 28, 1897).

Folklore

From 1839 to 1849 Schwartz collected the sagas , fairy tales , customs and superstitions of the Mark Brandenburg and Northern Germany on hikes with his brother-in-law Adalbert Kuhn ( memories from my hikes in the years 1837–1849 . In: Archives of Brandenburgia. Volume 1, p. 143ff.) . In his writings he dealt with research into legends. In addition to the older Brandenburg history, he began prehistoric excavations in Neuruppin and continued them in Posen . He donated parts of his collections to the Museum in the Neuruppin High School, the National Museum (Posen) , the Museum of Ethnology , the Folk Costume Museum and the Märkisches Provincial Museum .

Honorary positions

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • De antiquissima Apollinis natura . Dissertation, Berlin 1843
  • with Adalbert Kuhn : North German legends, fairy tales and customs from Meklenburg, Pomerania, the Mark, Saxony, Thuringia, Braunschweig, Hanover, Oldenburg and Westphalia. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1848; Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim [u. a.] 1983, ISBN 3-487-04300-9
  • Today's popular belief and ancient paganism. Nauck, Berlin 1850; 2nd edition W. Hertz , Berlin 1862
  • The ancient Greek snake deities. Nauck, Berlin 1858; New edition: W. Hertz, Berlin 1897
  • The origin of mythology explained in Greek and German sagas. Hertz, Berlin 1860
  • The poetic views of nature of the Greeks, Romans and Germans in their relationship to mythology . 2 volumes, Hertz, Berlin 1864 and 1879
  • Annals of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium zu Neu-Ruppin: Commemorative sheets to the 500th anniversary of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium zu Neu-Ruppin . Neu-Ruppin 1865; Heinrich Begemann added a new edition under the title Annalen des Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium zu Neuruppin . Weidmann, Berlin 1915
  • Popular highlights. In: Journal of the Association for Folklore Volume 1, 1891, pp. 17–36, 220 and 279–292; Volume 2, 1892, p. 245 ff.
  • Guide to German teaching at higher educational institutions . Hertz, Berlin 1866; 24th edition, JG Cotta Nachf., Berlin 1904
  • Auxiliary book for teaching in Brandenburg-Prussian history . Hertz, Berlin 1867; 3rd edition under the title Outline of Brandenburg-Prussian History . Berlin 1884 ( digitized 4th edition 1894 ).
  • Legends and old stories of the Mark Brandenburg. Hertz, Berlin 1871; 8th edition, Märkische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1922
  • Images from Brandenburg-Prussian history . Berlin 1875 (collection of essays from 1863–1871)
  • Materials on the prehistoric cartography of Poznan Province. Posen 1875, with 4 supplements, 1879–81. (Supplement to the program of the Royal Fr. Wilh. Gymnasium in Posen; compilation of the finds and sites)
  • The organism of the grammar schools in its practical form. Berlin 1876
  • The origin of the ancestral and founding saga of Rome under the reflex of Indo-European myths. Jena 1878
  • Prehistoric-anthropological studies. Mythological and cultural history. Hertz, Berlin 1884 (collection of articles)
  • Indo-European popular belief. A contribution to the religious history of primeval times . Seehagen, Berlin 1885
  • Echoes of prehistoric popular belief in Homer . O. Seehagen, Berlin 1894

literature

  • Jan Feustel : On foot in the footsteps of the march ghosts. Wilhelm Schwartz and Adalbert Kuhn. The saga collectors. The Mark Brandenburg. Vol. 31, 1998, pp. 34-37
  • Ernst Friedel : Wilhelm Schwartz † . The bear,. May 27, 1899, p. 331 (with picture)
  • Ernst Friedel: Obituary , in: Brandenburgia. Monthly newspaper of the Society for Local Studies of the Province of Brandenburg in Berlin. 8th year 1899/1900, Berlin 1900, pp. 124–130 (with picture)
  • Richard Wrede, Hans von Reinfels (ed.): The spiritual Berlin . Vol. 1, Berlin 1897
  • Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Leipzig 1871, p. 526
  • Ingrid Bigler: Schwartz, (Friedrich Leberecht) Wilhelm . Wilhelm Kosch (founder): German Literature Lexicon . 3rd edition, Vol. 17, Saur, Bern and Munich, 1997. ISBN 3-907820-20-7 , column 20

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Schwartz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Wilhelm Schwartz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://diegeschichteberlins.de/verein/geschichte/663-ehrenverbindungen-des-vereins.html
personal data
SURNAME Schwartz, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwartz, Friedrich Lebrecht Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, saga collector and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1899
Place of death Berlin