Wilhelm Seelmann

Seelmann-Eggebert family burial site

Wilhelm Seelmann , actually Wilhelm Emil Seelmann-Eggebert (born January 20, 1849 in Oschersleben , † May 5, 1940 in Berlin ), was a German librarian , philologist and Germanist .

Life

Wilhelm Seelmann [-Eggebert] on January 20, 1849 as the son of Lohgerbermeisters , born Gotthelf Seelmann- Eggebert and his wife Rosina Dorothea Thormeyer, born in Oschersleben and was the older brother of the philologist Emil Paul Seelmann-Eggebert (born January 25, 1859 , † November 30, 1915 ). He attended elementary school in Oschersleben until 1862 and then the grammar school in Quedlinburg . After high school in 1871 Seelmann- Eggebert took until 1874 study of classical and Germanic Philology at the University of Berlin on. In 1875 he received his doctorate from the University of Halle .

From 1874 Wilhelm Seelmann worked as a librarian at the University Library in Berlin and from 1901 as senior librarian at the Prussian State Library . In 1920 he retired. Seelmann found his final resting place in the Berlin cemetery in Zehlendorf (grave location 019-88).

research

In addition to his professional activity, Wilhelm Seelmann devoted himself to researching the Middle and New Low German dialects . He endeavored to use the results obtained for research in the field of German antiquity and comparative literary history . In 1877 Wilhelm Seelmann-Eggebert joined the Association for Low German Language Research and was its chairman from 1909 to 1923 . From 1884 to 1924 the philologist edited the yearbook for Low German language research and published the German University Calendar (1873–1877), the annual reports on the phenomena in the field of Germanic philology (years 1879–1881, 1892–1903), and the years 1905 –1920 for Low German, the years 1879–1881 and 1892–1898 for Dutch and the years 1896–98 for German dialect research. Wilhelm Seelmann-Eggebert founded the series of prints of the Verein für Niederdeutsche Sprachforschung , in which he published numerous older Middle Low German poems and published a seven-volume edition of Fritz Reuter's works with Ernst Brandes and Conrad Borchling from 1905 to 1906 . He also published numerous linguistic works in book form and in magazines and made a great contribution to the Low German language and literature. The philologist and Germanist received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science in 1940 .

Fonts

• Gerhard von Minden , 1878
• Valentin and Namelos, 1884
• Middle Low German Carnival Games , 1885
• Low German rhyming books, 1885
• Northern Thuringia. On the history of the German tribes of Northern Germany and Denmark in antiquity and the Middle Ages , 1887
• The dances of death in the Middle Ages. Investigations together with an overview of literature and monuments, 1893; also in: Low German Yearbook. Volume 17 (1891), pp. 1-80.
• (with Johannes Bolte ): Older Low German Drama, 1895
• The Low German literature of the 19th century. In: Yearbook for Low German Language Research. Volume 22 (1897); ibid. Volume 28 (1902); ibid. Volume 41 (1915)
• Low German results of Germanistic science, 1902
• Reuter research, 1910
• The oldest river names in the Harz . In: Zeitschrift für Ortnameskunde, 1935, p. 11 f.

literature

• Rudolf Eckart : Handbook for the history of the Low German literature. Bremen 1911, p. 414 f.
• Conrad Borchling : For Wilhelm Seelmann-Eggebert's 70th birthday. In: Correspondence sheet for Low German. Volume 37 (1919), pp. 1-7.
• Erich Seelmann-Eggebert : Directory of the writings of Wilhelm Seelmann-Eggebert. In: Yearbook for Low German Language Research. Volume 54 (1929), pp. 136-138.
• Conrad Borchling, Wilhelm Seelmann-Eggebert and the Association for Low German Language Research. In: Yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research. Volume 65/66 (1939/1940), pp. 1-13.
• Alexandra Habermann et al. (Ed.): Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980. 1985, p. 326.

Web links

• Literature about Wilhelm Seelmann in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Wilhelm Seelmann in the state bibliography MV
• Heinz Nowak : Seelmann-Eggebert, Wilhelm Emil on: uni-magdeburg.de