William Kurrelmeyer

William Kurrelmeyer , originally Wilhelm Kurrelmeyer (born January 17, 1874 in Osnabrück , † October 9, 1957 in Baltimore ) was an American German scholar of German origin.

Life

In the US since 1882 , Kurrelmeyer received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1900 . After teaching for a year at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster (Pennsylvania) , he returned to Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University to teach German language and literature until his retirement in 1944.

His son Bernhard (* 1903) became a physicist, his daughter Carrie May Kurrelmeyer Zintl (1904–1992) taught classical philology at Hopkins and Loyola College. In his memory, she donated the William Kurrelmeyer curatorial position as well as an eponymous professorship for German studies at the Johns Hopkins University.

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Kurrelmeyer's research interests initially focused on the history of German Bible translations before Luther. As a result of his many years of research in this field, for which he traveled to Germany every year in the summer months, his monumental 10-volume edition of the Mentelin Bible was published between 1904 and 1915 , in the apparatus of which he recorded all the variants of the thirteen subsequent editions.

He dealt extensively with Christoph Martin Wieland . His findings on the so-called double prints , unauthorized pirated prints by Wieland, but also by Goethe and Schiller, and their effects on the text transmission of these authors, which he published from 1910, were groundbreaking . His research led to the invitation of the Prussian Academy of Sciences to work on its project of the complete edition of Wieland's works.

Kurrelmeyer acquired an extensive library of almost 25,000 volumes and 1,640 manuscripts (mainly letters from the 19th century, but also, for example, designs by Otto Ludwig ), which was donated to the library of the Johns Hopkins University after his death.

Works

• The historical development of the types of the first person plural imperative in German . KJ Trübner, Strasbourg 1900 (dissertation), archive.org .
• Double prints of Schiller's Maiden of Orleans . In: Modern Language Notes 25, 1910, pp. 97-102 ( jstor.org ) and 131-137 ( www.jstor.org ).
• The double prints of Goethe's works, 1806–1808 . In: Modern Language Notes 26 (5), 1911, pp. 133-137, jstor.org .
• The double prints in their significance for the text history of Wieland's works. (= Treatises of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, 1913, Phil.hist. Class No. 7), archive.org .

editor

• The first German Bible. 10 volumes. (= Library of the literary association in Stuttgart, vol. 234, 238, 243, 246, 249, 251, 254, 258, 259 and 266). Laupp, Tübingen 1904–1915
• Wieland's Collected Writings . Edited by the Dt. Commission d. Kgl. Preuss. Academy d. Sciences. Weidmann, Berlin 1909ff. - Kurrelmeyer edited a. a .:
  • Dept. 1. Works, Vol. 14. Prosaic Writings (1928, reprint 1987)
  • Dept. 1. Works, Vol. 15. Prosaic Writings (1930, reprint 1987)
  • Dept. 1. Works, Vol. 1.9. The golden mirror, Singspiele u. small seals 1772–75 (1931, reprint 1987)
  • Dept. 1. Works, Vol. 11. Reports d. Ed. To the 1st to 10th volume, issue 1st report a. Index to Volume 9 (1932, reprint 1986)
  • Dept. 1. Works, Vol. 12. Seals 1. 1775–1779 (1935, reprint 1986)
  • Dept. 1. Works, Vol. 13. Seals 2. 1780–1812 (1935, reprint 1986)
  • Dept. 1. Works, Vol. 1.6. Agathon (1937, reprint 1986)
  • Dept. 1. Works, Vol. 1.8. Part 2. Reports d. Published on 6.-8. Volume, Issue 1. Report a. Index to volume 6 (1937, reprint 1986)
  • Dept. 1. Works, Vol. 21. Small writings (1939, reprint 1987)
  • Dept. 1. Works, Vol. 22. Small writings (1954)

literature

• Bibliography in: Modern Language Notes . Volume 68, 1953, pp. 291-299
• Catalog of the manuscripts of the Kurrelmeyer collection in: Yearbook of the German Schiller Society . Volume 11, 1967, pp. 614-630
• William H. McClain: In Memoriam, William Kurrelmeyer . In: German Quarterly . Volume 31.1 (Jan. 1958), p. 66
• William H. McClain: The Gerstäcker letters in the Kurrelmeyer collection . In: Modern Language Notes . German edition, Volume 82.4 (October 1967), pp. 428-434
• Lieselotte E. Kurth-Voigt and William H. McClain: Three Unpublished August Wilhelm Schlegel Letters in the Kurrelmeyer Collection . In: Modern Language Notes . German edition, Volume 101.3 (April 1986), pp. 592-608

Web links

Commons : Books by William Kurrelmeyer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about William Kurrelmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• The Kurrelmeyer Collection in the Johns Hopkins University Library