Wolfgang Keller
Wolfgang Keller (born February 14, 1873 in Freiburg (Breisgau) , † February 16, 1943 in Cologne ) was a German literary scholar and neophilologist .
Life
The son of the classical philologist Otto Keller first studied medicine and natural sciences in Prague, then modern philology. He continued his studies in Berlin and London. In 1898, Keller completed his habilitation at the University of Jena with the continuation of his Freiburg dissertation "Literature and Language in Worcester in the 10th and 11th Centuries" (1895). In the same year he became an associate professor there.
From 1910 to 1937, Keller was a full professor of English studies at the University of Münster , where he was rector in 1932/33 . In the spring of 1933, the National Socialist Hubert Naendrup became his successor because Keller was no longer politically opportune. In or after 1937, however, Wolfgang Keller became a member of the NSDAP .
The majority of his publications were Shakespeare and the Elizabethan period , after he had pursued Old and Middle English palaeographical , linguistic and literary studies at the beginning . From 1898 he was a board member of the German Shakespeare Society , its President from 1939 to 1943, and editor of the Shakespeare Yearbook.
Keller's brother was the legal scholar Siegmund Otto Keller (1870–1943). His sister was the sculptor Clothilde Schaar (1874–1958).
Fonts
- Anglo-Saxon paleography , 1906
literature
- Frank-Rutger Hausmann : English and American Studies in the "Third Reich" , Klostermann 2003
- Ruth von Ledebur: The Myth of German Shakespeare: The German Shakespeare Society between Politics and Science 1918-1945 , Böhlau 2002
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Keller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wolfgang Keller's estate in the University and State Library of Münster
- Gunta Haenicke: Keller, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 427 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann: English and American Studies in the Third Reich. Frankfurt / Main, 2003. ISBN 3-465-03230-6 .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Johannes Herrmann | Rector of the University of Münster 1932–1933 |
Hubert Naendrup |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keller, Ed. Adelbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and new philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg (Breisgau) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1943 |
| Place of death | Cologne |