Wolfgang Mohr (Germanist)

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Wolfgang Mohr (born June 19, 1907 in Cologne ; † November 8, 1991 in Tübingen ) was a German Germanic and Scandinavian Medievalist . He held a chair for older German language and literature at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen.

Life

After graduating from high school , Mohr studied at the Philosophical Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1933 with a dissertation on the subject of Kenning Studies : Contributions to the Style History of Old Germanic Poetry . In 1938 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne with a habilitation thesis on the history of the origins and home of the younger Edda songs from South Germanic material .

In 1942 he was appointed professor for German studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , before he accepted a professorship at the chair for German studies at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in 1957 . After his retirement , Walter Haug took over as professor at this chair in 1973.

During his teaching activities he dealt in particular with German literature of the high Middle Ages and became a specialist in the verse tales Tristan and Isolde , Iwein , Erec , Parzival and Muspilli and their authors, as well as for Walther von der Vogelweide and his strophic poem Ir sult speak willekomen , Wolframs Tagelieder and the Minne plain .

In addition, he was the editor of commented on these works such as twice “Muspilli” (co-author Walter Haug, 1977), Tristan and Isolde by Gottfried von Strasbourg (1979), Parzival (1979) by Wolfram von Eschenbach , Erec (1980) and Iwein (1985) ) by Hartmann von Aue .

Other publications by Wolfgang Mohr include:

  • Belief in fate and heroism. 1935
  • Smaller writings on Germanic heroic sagas and literature of the Middle Ages. 1962. (Co-authors Hermann Schneider and Kurt Herbert Halbach)
  • The 'vrouwe' Walthers von der Vogelweide. In: Journal for German Philology. 86, 1967
  • Wolfram von Eschenbach. Titurel. Songs. Middle High German text and translation. In: Ulrich Müller, Franz Hundsnurscher, Cornelius Sommer (eds.): Göppingen work on German studies. 250, 1978, pp. 76-89.
  • Wolfram von Eschenbach. 1979
  • Collected Essays. 1983. (2 volumes)

Together with Werner Kohlschmidt , he also published the real dictionary of German literary history since 1955 .

In 1972, on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Ulrich Müller and Franz Hundsnurscher published the commemorative publication " Temperted and Mixed" .

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christa Hempel-Küter: German studies between 1925 and 1955: Studies on the world of science using the example of Hans Pyritz. 2000, ISBN 3-05-003472-6 , p. 104.
  2. ↑ Tomas Tomasek: German Medieval Studies. 1999, ISBN 3-8258-2269-9 , p. 121. (Google Books)
  3. ↑ Ulrich Müller Walter. In: Walter Hinderer: History of German poetry from the Middle Ages to the present. 2001, ISBN 3-8260-1999-7 , p. 688.
  4. ^ Publications by Franz Hundsnurscher (University of Münster) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medievalist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1991
Place of death Tübingen