Hans Ferdinand Massmann ( German: Hans Ferdinand Maßmann ; August 15, 1797 , Berlin - August 3, 1874 , Muskau , Upper Puddle ) is a German philologist and media scholar who occupied the first department of German studies in Munich . One of the activists of the gymnastics movement.
| Hans Ferdinand Massmann | |
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| Hans ferdinand maßmann | |
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| Date of Birth | August 15, 1797 |
| Place of Birth | Berlin |
| Date of death | August 3, 1874 (76 years old) |
| Place of death | Muskau |
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| Scientific field | German studies , Medieval studies |
| Place of work | University of Munich |
| Academic rank | Professor |
| Known as | gymnastics activist |
Biography
Hans Massmann grew up in a watchmaker's family in Berlin, here he began to study theology and classical philology . At the same time, he studied with the famous "father of gymnastics" Friedrich Ludwig Jan. The background of the movement of gymnasts at that time was the idea of raising physical and spiritual forces aimed at fighting Napoleonic France .
After serving in the army, Massmann was sent to Jena , where he continued his training and activist activities. At the Wartburg student festival in 1817, Massmann was seen burning non-German books and anti-national documents, for which he was sentenced to eight-day imprisonment by the university administration. In the period from 1818 to 1819 he was engaged in promoting the ideas of the movement in Breslau (Wroclaw), but due to the so-called “Wroclaw debates” he was forced to move with his opponents to Magdeburg , where he wrote his famous student patriotic song “ Ich hab mich ergeben ”.
After years of agitation and activism, with no material support, in 1821, Massmann stops in Nuremberg , where he works as a teacher. Five years later, he moved to Munich and worked as a sportsman in the cadet corps . In 1929, Massmann defended his doctoral dissertation and was appointed to the new Department of Germanic Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich . The Prussian Ministry invited him to return to work as part of the movement, offering a place in Berlin, but due to personal reasons, Massmann was unable to continue further work.
Memory
Massmann's activity as a sportsman and teacher of German studies is described ambiguously. As a professor of philology, Massmann wrote many works on the history of the German language and German literature , but his contemporaries already noted the stylistic and research flaws of his work.
Heinrich Heine took Massmann as a prototype for the poem “Verkehrte Welt” (translated by Yuri Tynyanov as “The World Overwhelmed” ), where he portrayed him as an excellent gymnast, but the meaning of the poem suggests the opposite, since it presents a distorted world ( Das ist ja die verkehrte Welt, wir gehen auf den Köpfen! ).
Sources
- Scherer V. Maßmann, Hans Ferdinand // Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . - Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1884. - T. 20. - S. 569-571.
- Joachim Burkhard Richter. Hans Ferdinand Maßmann. Altdeutscher Patriotismus im 19. Jahrhundert. - Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 1992.
- Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek: Hans Ferdinand Maßmann (German) . DNB Date of treatment July 15, 2012.