Franz Rolf Schröder

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Franz Rolf Schröder
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Born(1893-09-08)8 September 1893
Kiel, Germany
Died24 March 1979(1979-03-24) (aged 85)
Würzburg, Germany
NationalityGerman
Academic background
Alma mater
Doctoral advisorHugo Gering
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Doctoral studentsNorbert Wagner
Main interests

Franz Rolf Schröder (8 September 1893 – 24 March 1979), often referred to as F. R. Schröder, was a German philologist who was Professor and Chair of German Philology at the University of Würzburg. He specialized in the study German and early Germanic literature, and Germanic and Indo-European religion. He was for many decades editor of the  [de].

Biography[]

Franz Rolf Schröder was born in Kiel, Germany on 8 September 1893. He was the son of Johannes Franz Heinrich Schröder and Minna Amanda Rolfs. His father was a prominent linguist and educator, and editor of the  [de].[1]

Schröder graduated from high school in 1911, and subsequently studied German philology at the University of Kiel. He served as a volunteer in the German Army during the early months of World War I, and gained a PhD at Kiel in 1916 under the supervision of Hugo Gering. His thesis was on the Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar. He completed his habilitation in German and Nordic philology at Heidelberg University in 1920 with a thesis on the Nibelungen. Schröder subsequently lectured at Heidelberg.[1]

In 1925, Schröder was made Professor and Chair of German Philology at the University of Würzburg. He would eventually also succeed his father as editor of the Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift. Schröder specialized in the study of Germanic religion from a comparative perspective, and was particularly interested in its relationship with Indo-European religion.[1]

Schröder retired in 1959, and was made a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1965. He died in Würzburg on 24 March 1979.[1]

Selected works[]

  • Germanentum und Hellenismus. Untersuchungen zur germanischen Religionsgeschichte, 1924
  • Die Parzivalfrage, 1928
  • Altgermanische Kulturprobleme, 1929
  • Die Germanen – Religionsgeschichtliches Lesebuch, 1929
  • Quellenbuch zur germanischen Religionsgeschichte, 1933
  • Germanische Heldendichtung, 1935
  • Untersuchungen zur germanischen und vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte, 1941

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Wagner 2004, pp. 334-336.

Sources[]

  • Wagner, Norbert (2004). "Ranke". In Beck, Heinrich; Geuenich, Dieter; Steuer, Heiko (eds.). Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (in German). 27. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 334–336. ISBN 3110181169.

Further reading[]

  • Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, München u. a. 1996. ISBN 3-598-23160-1
  • Jan de Vries: Forschungsgeschichte der Mythologie. Orbis Verlag, Freiburg/München 1961.
  • Rudolf Simek: Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X.
  • Ernst Klee: „Franz Rolf Schröder“ Eintrag in ders.: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5
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