Franz Koch (writer)

Franz Koch ( born March 21, 1888 in Attnang, Upper Austria, † December 29, 1969 in Tübingen ) was a German -Austrian German scholar and literary historian.

Life

Koch studied at the University of Vienna, where he joined the fraternity Upper Austrian Germans joined, philosophy and linguistics. His doctorate in 1912 his habilitation in 1925. Starting in 1925, he was Associate Professor of German Literature History in Vienna.

In the era of National Socialism chef was from 1935 to 1945 as a professor of German literature and intellectual history in Berlin worked. In 1936, he belonged to the Advisory Board of the Research Department of the Jewish question within the Nazi Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany. In 1937 he joined after the recording of the members of the NSDAP lock loosening. In the same year he published the book Goethe and the Jews. From 1939 he was editor of the Handbook of German literature. In 1940 he published in the Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, the book of poetry and faith. In addition, he was the main editor of Modern Literary History at the Office Rosenberg.

From 1946 to 1952 Koch taught at the University of Tübingen.

Cook's best known work is a comprehensive account of the German culture of idealism, which in 1935 appeared in the Handbook of Cultural History (Potsdam: Athenaion ).

In the Soviet Occupation Zone chef writings of Goethe and the Jews (1937) and history of German poetry (1941 ) were placed on the list of proscribed literature. In the German Democratic Republic followed up on this list yet published in the Franz- wedding -Verlag seal and Faith ( 1940).

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