Helmut de Boor

Helmut de Boor ( born March 24, 1891 in Bonn, † August 4, 1976 in Berlin) was a German medievalist germanistischer.

Life

Helmut de Boor was the third child of Byzantinists Carl Gotthard de Boor with his wife Manon, nee Meyer. He was born in Bonn, but went to the Grammar School in Wroclaw. He studied German in Freiburg, Marburg and Leipzig, followed by a doctorate (1917 ) and Habilitation ( 1919) joining. After a brief teaching career in Breslau, he was from 1919 to 1922 Lecturer in German at the University of Gothenburg. In 1922 he moved to Greifswald, where he was appointed professor in 1925. In 1926 he moved to Leipzig.

From 1930 to 1945 he was a professor of German language and literature at the University of Bern. In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP. After the end of World War II, he worked first at the University of Marburg from 1949 to 1959 as a professor at the Free University of Berlin.

Since 1963 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

De Boor was married to Ellen Anna Rigberta, a widowed daughter of Theodor screen since 1920.

Works

• The Faroese songs of the Nibelungen cycle. PhD thesis University of Leipzig in 1917
• The Faroese Dvörgamoylieder. Habilitation thesis University of Breslau in 1919
• Swedish literature, Wroclaw 1924
• Attila image in history, legend and heroic poetry, Bern 1932
• History of German Literature, 3 vols. Munich 1949-1962