Walter Baetke

Walter Hugo Hermann Baetke ( born March 28, 1884 in Sternberg (Neumark ), † February 15, 1978 in Leipzig ) was a German germanistischer and skandinavistischer medievalist and scholar of religion. He was professor of religious history at the University of Leipzig.

Life

Baetke studied from 1902 to 1907 German, English, pedagogy and philosophy at the universities of Halle / Saale and Berlin and graduated in 1907 with the state exam for teachers at secondary schools from.

He then worked at some schools, before he turned back to the university. He received in 1934 a lectureship in Germanic religious history, and was appointed in 1936 as professor of religious history.

In 1946 Baetke was honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Leipzig. In the same year he was appointed to the Chair of Nordic Philology at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Leipzig. He was from 1948 to 1950 dean of the Faculty of Arts. He particularly excelled in the field of Germanic religious history and has published numerous books on the subject.

In 1926 he joined the DNVP, which he served until 1932. 1934 to the end of the war he was a member of the Nazi organization National Socialist People's Welfare. In 1946 he joined the SED.

Writings

• Dictionary of Old Norse prose literature, Akademie Verlag, 8 unchanged edition, Berlin, 2008. ISBN 978-3-05-004897-0.
• Art and Faith of the Germanic Hanseatic Art Publishers Hamburg, Hamburg 1934.
• The Sacred in Germanic J.C.B. Mohr, Tübingen, 1942.
• From the spirit and heritage of Thule. Essays on the Nordic and German spirit and faith history, Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1944.
• Yngvi and Ynglinger; a source-critical study of the Nordic " Sacral Köningtum ". Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig: Philological and historical class: meeting reports. Berlin: Akademie, 1964.