Will-Erich Peuckert

Will- Erich Peuckert ( born May 11, 1895 in Töppendorf, Circle Goldberg Haynau; † 25 October 1969 in Mill Valley ) was a German folklorist and writer.

Life

Peuckert initially trained to become a primary school teacher and worked as a teacher 1914-1921 in Great Iser in Bad Flinsberg in the Jizera Mountains, a year later, in Breslau. From 1922 to 1927 he studied German history, German, history, folklore and ethnology at the University of Breslau. In the last academic year, he received his doctorate with the dissertation The Development of Abraham by Franck Mountain up to the year 1641. Starting the following year, he was a research associate at the German Institute of the Wroclaw University ( until 1930) and at the same time a lecturer in ethnology at the Pedagogical Academy, until he 1932 for the subject of folklore with the work of twelve sibyls habilitation prophecies.

He then taught as a lecturer in folklore, until 13 May 1935, the teaching license away from him because of " political unreliability ". He had so provided in several articles, such as the Encyclopaedia of German superstition, the alleged ritual murders, which were placed by officials of the Jews to the load in question. Nevertheless, he thought it possible that "a scientifically sound and source-critical research " would allow, " of several proven cases precisely on more ... close. " At the what he called " sources " literature included the works of fanatical anti-Semites such as Édouard Drumont and Julius Streicher. Due to the withdrawal of the authorization to teach, he was forced to endure the next ten years as a private scholar and writer in Haasel in Katzbach Mountains. In July 1942, the continuation publication of reviews was banned after a politically undesirable book review.

In January 1945, he fled with his family in the Upper Palatinate. In 1946 he was appointed the University of Göttingen to the Chair of Folklore, 1959, he became Professor Emeritus.

Works

Literary works

Biographies

  • The life of Jacob Boehme. E. Diederichs, Jena 1924
  • Theophrastus Paracelsus. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin 1941; 2nd revised edition 1943 ibid.; 3 improved and enlarged edition ibid. 1944, which reprints: Olms, Hildesheim / New York in 1976 and 1991, ISBN 3-487-05632-1
  • Nicolaus Copernicus. The left orbit the Earth. P. List, Leipzig 1943
  • Sebastian Franck. A German viewfinder. R. Piper, Munich 1943

Ethnography

  • Silesian word. E. Diederichs, Jena 1924; 2nd edition E. Diederichs, Cologne 1966; Revision E. Diederichs, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-424-00986-5; Paperback edition Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995
  • The legends of the mountain spirit Rubezahl. E. Diederichs, Jena 1926
  • Silesian folklore. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1928; Weidlich, Frankfurt 1978, ISBN 3-8128-0009-8
  • The Rosicrucians. On the history of the Reformation. E. Diederichs, Jena 1928; 2 new revising edition under the title The Rosenkreutz. Pansophy Part 3 E. Schmidt, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-503-00573-0
  • Folklore of the proletariat. I. emergence of proletarian culture. New Frankfurt Verlag, Frankfurt 1931
  • Silesia German fairy tale. East German publishing house, Breslau 1932; Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-487-13314-0
  • Pansophy. An attempt on the history of white and black magic. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1936; 2nd revised and enlarged edition. E. Schmidt, Berlin 1956
  • Silesian. R. Piper, Munich 1937, Volume VII of the series: What is not in the Dictionary; expanded new edition ibid. 1950; Weidlich, Würzburg, 1985, ISBN 3-8035-1257-3
  • German folklore in fairy tales and legend, Schwank and puzzles. W. de Gruyter, Berlin 1938
  • Little German word book. Rütten & Loening, Potsdam 1939
  • Schwarzer Adler under the silver moon. Biography of the landscape Silesia. H. Goverts, Hamburg 1940; New edition under the title: Silesia. Biography of the landscape. Claassen, Hamburg 1950
  • German folk belief of the late Middle Ages. W. Spemann, Stuttgart 1942; Olms, Hildesheim / New York 1978, ISBN 3-487-06638-6
  • The great turning point. The apocalyptic Saeculum and Luther. Intellectual history and folklore. Claassen & Goverts, Hamburg 1948
  • Rebirth. Discussions in lecture halls and on the go. Weidmann, Berlin / Frankfurt 1949
  • With Otto Lauffer: folklore. Sources and Research since 1930. A. Francke, Bern 1951
  • Secret cults. C. Pepper, Heidelberg 1951; W. Heyne, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-09884-6
  • Silesian Children 's and Household Tales. Brentano Verlag, Stuttgart 1953
  • Marriage. Women time, men's, Saeterehe, Hofehe, Free marriage. Claassen, Hamburg 1955
  • Lenore. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1955
  • Astrology. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1960
  • Hidden Lower Saxony. Studies on the Lower Saxon folk tale and the chapbook. O. Schwartz, Göttingen 1960
  • Tell. Birth and answer the mythical world. Introductory volume to the series European legends. E. Schmidt, Berlin 1965
  • Pansophy. Second part. Gabalia. An attempt on the history of magia naturalis in the 16th to 18th centuries. E. Schmidt, Berlin 1967
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