Friedrich Von Der Leyen
Friedrich von der Leyen (19 August 1873 – 6 June 1966) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. Biography Friedrich von der Leyen was born in Bremen, Germany on 19 August 1873, and belonged to the House of Leyen. He was the son of the railroad lawyer Alfred Friedrich von der Leyen (1844–1934) and Luise Isabella Kapp. Luise was the daughter of Friedrich Kapp and sister of Wolfgang Kapp. von der Leyen studied at the universities of University of Marburg, Marburg, University of Leipzig, Leipzig and Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. at Berlin in 1894 under the supervision of Karl Weinhold with a thesis on Medieval German literature. He habilitation, habilitated at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1899 with a thesis on Norse mythology. From 1920 to his retirement in 1937, von der Leyen was Chair of German philology, German Philology at the University of Cologne. Upon his retirement, von der Leyen published his ''Die Gött ...
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