Georg Hüsing (4 June 1869 – 1 September 1930) was an Austrian historian and philologist who specialized in Germanic studies and

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Biography

Georg Hüsing was born in

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, Kingdom of Prussia (now Legnica, Poland) on 4 June 1869. He studied ancient history, Indo-European,

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, Iranian and

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at the universities of Breslau, Berlin and Königsberg. Upon receiving his Ph.D. at Königsberg, Hüsing worked as a private lecturer. In 1912, Hüsing he joined the University of Vienna, first as a lecturer, and then as a professor, where he taught the history of ancient peoples in the

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. At Vienna, Hüsing founded what is known as the Vienna School of Mythology. A prominent member of the German nationalist movement in Austria, Hüsing was the founder of the movement. He was a co-founder of the ''Orientalistischen Literatur-Zeitung'' and the ''Mythologischen Bibliothek''. With Wolfgang Schultz, Hüsing founded ''Mitra. Monatsschrift für vergleichende Mythenforschung'', which edited until 1920.

Selected works

* (1905) ''Semitische Lehnwörter im Elamischen''. Leipzig: Hinrichs. * (1906) ''Beiträge zur Kyros-Sage''. Berlin: Preiser. * (1908) ''Der Zagros und seine Völker. Eine archäologisch-ethnographische Skizze''. Leipzig: Hinrichs. * (1909). ''Die iranische Überlieferung und das arische System''. Leipzig: Hinrichs. * (1911). ''Krsaaspa im Schlangenleibe und andere Nachträge zur Iranischen Überlieferung.'' Leipzig: Hinrichs. * (1916) ''Völkerschichten in Iran''. Wien: Hölder. * (1927) ''Die deutschen Hochgezeiten''. Wien: Eichendorff-Haus. * (1928) ''Germanische Gottheiten''. Wien: Eichendorff-Haus. * (1932) mit Emma Hüsing. ''Deutsche Laiche und Lieder''. Wien: Eichendorff-Haus. * (1934) mit

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. '' Die vierte Märge''. Wien: Gesellschaft Deutsche Bildung. * (1937) mit Heinrich Lessmann. ''Der deutsche Volksmund im Lichte der Sage''. Berlin: Stubenrauch.

Sources

* Olaf Bockhorn: ''Von Ritualen, Mythen und Lebenskreisen. Volkskunde im Umfeld der Universität Wien''. In: Wolfgang Jacobeit, Hannjost Lixfeld (Hg.). ''Völkische Wissenschaft. Gestalten und Tendenzen der deutschen und österreichischen Volkskunde in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts''. Böhlau, Wien 1994, , S. 477–526. * Olaf Bockhorn: ''„Die Angelegenheit Dr. Wolfram, Wien“. Zur Besetzung der Professur für germanisch-deutsche Volkskunde an der Universität Wien''. In: Mitchell Ash, Wolfram Niess, Ramon Pils (Hg.): ''Geisteswissenschaften im Nationalsozialismus. Das Beispiel der Universität Wien''. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, Göttingen 2010, , S. 199–224. *

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: ''Hüsing, Georg''. In: Rolf Wilhelm Brednich (Hg.): '' Enzyklopädie des Märchens''. Band 6: ''Gott und Teufel auf Wanderschaft – Hyltén-Cavallius''. De Gruyter, Berlin 1990, , Sp. 1411–1412. * Falco Pfalzgraf: ''Karl Tekusch als Sprachpfleger. Seine Rolle in Wiener Sprachvereinen des 20. Jahrhunderts'' (= Greifswalder Beiträge zur Linguistik, Bd. 10). Hempen, Bremen 2016. * Peter Rohrbacher: ''Encrypted Astronomy, Astral Mythologies, and Ancient Mexican Studies in Austria, 1910–1945''. In: ''Revista de Antropologia''. Universidade de São Paulo, Jg. 62 (2019), Sonderheft ''German and German-speaking Anthropologists in Brazil'', S. 140–161
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: ''Geschichte der österreichischen Volkskunde''. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Wien 1951. 1869 births 1930 deaths Austrian philologists Germanic studies scholars Iranologists Mythographers People from Legnica Semiticists University of Königsberg alumni Academic staff of the University of Vienna Writers on Germanic paganism German emigrants to Austria-Hungary {{Austria-linguist-stub

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