Jakob Minor (15 April 1855, in

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– 7 October 1912, in Vienna) was an Austrian

literary historian The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment, enlightenment, or instruction to the reader/listener/observer, as well as the development of the literary techniques ...

and

Germanist German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German hi ...

. He studied under Karl Tomaschek and Richard Heinzel at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

, and later furthered his education in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

as a student of

Karl Müllenhoff Karl Viktor Müllenhoff (born September 8, 1818, in Marne, Duchy of Holstein; died February 19, 1884, in Berlin) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. Biography He was born in Marne, Holstein as the second son of merchan ...

and

Wilhelm Scherer Wilhelm Scherer (26 April 18416 August 1886) was a German philologist and historian of literature. He was known as a positivist because he based much of his work on "hypotheses on detailed historical research, and rooted every literary phenomeno ...

. From 1882 he taught classes at the scientific-literary academy in

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, and in 1884 became an associate professor at the University of Prague. In 1885 he succeeded Erich Schmidt at Vienna, where in 1888 he was appointed professor of German language and literature. In 1905 he became a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

Selected works

* ''Christian Felix Weiße und seine Beziehungen zur deutschen Literatur des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts'', 1880 –

Christian Felix Weiße Christian Felix Weiße (1726–1804) was a German writer and pedagogue. Weiße was among the leading representatives of the Enlightenment in Germany and is regarded as the founder of German children's literature. Life Weiße was born as twin on ...

and his relationship to German literature of the 18th century. * ''Studien zur Goethe-Philologie'' (1880; with August Sauer) – Studies of

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treat ...

-philology. * ''Johann Georg Hamann in seiner Bedeutung für die Sturm- und Drangperiode'', 1882 –

Johann Georg Hamann Johann Georg Hamann (; ; 27 August 1730 – 21 June 1788) was a German Lutheran philosopher from Königsberg known as "the Wizard of the North" who was one of the leader figures of post-Kantian philosophy. His work was used by his student J. G. ...

and his importance in the

Sturm und Drang ''Sturm und Drang'' (, ; usually translated as "storm and stress") was a proto- Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s. Within the movement, individual subjectivity and, in particul ...

period. * ''Lessings Jugendfreunde: Chr. Felix Weisse, Joh. Friedr. v. Cronegk, Joach. Wilh. v. Brawe, Friedrich Nicolai'', 1883 –

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (, ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the developmen ...

's friends from youth;

, Johann Friedrich von Cronegk, Joachim Wilhelm von Brawe and

Christoph Friedrich Nicolai Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (18 March 1733 – 11 January 1811) was a German writer and bookseller. Life Nicolai was born in Berlin, where his father, Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai (d. 1752), was the founder of the bookseller ''Nicolaisch ...

. * ''Schiller. Sein Leben und seine Werke'' (2 volumes, 1890) –

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friends ...

, his life and works. * ''Ferdinand von Saar. Eine Studie'', 1898 –

Ferdinand von Saar Ferdinand Ludwig Adam von Saar (30 September 1833 in Vienna, Austria – 24 July 1906 in Döbling) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Together with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Countess Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ( cs, Marie von Ebn ...

; a study. * ''Goethes Faust. Entstehungsgeschichte und Erklärung'' (2 volumes, 1901) – Goethe's ''Faust''; developmental history and explanation. * ''Franz Grillparzers werke'', 1903 –

Franz Grillparzer Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who was considered to be the leading Austrian dramatist of the 19th century. His plays were and are frequently performed at the famous Burgtheater in Vien ...

's works. * ''Novalis Schriften'' (4 volumes, 1907) –

Novalis Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (), was a German polymath who was a writer, philosopher, poet, aristocrat and mystic. He is regarded as an idiosyncratic and influential figure of ...

writings.HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minor, Jakob 1855 births 1912 deaths Charles University faculty University of Vienna alumni Academics of the University of Vienna Germanists Writers from Vienna Austrian literary historians