Hans Naumann (May 13, 1886 – September 25, 1951) was a German

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

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philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined ...

) and

folklorist Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ...

('' Germanist''). Naumann was the first historian to describe the Ottonian period as a medieval renaissance. Naumann was born in

Görlitz Görlitz (; pl, Zgorzelec, hsb, Zhorjelc, cz, Zhořelec, East Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', ''Gerltsch'') is a town in the German state of Saxony. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River, and is the largest town in Upper Lus ...

and died in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

. Being a member of the

Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported t ...

, Naumann was a strong proponent of the

book burning Book burning is the deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context. The burning of books represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or politi ...

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Literary works

* ''Grundzüge der deutschen Volkskunde'', 1922 * ''Deutsche Dichtung der Gegenwart'', 1923 * ''Germanischer Schicksalsglaube'', 1934

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* 1886 births 1951 deaths People from Görlitz People from the Province of Silesia Nazi Party members German philologists Germanists Germanic studies scholars German folklorists Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni University of Kiel alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Strasbourg alumni Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt Academic staff of the University of Bonn German male non-fiction writers 20th-century philologists {{nonfiction-writer-stub, Naumann Hans