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Walther Rehm
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'''Walther Rehm''' (13 November 1901 – 6 December 1963) was a German literary scholar.
== Life and family ==
Born in [[Erlangen]], Rehm spent a large part of his school time in Strasbourg and in 1919 he took his Abitur at the . Afterwards he studied German language and [[German literature|literature]], history and [[art history]] at the [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]].
In 1923, he received his doctorate with a thesis on the literary [[Renaissance]] image of the 18th and 19th centuries, and since 1929 he had been a private lecturer in the history of modern German literature in Munich. Due to blatantly expressed criticism of the National Socialist ideology and politics, planned appointments to Würzburg, Marburg/Lahn, Göttingen and Strasbourg failed. Entry into the [[NSDAP]] in 1942 as well as into the [[National Socialist Teachers League]] and the [[NS-Volkswohlfahrt]] were forced. However, the denazification process after 1945 proved difficult due to his party membership; he was only fully rehabilitated in 1950.
After a temporary professorship, Rehm was permanent professor of modern German literary history at the [[University of Gießen]] from 1940. From 1943 until his death he taught at the [[Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg]].
His son was the [[musicologist]] [[Wolfgang Rehm]].
Rehm died in [[Freiburg im Breisgau]] at age 63.
== Work ==
During the National Socialist era, Rehm was able to free himself from the national zeitgeist in his scientific work by specifically addressing the inheroic, for example in the works of [[Fyodor Dostoevsky|Dostoevsky]], [[Kierkegaard]] and [[Jean Paul]]. His studies of the afterlife of [[antiquity]] remained particularly influential. (''Greekism and Goethe's time'') as well as on the [[veneration of the dead]] with [[Novalis]], [[Hölderlin]] and [[Rainer Maria Rilke|Rilke]] (''Orpheus. The Poets and the Dead'') Finally, he was also a historical-critical editor. He rendered special services to the edition of the letters from and to [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]].
== Membership in societies and academies ==
* 1944: Member of the [[German Archaeological Institute]]
* 1956: Corresponding member of the [[Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2tBm0Km Walther Rehm] Nachruf von [[Hugo Kuhn]] im Jahrbuch 1964 der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (PDF-Datei).</ref>
* Member of the Winckelmann Society in [[Stendal]]
== Publications ==
* ''Der Todesgedanke in der deutschen Dichtung vom Mittelalter bis zur Romantik''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2SaiIaD ''Der Todesgedanke in der deutschen Dichtung vom Mittelalter bis zur Romantik''] on [[WorldCat]]</ref> (1928)
* ''Der Renaissancekult um 1900 und seine Überwindung''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2S7d5Ke ''Der Dichter und die neue Einsamkeit : Aufsätze zur Literatur um 1900''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1929)
* ''Jacob Burckhardt (Biographie) by Walter Rehm . Verlag Huber Frauenfeld u. Leipzig 1930''
* ''Der Untergang Roms im abendländischen Denken''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2ULq7ir ''Der Untergang Roms im abendländischen Denken : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Geschichtsschreibung und zum Dekadenzproblem''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1930)
* ''Griechentum und Goethezeit''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/39mJemD ''Griechentum und Goethezeit Geschichte e. Glaubens''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1936)
* ''Europäische Romdichtung''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2UzNnQb ''Europäische Romdichtung''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1939)
* ''Experimentum Medietatis''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/31A6QSp ''Experimentum medietatis : Studien zur Geistes- und Literaturgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1947)
* ''Kierkegaard und der Verführer''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2S7yOSc ''Kierkegaard und der Verführer''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1949)
* ''Orpheus. Die Dichter und die Toten''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2So2p8Y ''Orpheus : der Dichter und die Toten : Selbstdeutung und Totenkult bei Novalis - Hölderlin - Rilke''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1950)
* ''Götterstille und Göttertrauer''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/31Ca1sx ''Gotterstille und Gottertrauer : Aufsatze zur deutsch-antiken Begegnung''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1951). Essay collection
* ''Der Dichter und die neue Einsamkeit''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2uiyTJT ''Der Dichter und die neue Einsamkeit : Aufsätze zur Literatur um 1900''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1969)
== Further reading ==
* Inge Auerbach: ''Catalogus professorum academiae Margburgensis''. Second volume: ''1910 bis 1971''. Elwert, Marburg 1979, .
* Hans Peter Herrmann: ''Rehm, Walther.'' In [[Christoph König]] (ed.), in cooperation with Birgit Wägenbaur among others: ''[[Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950]].'' Vol 3: ''R–Z.'' [[de Gruyter]], Berlin/New York 2003, , .
* .
== External links ==
* [https://ift.tt/2Ss9c1x Walther Rehm auf der Webseite der Universität Gießen]
* [https://ift.tt/378SSI7 Nachruf von Hugo Kuhn (PDF-Datei)]
*
== References ==
[[Category:Germanists]]
[[Category:Literary scholars]]
[[Category:University of Giessen faculty]]
[[Category:University of Freiburg faculty]]
[[Category:Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences]]
[[Category:Nazi Party members]]
[[Category:1901 births]]
[[Category:1963 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Erlangen]]
== Life and family ==
Born in [[Erlangen]], Rehm spent a large part of his school time in Strasbourg and in 1919 he took his Abitur at the . Afterwards he studied German language and [[German literature|literature]], history and [[art history]] at the [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]].
In 1923, he received his doctorate with a thesis on the literary [[Renaissance]] image of the 18th and 19th centuries, and since 1929 he had been a private lecturer in the history of modern German literature in Munich. Due to blatantly expressed criticism of the National Socialist ideology and politics, planned appointments to Würzburg, Marburg/Lahn, Göttingen and Strasbourg failed. Entry into the [[NSDAP]] in 1942 as well as into the [[National Socialist Teachers League]] and the [[NS-Volkswohlfahrt]] were forced. However, the denazification process after 1945 proved difficult due to his party membership; he was only fully rehabilitated in 1950.
After a temporary professorship, Rehm was permanent professor of modern German literary history at the [[University of Gießen]] from 1940. From 1943 until his death he taught at the [[Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg]].
His son was the [[musicologist]] [[Wolfgang Rehm]].
Rehm died in [[Freiburg im Breisgau]] at age 63.
== Work ==
During the National Socialist era, Rehm was able to free himself from the national zeitgeist in his scientific work by specifically addressing the inheroic, for example in the works of [[Fyodor Dostoevsky|Dostoevsky]], [[Kierkegaard]] and [[Jean Paul]]. His studies of the afterlife of [[antiquity]] remained particularly influential. (''Greekism and Goethe's time'') as well as on the [[veneration of the dead]] with [[Novalis]], [[Hölderlin]] and [[Rainer Maria Rilke|Rilke]] (''Orpheus. The Poets and the Dead'') Finally, he was also a historical-critical editor. He rendered special services to the edition of the letters from and to [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]].
== Membership in societies and academies ==
* 1944: Member of the [[German Archaeological Institute]]
* 1956: Corresponding member of the [[Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2tBm0Km Walther Rehm] Nachruf von [[Hugo Kuhn]] im Jahrbuch 1964 der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (PDF-Datei).</ref>
* Member of the Winckelmann Society in [[Stendal]]
== Publications ==
* ''Der Todesgedanke in der deutschen Dichtung vom Mittelalter bis zur Romantik''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2SaiIaD ''Der Todesgedanke in der deutschen Dichtung vom Mittelalter bis zur Romantik''] on [[WorldCat]]</ref> (1928)
* ''Der Renaissancekult um 1900 und seine Überwindung''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2S7d5Ke ''Der Dichter und die neue Einsamkeit : Aufsätze zur Literatur um 1900''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1929)
* ''Jacob Burckhardt (Biographie) by Walter Rehm . Verlag Huber Frauenfeld u. Leipzig 1930''
* ''Der Untergang Roms im abendländischen Denken''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2ULq7ir ''Der Untergang Roms im abendländischen Denken : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Geschichtsschreibung und zum Dekadenzproblem''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1930)
* ''Griechentum und Goethezeit''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/39mJemD ''Griechentum und Goethezeit Geschichte e. Glaubens''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1936)
* ''Europäische Romdichtung''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2UzNnQb ''Europäische Romdichtung''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1939)
* ''Experimentum Medietatis''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/31A6QSp ''Experimentum medietatis : Studien zur Geistes- und Literaturgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1947)
* ''Kierkegaard und der Verführer''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2S7yOSc ''Kierkegaard und der Verführer''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1949)
* ''Orpheus. Die Dichter und die Toten''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2So2p8Y ''Orpheus : der Dichter und die Toten : Selbstdeutung und Totenkult bei Novalis - Hölderlin - Rilke''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1950)
* ''Götterstille und Göttertrauer''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/31Ca1sx ''Gotterstille und Gottertrauer : Aufsatze zur deutsch-antiken Begegnung''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1951). Essay collection
* ''Der Dichter und die neue Einsamkeit''.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2uiyTJT ''Der Dichter und die neue Einsamkeit : Aufsätze zur Literatur um 1900''] on WorldCat.</ref> (1969)
== Further reading ==
* Inge Auerbach: ''Catalogus professorum academiae Margburgensis''. Second volume: ''1910 bis 1971''. Elwert, Marburg 1979, .
* Hans Peter Herrmann: ''Rehm, Walther.'' In [[Christoph König]] (ed.), in cooperation with Birgit Wägenbaur among others: ''[[Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950]].'' Vol 3: ''R–Z.'' [[de Gruyter]], Berlin/New York 2003, , .
* .
== External links ==
* [https://ift.tt/2Ss9c1x Walther Rehm auf der Webseite der Universität Gießen]
* [https://ift.tt/378SSI7 Nachruf von Hugo Kuhn (PDF-Datei)]
*
== References ==
[[Category:Germanists]]
[[Category:Literary scholars]]
[[Category:University of Giessen faculty]]
[[Category:University of Freiburg faculty]]
[[Category:Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences]]
[[Category:Nazi Party members]]
[[Category:1901 births]]
[[Category:1963 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Erlangen]]
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