Friedrich von der Leyen

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Friedrich von der Leyen
Prof. Dr. phil. von der Leyen
Born	(1873-08-19)19 August 1873 Bremen, Germany
Died	6 June 1966(1966-06-06) (aged 92) Kirchseeon, Germany
Nationality	German
Spouse	Helene von der Leyen [de]
Academic background
Alma mater	Humboldt University of Berlin
Doctoral advisor	Karl Weinhold
Academic work
Discipline	Germanic philology
Institutions	University of Cologne
Notable students	Kurt Schier Konstantin Reichardt Ernst Alfred Philippson Hermann Schneider
Main interests	German folklore Germanic mythology Medieval German literature Old Norse literature
Notable works	Die Götter der Germanen (1938)

Friedrich Gustav von der Leyen (19 August 1873 – 6 June 1966) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.

Friedrich Gustav 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 and honorary professor Dr. jur. Alfred Friedrich von der Leyen (1844–1934) and his wife Luise Isabella Kapp (1852–1908). Luise was the daughter of Friedrich Kapp and sister of Wolfgang Kapp. Friedrich had four siblings, among them Generalleutnant of the Wehrmacht Ludwig Friedrich von der Leyen (1885–1967).

Von der Leyen studied at the universities of Marburg, Leipzig and Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. at Berlin in 1894 under the supervision of Karl Weinhold with a thesis on Medieval German literature. He 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 at the University of Cologne. Upon his retirement, von der Leyen published his Die Götter der Germanen (1938), which examined gods in Germanic mythology. von der Leyen was a known specialist on German folklore. Together with Eugen Diederichs and Paul Zaunert [de], he founded and edited the Die Märchen der Weltliteratur [de].^{[citation needed]}

Following World War II, von der Leyen returned to the University of Cologne, where he served as an honorary professor from 1947 to 1953. He died in Kirchseeon, Germany on 6 June 1966.

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• Kleine Beiträge zur deutschen Litteraturgeschichte im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert. Niemeyer: Halle/S. 1897.
• Das Märchen in den Göttersagen der Edda. Reimer: Berlin 1899.
• Deutsche Universität und deutsche Zukunft. Betrachtungen. Diederichs: Jena 1906.
• Einführung in das Gotische. Beck: München 1908.
• Das Märchen. Ein Versuch. Quelle & Meyer: Leipzig 1911 (4. Auflage 1958).
• Das Studium der deutschen Philologie. Reinhardt: München 1913.
• Deutsche Dichtung in neuerer Zeit. Diederichs: Jena 1922.
• Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung. Ein Überblick. Bruckmann: München 1926.
• Volkstum und Dichtung. Studien zum Ursprung und zum Leben der Dichtung. Diederichs: Jena 1933.
• Deutsche Dichtung und deutsches Wesen. Schaffstein: Köln 1934.
• Die Götter der Germanen. Beck: München 1938.
• Die deutsche Dichtung und die Weltliteratur. Verlag der Löwe: Köln 1950.
• Deutsche Philologie. Eine Einführung in ihr Studium. Klett: Stuttgart 1952.
• Das Heldenliederbuch Karls des Grossen. Bestand, Gehalt, Wirkung. Beck: München 1954.
• Leben und Freiheit der Hochschule. Erinnerungen. Reykers: Köln 1960.
• Das deutsche Märchen und die Brüder Grimm. Diederichs: Düsseldorf 1964.

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