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 or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pie ...

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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 strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

) and

folklorist Folklore studies (also known as folkloristics, tradition studies or folk life studies in the UK) is the academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the ac ...

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Germanist German studies is an academic field that researches, documents and disseminates German language, German literature, literature, and culture in its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies therefore often focus on Culture ...

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

Görlitz Görlitz (; ; ; ; ; Lusatian dialects, East Lusatian: , , ) is a town in the Germany, German state of Saxony. It is on the river Lusatian Neisse and is the largest town in Upper Lusatia, the second-largest town in the region of Lusatia after ...

and died in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

. Being a member of the

Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor ...

, 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 politic ...

.Zitat bei Ernst Klee: ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich'', Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, S. 429. Siehe Hans Naumann, Eugen Lüthgen: ''Kampf wider den undeutschen Geist. Reden, gehalten bei der von der Bonner Studentenschaft veranstalteten Kundgebung wider den undeutschen Geist auf dem Marktplatz zu Bonn am 10. Mai 1933'' (= ''Bonner akademische Reden'' Heft 17). Bonner Universitäts-Buchdruckerei, Bonn 1933
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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 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 German philologists {{nonfiction-writer-stub, Naumann Hans