GB 0367 KHB - Breul, Karl Hermann (1860-1932)

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GB 0367 KHB 1885-1918 Collection (Fonds) 10 boxes Breul , Karl Hermann , 1860-1932 , Professor of German, University of Cambridge

Karl Hermann Breul was born in Hannover, 1860 and educated at Lyceum II Gymnasium, where the headmaster, W Weidasch was a Schiller scholar who believed in the compulsory teaching of foreign languages. Accordingly Breul was obliged to study Greek, Latin, French and English, and volunteered to take classes in Hebrew. His principal tutor was Adolf Ley, former French and German tutor to Lord Kitchener.

In 1878 Breul left school to enter Tübingen University. He continued to study during his military service, working on South German dialects, particularly Swabian. At Tübingen he attended the lectures of Christoph Sigwart (1830-1904) and Karl Reinhold von Köstlin (1819-1894) in philosophy and literature. In 1879 he left Tübingen for Strassbourg and spent a semester studying English and French philology under Ten Brink, Boehmer and Eduard Koshwitz (1851-1904). In the winter of that year he left for Berlin and the Friedrich Wilhelm Universität, where he remained until taking his doctorate in 1883, with a thesis on an Old English epic Sir Gowther', and a lengthy treatise on comparative literature connected with the legend ofRobert le Diable'. His tutors at Berlin included Julius Zupitza (1844-1895), Adolf Tobler (1835-1920), Karl Müllenhoff (1818-1884) and Wilhelm Scherer.

In 1884, after briefly teaching in German secondary schools, Breul left Berlin for Paris to further his studies of French and romance languages and literatures. He studied under Gaston Bruno Paulin Paris (1839-1903) and Paul Meyer (1840-1917). During this time he translated Tobler's book on French versification into French, with the assistance of his friend, Léopold Sudre (b 1855).

In 1884 Breul was appointed the first lecturer in Germanic language and literature at Cambridge University, five years later he was appointed a Reader. In 1886 he was elected a Fellow of King's College and in 1896 he was awarded a Litt.D. In 1897 he was one of the co-founders of the `Modern Language Quarterly'. In 1902 he was offered a Professorship at the University of London, but refused it. In 1910 he was appointed the first Schröder Professor of German at Cambridge. He was President of the English Goethe Society, and represented it at the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Wiener Goethe-Verein in 1928.

Breul's research and publications reflect the broad base of his education and interests. However, over and above that, Breul sought to promote the higher study of German philology and literature in the United Kingdom, and to develop and strengthen the knowledge and understanding of each other's language and culture between Germany and Britain. He founded the Honours School in German at Cambridge, and was largely instrumental in re-shaping the study of German in other British universities. Many of the best modern language teaching posts in Britain were held by Breul's former students. He wrote and lectures on the training and qualification of modern language teachers, which he regarded as a high priority for British secondary schools.

Publications: (Trans. with L Sudre) A Tobler Le Vers français ancien et moderne (1885); Sir Gowther. Ein Englische Romanze aus dem XV Jahrhunert (1886); A Handy Bibiographical Guide to the Study of German Language and Literature for the Use of Students and Teachers of German (1895); Die Originisation des höhren Schuhlwesens in Grossbritannien (1897); The Teaching of Modern Foreign Languages in Secondary Schools (1898); Betrachtungen und Vorschläbetreffend die Gründung eines Reichsinstituts für Lehrer des Englischen in London (1900); Cassell's New German Dictionary, (2nd ed, 1906); (Trans) Deutschland im XIX Jahrhundert (1913); Students' Life and Work in the University of Cambridge [1908]; numerous articles in European and America learned journals. He also edited seven volumes in the Cambridge University Pitt Press series: Lessing and Gellert: Fabeln und Erzählungen (1887); Benedix: Dr Wespe (1888); Hauff: Das Bild des Kaisers (1889); Schiller: Wilhelm Tell (1890); Schiller: Geschichte des dreissigjähren Buch III (1892); Schiller: Wallenstein (1894, 1896), Goethe: Iphigenie auf Tauris (1899) and Die Braut von Messina, oder, Die feindlichen Brüder: ein Trauerspiel mit Chören / Schiller (1913).

Source of acquisition by IGS not known

Correspondence and papers of Professor Karl Hermann Breul, 1885-1918, comprising:
General correspondence with academic friends and colleagues, students, benefactors, and publishers, correspondents include Hermann Hager, 1886-1893; Robert Priebsch, 1896-1913; Arthur Napier, 1888; Patrick Cahill, 1906-1907; W I McGowan 1902-1907; F C Nicholson, 1902-1913; Thomas Rea, 1904-1911; E L Milner-Barry, 1907-1911; Marshall Montgomery, 1910-1914; Walter Rippmann, 1906-1914; F E Sandbach, 1903-1911; Max Freund, 1909-1914; Charles Harold Herford, 1903-1913; Arvid Johansson, 1905-1913; J Kirkpatrick, 1906-1912; A C Benson 1904-1914; Oscar Browning, 1884-1907; Francis Darwin, 1899-1918; Sir James Frazer, 1912-1914; John Gibb, 1904-1906; A E Housman, 1911; Henry Jackson, 1890-1910; R C Jebb, 1894-1904; C S Kenny, 1907-1914; J B Mullinger, 1913-1914; J P Postgate 1892-1910; E S Roberts 1889-1913; W W Skeat, 1890-1907; Sir Adolphus William Ward, 1905-1912; Eugen Frisch, 1903; Wilhelm Viëtor, 1893-1903; Carl Dunker, 1908; Henry and Agnes Tiarks, 1909-1911; W T Stead, 1906; Theodor Lorens, 1905-1910, and Edward Bell, 1904-1913;
Correspondence on address for Professor C A Buchheim, 1897-1898;
Correspondence on 25th anniversary of the Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos at Cambridge, 1909;
Correspondence with the English Goethe Society, 1897-1910;
Correspondence with the Modern Language Association, 1897-1910, but mainly relating to meeting in Cambridge, 1910;

Personal Papers comprise:
Letters of congratulation on award of Prussian Order of the Red Eagle (4th Class), 1909;
Testimonials for posts of Professorship at Prague University, 1888, Examiner in the University of London, 1892, Professorship at Bedford College London, 1896, Professorship at University College London, 1897, Professorship in London University, 1902, and post of Examiner in German, Glasgow University, 1903;
Correspondence and papers on appointment as Schröder Professor of German at Cambridge, 1909-1910, including letters of congratulation and press cuttings;
Photograph of Karl Breul, 1885.

Papers divided into two broad classes, General Correspondence and Personal Papers

Researchers should apply to consult material at least forty-eight hours in advance by letter, facsimile, e-mail or telephone. The Library staff need a name and contact number, a concise and clear idea of the nature of the enquiry and a date and time for consultation.

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Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000 and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997. May 2002 Barry , E L Milner , fl 1907-1911 , German scholar Benson , Arthur Christopher , 1862-1925 , writer Breul , Karl Hermann , 1860-1932 , Professor of German, University of Cambridge Browning , Oscar , 1837-1923 , educationist, historian and mountaineer Buchheim , Carl Adolf , 1828-1900 , German scholar Darwin , Sir , Francis , 1848-1925 , Knight , botanist English Goethe Society European literature Frazer , Sir , James George , 1854-1941 , Knight , anthropologist German Germanic languages German literature Herford , Charles Harold , 1853-1931 , Professor of English Housman , Alfred Edward , 1859-1936 , poet and classical scholar x Housman , A E Indo-european languages Jackson , Henry , 1839-1921 , Vice Master of Trinity College Cambridge , classical scholar and philosopher Jebb , Sir , Richard Claverhouse , 1841-1905 , Knight , classical scholar, educationist and MP Kenny , Courtney Stanhope , 1847-1930 , Lecturer in Law Modern Language Association Montgomery , Marshall , 1881-1930 , German literary scholar Mullinger , James Bass , 1834-1917 , historian Napier , Arthur Sampson , 1853-1916 , English scholar National literatures Nicholson , Frank Carr , b 1875 , German scholar Postgate , John Percival , 1853-1926 , classical scholar Priebsch , Robert , 1866-1935 , Professor of German Rea , Thomas , fl 1904-1911 , German scholar Rippmann , Walter , b 1869 , German literary scholar Roberts , Ernest Stewart , 1847-1912 , Master of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge Sandbach , Francis Edward , 1874-1946 , Professor of German Skeat , Walter William , 1835-1912 , philologist Stead , William Thomas , 1849-1912 , newspaper editor and spiritualist University of Cambridge x Cambridge University Viëtor , Wilhelm , 1850-1918 , German scholar x Vietor , Wilhelm Ward , Sir , Adolphus William , 1837-1924 , historian

Source of acquisition by IGS not known

Correspondence and papers of Professor Karl Hermann Breul, 1885-1918, comprising:
General correspondence with academic friends and colleagues, students, benefactors, and publishers, correspondents include Hermann Hager, 1886-1893; Robert Priebsch, 1896-1913; Arthur Napier, 1888; Patrick Cahill, 1906-1907; W I McGowan 1902-1907; F C Nicholson, 1902-1913; Thomas Rea, 1904-1911; E L Milner-Barry, 1907-1911; Marshall Montgomery, 1910-1914; Walter Rippmann, 1906-1914; F E Sandbach, 1903-1911; Max Freund, 1909-1914; Charles Harold Herford, 1903-1913; Arvid Johansson, 1905-1913; J Kirkpatrick, 1906-1912; A C Benson 1904-1914; Oscar Browning, 1884-1907; Francis Darwin, 1899-1918; Sir James Frazer, 1912-1914; John Gibb, 1904-1906; A E Housman, 1911; Henry Jackson, 1890-1910; R C Jebb, 1894-1904; C S Kenny, 1907-1914; J B Mullinger, 1913-1914; J P Postgate 1892-1910; E S Roberts 1889-1913; W W Skeat, 1890-1907; Sir Adolphus William Ward, 1905-1912; Eugen Frisch, 1903; Wilhelm Viëtor, 1893-1903; Carl Dunker, 1908; Henry and Agnes Tiarks, 1909-1911; W T Stead, 1906; Theodor Lorens, 1905-1910, and Edward Bell, 1904-1913;
Correspondence on address for Professor C A Buchheim, 1897-1898;
Correspondence on 25th anniversary of the Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos at Cambridge, 1909;
Correspondence with the English Goethe Society, 1897-1910;
Correspondence with the Modern Language Association, 1897-1910, but mainly relating to meeting in Cambridge, 1910;

Personal Papers comprise:
Letters of congratulation on award of Prussian Order of the Red Eagle (4th Class), 1909;
Testimonials for posts of Professorship at Prague University, 1888, Examiner in the University of London, 1892, Professorship at Bedford College London, 1896, Professorship at University College London, 1897, Professorship in London University, 1902, and post of Examiner in German, Glasgow University, 1903;
Correspondence and papers on appointment as Schröder Professor of German at Cambridge, 1909-1910, including letters of congratulation and press cuttings;
Photograph of Karl Breul, 1885.

Papers divided into two broad classes, General Correspondence and Personal Papers

Researchers should apply to consult material at least forty-eight hours in advance by letter, facsimile, e-mail or telephone. The Library staff need a name and contact number, a concise and clear idea of the nature of the enquiry and a date and time for consultation.

Photocopies may be made, although this is at the discretion of the Librarian and is dependent on the nature of the material.

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000 and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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