12 Facts About Andreas Heusler

Andreas Heusler was a Swiss philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.

Andreas Heusler was a Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Berlin and a renowned authority on early Germanic literature.

Andreas Heusler was born into a prestigious family in Basel, the third in a line of fathers and sons bearing the same name.

In 1890, when Andreas Heusler was 25 years old, he began lecturing in Berlin and was a professor of Nordic textual studies there from 1894 to 1913.

Andreas Heusler focused on research into Old Norse literature, especially the Poetic Edda and Islendingasogur, translating many works into German and traveling twice to Iceland.

From 1914 to 1919, Andreas Heusler was professor of Germanic textual studies at Berlin University.

Andreas Heusler moved back to Switzerland in 1920 and lived in Arlesheim near Basel, where a place was made for him at Basel University, where he worked until he reached the age limit in 1936.

Besides ancient Germanic and Nordic culture, Andreas Heusler was noted for his love of music ; around 1889 he switched from a strongly held Christianity to being a confirmed atheist.

Andreas Heusler seems at first to have been swayed by it, but it is thought that he turned his back on Adolf Hitler around 1938.

In 1893, Andreas Heusler married the singer Auguste Hohenschild, who was fourteen years his senior.

Andreas Heusler died in Basel in 1940 after a short illness.

Andreas Heusler was among the most influential figures in early Germanic studies in the first half of the twentieth century, and much of his work still resonates today, including the more questionable field propositions concerning "German-dom" and their reflection in early philological work.