Hans Naumann
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Hans Naumann was a German
literary historian (philologist) and folklorist (Germanist).
Naumann was born in Görlitz
and died in Bonn
. Being a member of the Nazi Party, Naumann was a strong proponent of the book burning
.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
literary historian (philologist) and folklorist (Germanist).
Naumann was born in Görlitz
Görlitz
Görlitz is a town in Germany. It is the easternmost town in the country, located on the Lusatian Neisse River in the Bundesland of Saxony. It is opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec, which was a part of Görlitz until 1945. Historically, Görlitz was in the region of Upper Lusatia...
and died in Bonn
Bonn
Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
. Being a member of the Nazi Party, Naumann was a strong proponent of the book burning
Nazi book burnings
The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the authorities of Nazi Germany to ceremonially burn all books in Germany which did not correspond with Nazi ideology.-The book-burning campaign:...
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Literary works
- Grundzüge der deutschen Volkskunde, 1922
- Deutsche Dichtung der Gegenwart, 1923
- Germanischer Schicksalsglaube, 1934