Karl Helm (full name Karl Hermann Georg Helm; 19 May 1871 in Karlsruhe – 9 September 1960 in Marburg) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies
Biography
Karl Helm was born in Karlsruhe, Germany on 19 May 1871. He studied German philology in Heidelberg and Freiburg, earning his doctorate in 1895 with a study on 16th-century poetry.
Helm's habilitation was on the literature surrounding the Teutonic Order, published 1899 in Giessen. After teaching in Giesen, Würzburg and Frankfurt, he received tenure in Marburg as professor for early Germanic philology (Altgermanistik) in 1921.
Peter Wengel: Karl Helm. In: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950, eds. König, Wägenbaur, Frindt, vol. 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin – New York 2003. ISBN3110154854.