Éva Kocziszky

Éva Kocziszky

Éva Kocziszky (born December 25, 1953 in Békéscsaba ) is a Hungarian German scholar .

Life

Kocziszky studied German and Hungarian Philology from 1972 to 1977 at the University of Debrecen and at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest , and from 1980 to 1985 Ancient Greek at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She received her doctorate in 1987 with a dissertation on Hölderlin's translations of Sophocles . In 2000, she was the Academy of Sciences (DSc) Doctor, 2007 habilitation they are in professional literature with a monograph on Johann Georg Hamann .

From 1977 to 1997 Kocziszky taught at the József Attila University in Szeged in the subjects of Hungarian literature and German. From 1998 to 2005 she worked at the Philosophical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . From April 2006 to February 2010 she was Professor of Modern German Literature at the West Hungarian University of Sopron and Head of the Department of German Studies. Since 2014 she has been a professor at the Institute for German and Translation Studies at the Pannonian University of Veszprém .

Research priorities

As a Germanist, Kocziszky researches German literature of the 18th and 20th centuries, the aesthetics of the Enlightenment and the classical period (Hamann, Winckelmann, European neoclassicism) and German poetry from Friedrich Hölderlin to the present day. She deals with the transformations of antiquity into modernity - in literature and art - and wrote studies on the history of classical education.

Kocziszky teaches as a visiting professor at the University of Ca 'Foscari Venice , the Free University of Berlin (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), the Universities of Münster and Bochum, aUFR Institute of the Université Lorrain Metz and in Paris (Institut national d'histoire de l'art) . Research assignments led her u. a. to the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Memberships

• Since 1983 member of the Hungarian Society of Classical Studies.
• Member of the Hölderlin Society since 1986
• 2006–2012: Vice Secretary of the Hungarian Humboldt Association.
• 2007–2011: Chairwoman of the Hungarian Goethe Society.
• Since 2010: Member of the CEGIL Research Center at the Université Lorrain (Metz)
• 2015 March: Foundation of the Peter Szondi workshop at the Pannonian University

Publications (selection)

• Holderlin. Költészet a sötét nap fényénél. Budapest, Századvég 1994.
• Mythical figures in Hölderlin's late work, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 1997.
• Pán, a gondolkodók istene. Mitológia 1800 körül. Budapest, Osiris 1998.
• JG Hamann és a modernitás kritikája Budapest (Hermeneutikai Kutatóközpont) 2000.
• Hamann's Critique of Modernism, Freiburg, Karl Alber Verlag 2003.
• The fragile body. Between fragmentation and wholeness, ed. v. Elena Agazzi and Eva Kocziszky, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005.
• Holderlin's Orient. Königshausen & Neumann Verlag Würzburg 2009.
• Places of remembrance. Cultural topographical studies on the Danube Monarchy, Istros books 1, ed. v. Eva Kocziszky, Timpkiadó, Budapest 2009, 319–322
• Ruins in the modern age. Archeology and the Arts, ed. v. Eva Kocziszky, Reimer Verlag Berlin 2011.
• Deep down. Archaeological Imaginations of Poets, ed. v. Eva Kocziszky and Jörn Lang, Zabern Verlag, Darmstadt 2013.
• The strange land of the past. Archaeological poetry of the modern age, Böhlau Verlag Köln-Weimar-Wien 2015.
• (Ed.): Why poet? One hundred years of poetologies in the “poor time”, Frank & Timme Berlin 2016

Web links

• Eva Kocziszky on the homepage of the Université Lorrain Metz .
• by Eva Kocziszky on MTMT