Adolf Beck (philologist)

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Adolf Beck (born May 1, 1906 in Ludwigsburg ; † April 18, 1981 in Tübingen ) was a German specialist in German studies and a Holderlin expert.

Life

Beck began studying theology at the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen in 1924 , worked as a private tutor for two years and then studied German and classical philology in Berlin and Königsberg from 1927 to 1935. After two years as an assistant to Julius Petersen in Berlin, he received his doctorate there in 1937 with a thesis on the translation of Aeschylus by Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg . Beck then worked as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam before he was drafted into military service when the war broke out. In Amsterdam he became a member of the NSDAP, but apparently failed to send a message to the party when he was drafted and was removed from membership. Dismissed in 1943 after being severely wounded, he worked at the Hölderlin archive of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart and completed his habilitation in Tübingen in 1946. From 1949 to 1969 Professor of German Philology at the University of Hamburg , he lived in Tübingen again after his retirement until his death.

Beck's research interests were in the history of German literature in the 18th and 19th centuries, in particular the work of Friedrich Hölderlin , whose correspondence and other life documents he edited as part of the Stuttgart Hölderlin edition. Together with Karl Ludwig Schneider and Hermann Tiemann , he also founded the historical-critical Hamburg Klopstock edition.

In 1973 Beck was awarded the Schiller Prize of the city of Marbach am Neckar for his work .

Works

  • (together with Robert Zilchert ) Goethe and the Olympic thought . Leipzig: Insel 1936.
  • The Aeschylus translation by Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg . Contributions to the history of the impact of ancient tragedy in Germany , Berlin 1937. (Dissertation)
  • Greek-German encounter. The German Greek experience in the storm and stress , Stuttgart: Cotta 1947.
  • From the circle of friends of Hölderlin after 1800 . In: Ewald Lissberger (ed.): In libro humanitas. Festschrift for Wilhelm Hoffmann on his 60th birthday, April 21, 1961 , Stuttgart: Klett 1962, pp. 315–335.
  • Research and interpretation. Selected essays on literature, ed. by Ulrich Fülleborn , Frankfurt a. M. [u. a.]: Athenäum-Verlag 1966.
  • Hölderlin's way to Germany. Fragments and theses, with a replica of Pierre Bertaux '" Friedrich Hölderlin " , Stuttgart: Metzler 1982.

literature

  • Studies on German Literature. Festschrift for Adolf Beck on his 70th birthday, ed. by Ulrich Fülleborn , Heidelberg 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Daniel Wilson: The Faustian Pact. Goethe and the Goethe Society in the Third Reich . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-28166-9 , pp. 225 .
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1981
Place of death Tübingen