Albert Viktorovich Karelski

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Albert Wiktorowitsch Karelski ( Russian Альберт Викторович Карельский ; born January 31, 1936 in Erhovka , † June 24, 1993 in Moscow ) was a Russian literary scholar , Germanist, translator, doctor of philology and university professor.

Life

Karelski was born into a rural family of teachers in Tambov Oblast . From 1953 to 1957 he studied at the Institute for Romance and Germanic Languages ​​at Lomonossow University in Moscow , and from 1957 to 1959 at the Institute for Philology at Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1959 he completed his studies at Lomonosov University and took up a doctoral position at the Department of Foreign Literary History. He taught German, general foreign literary history of the 19th and 20th centuries and German literature. In 1967 he defended his dissertation on The Theme of the Second World War in the West German novel .

At the same time, Karelski began to participate in the Germanic group of the Maxim Gorki Institute for World Literature . From 1973 to 1978 he worked at the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences . From 1987 he taught at the Department of Foreign Literature of the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov University. In 1986 he defended his dissertation on the dramaturgy of German romanticism in the first third of the 19th century (development of methods and genres) . In the 1980s and 1990s he was editor-in-chief of the news magazine of Lomonosov University (Philology series) . In 1991 he was appointed to the University of Cologne to teach the history of foreign literature.

After his death, Karelski was buried in the Khimki cemetery.

plant

The first translations of numerous works by German-language writers into Russian can be traced back to Karelski. Karelski translated works by Heinrich von Kleist , ETA Hoffmann , Joseph von Eichendorff , Johann Ludwig Tieck , Friedrich Nietzsche , Rainer Maria Rilke , Stefan George , Heimito von Doderer , Robert Musil , Franz Kafka , Günter Grass , Christa Wolf , Heinrich Böll , Hermann Broch and Max Frisch . In addition, Karelski wrote forewords to the Russian editions of numerous German-language works translated into Russian and articles on foreign literary history and theory.

Karelski wrote two books on German-language literature:

  • Карельский, Альберт Викторович: От героя к человеку: Два века западноевропейсой литературы (From Literature) to the West European (From Literature to Man) . Советский писатель, Moscow 1990.
  • Карельский, Альберт Викторович: Драма немецкого романтизма (The Drama of German Romanticism) . Медиум, Moscow 1992.

Karelski's works have been published posthumously in:

  • Карельский, Альберт Викторович: Метаморфозы Орфея: Беседы по истории западной литературы (metamorphoses of the Orfeus literature) . РГУ, Moscow 1998.

to honor

In 1995 the magazine Ausländische Literatur announced a literary award which was named Karelskis. Lomonosov University's Faculty of Philology regularly holds conferences in his honor. Karelski's grave has been decorated with a wooden cross by the sculptor Dmitri Michailowitsch Schachowskoi since 1997 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f О. Б. Вайнштейн: Карельский, Альберт Викторович . In: С. О. Шмидт (Ed.): Московская Энциклопедия, Том 1 - Лица Москвы . tape 2 . Фонд Московские энциклопедии, 2008, ISBN 978-5-903633-01-2 , p. 120 .
  2. ↑ Werner Keller: Obituary for Professor Dr. phil. habil. Albert Karelski . In: Goethe yearbook . tape 110 . H. Böhlaus Nachf., 1993, ISSN  0323-4207 , p. 361 ff .
  3. ↑ In memoriam Альберт Викторович Карельский. Department of History of Foreign Literatures, Lomonosov State University of Moscow (MGU), accessed January 14, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Karelski, Albert Wiktorowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karelski, Albert; Карельский, Альберт Викторович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian philologist, Germanist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Ershovka
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1993
Place of death Moscow