Alfred Weber (Americanist)

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Alfred Weber (born January 15, 1925 in Berlin ; † March 23, 2006 ) was a German Americanist .

Life

From 1946 to 1951 Weber studied English, Romance studies and psychology at the Berlin Humboldt University (until 1949 Friedrich Wilhelms University), then at the University of Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1953 with the work Der Symbolismus TS Eliots: An attempt at a new approach .

From 1954 to 1962 he was an assistant, then from 1962 to 1964 he was a lecturer at the America Institute of the Free University of Berlin ; 1956–57 he taught for a year as an Honorary Fellow at the University of Minnesota . 1964–1968 he was a lecturer, then academic advisor at the University of Heidelberg , where he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Nathaniel Hawthorne's early work . In 1968 he followed a call to Tübingen as a full professor, where he held the chair for American studies until his retirement in 1990 .

In addition to literature, his research interests were American film and television; The founding of the German Film Archive for North American Studies , which was located at the Göttingen Institute for Scientific Film , which was closed in 2010, goes back to his suggestion .

Works (selection)

  • The development of the framework narratives Nathaniel Hawthorne . Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 1973. ISBN 3-503-00714-8 (At the same time, Habil. -schrift Heidelberg 1972)

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personal data
SURNAME Weber, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Americanist, literary and film scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2006