Eleonore Dörner

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Eleonore Dörner (born November 20, 1912 in Perleberg as Eleonore Benary ; † June 8, 1997 in Nuremberg ) was a German Germanist and writer.

Life

Eleonore Dörner was born as the eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel and writer Albert Benary and his wife Clara. Hoepke, born. She came from a family with different academic traditions: one of her great-grandfathers was the classical philologist Albert Agathon Benary , another the anatomy professor Leonard Landois , her uncle Hermann Hoepke was a medical doctor. At home there was a lot of reading and emphasis on classical languages ​​and music. Due to her father's career as an officer, the family moved frequently. She received her education in the elementary school in Karlsruhe , in the Lyceum in Stendal , in the Cäcilienschule in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and in the humanistic high school in Lyck (East Prussia), which she attended as the only girl. In the Evangelical Church in Lyck she was born on March 18, 1928 with the confirmation motto Be faithful until death, so I want to give you the crown of life. (Revelation 2:10). She spent the last years of school in the State Augusta School in Berlin, which she left on March 2, 1931 with the certificate of maturity. She kept in close contact throughout her life, especially with her classmates from Berlin.

Dörner then studied German literature, history, geography and philosophy in the summer semester of 1931 at the University of Greifswald , where she lived with her great-grandmother Clara Landois, the widow of the Greifswald University Rector Leonard Landois (brother of Hermann Landois ), to whom she “in admiration and gratitude “Dedicated her dissertation. From the winter semester 1931/32 to the summer semester 1932, she studied in Freiburg im Breisgau , where, in addition to lectures with Arnold Berney , Hermann Heimpel , Walther Kolbe , Hans Mortensen , Gerhard Ritter , Georg Stieler , Ludwig Sütterlin , Friedrich Wilhelm and Philipp Witkop, she was already a second semester attended a senior seminar with Martin Heidegger after she was able to prove that she had read all of Plato's dialogues in Greek. In the winter semester 1932/33 she studied in Berlin with Professors Baron, Caspar, Nicolai Hartmann , Fritz Hartung , Hübner, Heinrich Maier , Petersen and Rühl, and from the summer semester 1933 on again in Greifswald, where she held events with Erich Boehringer , Gustav Braun , Fritz Curschmann , Carl Engel , Werner Frauendienst , Wilhelm Hartnack , Heller, Adolf Hofmeister , Günther Jacoby , Kaiser, Josef Keil , Lutz Mackensen , Leopold Magon , Bruno Markwardt , Johannes Paul , Hans Pichler , Walther Schulze-Soelde , Otto Schmitt and Wolfgang Stammler visited. Her doctorate took place with a thesis on the subject of song forms of German mysticism in the 14th and 15th centuries with Wolfgang Stammler at the University of Greifswald . Leopold Magon was the co-examiner at the oral examination on December 6, 1935; Throughout her life, Eleonore Dörner felt a special bond with St. Nicholas , to whom she dedicated a study From Asia Minor to German Nurseries .

Two years later she married the ancient scholar Friedrich Karl Dörner ; they moved to Istanbul . In 1942 their only daughter Susanne was born in Vienna, who married the theologian Johannes Lähnemann in 1967 . She and her husband traveled to the Mediterranean on several occasions and took part in the excavations in Kommagene , which he led. In 1985 she moved with her husband to her daughter and their three granddaughters Henrike , Charlotte and Luise Lähnemann in Nuremberg, where she developed her lively lecturing activities for the Association of Women and Culture and the Association of Pontic Greeks , among others . She published several works on the history of archeology, including on Carl Humann , and descriptive reports from the excavations ( At the god kings in Kommagene ). She also increasingly published translations from the languages ​​that she systematically acquired; After learning Latin, Greek, French and English in school, she also learned Turkish for the excavations, Italian for the numerous study visits to Italy, where the couple had set up a seconda patria on Lake Maggiore , Modern Greek, Dutch and finally Spanish, when she visited her nieces in Argentina shortly before her death. Towards the end of her life she published two volumes with her own fairy tales, the first illustrated by Ingrid Schaar .

Fonts

Title page to At the God-Kings in Commagene
  • (as Eleonore Benary): Lied forms of German mysticism in the 14th and 15th centuries , dissertation Greifswald 1936 ( PDF ).
  • Kommagene today - impressions of the country and its people. In: Friedrich Karl Dörner: Kommagene - a rediscovered kingdom. With pictures from a painter's journey by Alexej von Assaulenko and contributions by Katharina von Assaulenko, Eleonore Dörner and Christian Jenssen. Codex-Verlag, Grundholzen, Böblingen, 1966–1971, pp. 106–141.
  • with Theo G. Hellenkemper: A trip into the forgotten kingdom of Kommagene. Tropon-Arzneimittel, Cologne 1973 (pons travel books).
  • with Friedrich Karl Dörner : cult image and portrait. Portraits of women in ancient Greece. Raggi, Feldmeilen 1977 ( Antique World . Special Issue 1977).
  • With the god kings in Kommagene. Experiences in a German excavation camp in eastern Turkey. Knoth, Melle 1983, ISBN 3-88368-063-X ( Writings of the Hermann Bröckelschen Foundation , Volume 6) ( PDF ).
  • with Friedrich Karl Dörner: From Pergamon to Nemrud Dağ. The archaeological discoveries of Carl Humann. von Zabern, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-8053-0998-8 ( Cultural History of the Ancient World , Volume 40; Writings of the Hermann Bröckelschen Foundation , Volume 8).
    • also: Nemrut Dağinda ilâhlar arasinda. Kültür Bakanlığı, Ankara 1992, ISBN 975-17-0188-0 ( Kültür Bakanlığı yayınları , Volume 960; Dünya edebiyatı dizisi , Volume 3).
  • The mountain lion and twelve wonderful stories. Fairy tales from our time. EB-Verlag, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-923002-67-X ( PDF ).
  • Loving hearts in Trebizond and other fairy tales from our days Verlag Peter Athmann, Nuremberg 1997.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Confirmation album for her granddaughter Henrike .
  2. ↑ The information comes from the curriculum vitae at the end of the dissertation.
  3. ↑ Eleonore Dörner: Lecture on the history of the worship of St. Nicholas (PDF; 50 kB)
  4. ↑ Woman and Culture .
personal data
SURNAME Dörner, Eleonore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benary, Eleonore (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Pearl Mountain
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1997
Place of death Nuremberg