Elias Deaconid

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Elias Diaconide (born Yehuda Segall on 20th May 1891 in Huşi , died on 1. February 1945 in Bergen-Belsen ) was a Romanian sociologist , linguist and Rumänist that in the Netherlands worked.

life and work

Diaconide, whose father came from Königsberg , was born in Romania and grew up there. He went to Switzerland with his family and studied literature and law at the University of Lausanne (legal licentiate in 1915). From 1915 to 1918 he studied at the University of Zurich .

Then he went to the Netherlands and took the name Elias (also: Elie or: Ilie ) Diaconide. It was in 1938 Willem Adriaan Bonger at the University of Amsterdam with the work Etude critique sur la sociologie de Herbert Spencer (Paris 1938) graduated and was from 1936 to 1941 lecturer for contemporary Romanian and Romanian literature at the same university. He published a book on Romanian literature and extensive articles on the sociologists Ferdinand Lassalle and Emile Durkheim, on fundamental sociological and philosophical questions and on literary sociology, including in the Revue internationale de sociologie .

Diaconide was married for the first time from 1938 to 1941. His marriage was divorced on June 29, 1941, and he married Rachel-Regina Mischel on July 8, 1942 in Groningen . In the winter of 1942/43 the Dutch Jews were interned in the Westerbork transit camp. In April 1944 the Diaconide-Mischel family was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . Diaconide died there on February 1, 1945 of malnutrition, his wife (born 1908) and their daughter Ruth (born 1927), later Adelsheimer, survived.

Works (selection)

  • What is right Assen 1934.
  • Roemeense letters. De Groot, Amsterdam 1934, (“Romanian literature”, 238 pages, translated from the manuscript by D. Wiesebron; foreword by Marius François Valkhoff , review in: Folklore 46, 3, Sept. 1935, pp. 302–303, by Guda EG Duyvis).
  • Roemeense critiek ( Titu Maiorescu , Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea , Mihail Dragomirescu ). Amsterdam 1936 (“Romanian literary criticism”, inaugural lecture Amsterdam).
  • Etude critique sur la sociologie de Herbert Spencer . Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, Paris 1938 (373 pages, reviews in: American Journal of Sociology 44, 3, Nov. 1938, pp. 484-485, by Floyd N. House; and in: Revue de Métaphysique et de morale 46, 3, July 1939, p. 541, no signatory).
  • Ferdinand Lassalle . Sa vie et son oeuvre. In: Revue internationale de sociologie 46, 1938, pp. 227–279.
  • Souvenirs et documents inédits sur Dobrogeanu-Gherea. In: Neophilologus 23, 1938, pp. 323-329.
  • The substratum social du phénomène littéraire. In: Revue internationale de sociologie 47, 1939, pp. 527-543 (“The social substrate of the literature phenomenon”).
  • Une sociologie objective est-elle possible? In: Mélanges économiques et sociaux offerts à Emile Witmeur. Paris 1939, pp. 118–185 (“Is an objective sociology possible?”).
  • Émile Durkheim (1858-1917). In: Mensch en Maatschappij. Driemaandelijks tijdschrift voor sociale wetenschappen. 20, 1945, pp. 308-326.

literature

  • Laura Polexe: Networks and Friendship. Social Democrats in Romania, Russia and Switzerland on the threshold of the 20th century. Göttingen 2011, p. 232, footnote 701 (on diaconids).

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personal data
SURNAME Deaconid, Elias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diaconide, Ilie; Diaconide, Elie; Diaconide, E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian Romanist and Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Huși
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1945
Place of death Bergen-Belsen concentration camp