Else von Schaubert

Else Constanze Wilhelmine von Schaubert (born July 24, 1886 ; died July 19, 1977 in Jugenheim ) was a German English scholar and philologist .

Life

She came from the area of ​​today's Poland. Obernigk in Lower Silesia or Tomaszew in the province of Posen , now a district of Pleszew , are given as the birth cities .

Schaubert studied English in Breslau and Freiburg im Breisgau . She received her doctorate in 1920 and completed her habilitation in 1922 with the text "The English Origin of Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight". She taught in Breslau for several years before she was appointed associate professor in 1929. In 1939 she moved to the University of Poznan, where she was an adjunct professor until 1945 and, due to the war, she also represented the professor. In 1946 she received a professorship at the University of Göttingen and in the same year an extraordinary professorship at the University of Frankfurt ; she held the latter until she retired in 1955. Although she was the first woman allowed to teach in Frankfurt, she was denied a full professorship all her life. Without care, she lived in poor conditions in old age.

She taught and researched the Old and Middle English language and literature as well as Shakespeare .

Work (selection)

• Drayton's part in "Heinrich VI.", 2. u. Part 3 , doctoral thesis 1920
• The English origins of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , post-doctoral thesis 1922
• Complete redesign of Heyne Schücking's Beowulf edition , 1940
• Meaning and origin of Old English feormian and his clan , 1949
• Occurrence, regional distribution and origin of Old English absolute participle constructions in nominative and accusative , 1954
• Shelley's tragedy The Cenci and Marlowe's double drama Tamburlaine , 1965

literature

• Ursula Koehler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women, Bonn 2000, p. 310. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3