Emil Wolff (English studies)

Jakob Heinrich Emil Wolff (born October 11, 1879 in Munich ; † February 24, 1952 in Hamburg ) was a German English professor and professor at the University of Hamburg . In 1945 he was appointed the first rector of the university by the British occupation forces after the end of the Second World War and the collapse of National Socialism .

Life

Emil Wolff grew up in Munich and graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium there in 1898 as a class leader. He studied legal history , Sanskrit and German and English philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , with the exception of one semester in which he was enrolled at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1908 Wolff received his doctorate in Munich with a dissertation on Francis Bacon and his relationship with Plato . In 1911 his habilitation followed in Munich, where he was appointed associate professor in 1917 .

After a brief military service, Wolff held a visiting professorship in Ghent in the summer semester of 1918 before he was appointed to the Hamburg Colonial Institute in the same year . At the Hamburg University, which emerged from the institute in 1919, Wolff taught until his retirement in 1951, despite several appointments from other universities.

From October 1921 to September 1922 Emil Wolff held the office of Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, twice that of Rector of Hamburg University, from 1923 to 1924 and from 1945 to 1947.

Wolff was married to Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg, a daughter of Hamburg's First Mayor Johann Georg Mönckeberg .

literature

• Anton F. Guhl: Wolff, Emil. In: Hamburg biography . Volume 6, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , pp. 378-380.
• Frank-Ruther Hausmann: English and American Studies in the “Third Reich”. Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-465-03230-4 .
• Eckart Krause, Ludwig Huber and Holger Fischer (eds.): Everyday university life in the “Third Reich”. The Hamburg University 1933–1945. 3 volumes, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-496-00867-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Emil Wolff in the catalog of the German National Library , accessed on February 23, 2017.
• Literature by and about Emil Wolff in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Emil Wolff in the Hamburg professor catalog (accessed on June 18, 2017) 
• Christian E. Lewalter: The Glory of the Unfamous , accessed on February 23, 2017.
• Letter from eyewitness Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg about the consequences of the Hamburg firestorm (August 24, 1943) , accessed on February 23, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annual report on the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1897/98.