Erika Lorenz

Erika Lorenz (born March 20, 1923 in Hamburg ; † August 2, 2003 ibid) was a German Romance and Hispanicist .

Lorenz received his doctorate in 1953 in Hamburg under Rudolf Grossmann with Rubén Darío "bajo el divino imperio de la música". Study on the importance of an aesthetic principle (Hamburg 1956). From 1956 she worked at the Ibero-American Research Institute in Hamburg. She completed her habilitation in 1960 with The Metaphorical Cosmos of Modern Spanish Poetry 1936–1956 (Hamburg 1961). In 1964 and 1965 she was visiting professor in Bogotá and Medellín (Colombia). From 1969 until her retirement in 1985, she taught as a professor for Spanish, Latin American and French literature and linguistics at the University of Hamburg. Numerous texts on Spanish mysticism ( Teresa of Avila , John of the Cross , Francisco de Osuna , Ramon Llull ) were selected, translated, annotated and edited by Erika Lorenz. As in many of her monographs, she combined the Romance scholarly competence with the Catholic faith practiced since her conversion in 1956 .

Fonts

• The old Spanish cid , Munich 1971
• Teresa of Ávila. Light and Shadow , Schaffhausen 1982
• Not all nuns are allowed to do this: Teresa von Ávila and Father Gracián, the story of a great encounter , Freiburg 1983, 1984, 1988, Polish: Posen 1997
• The near God in the word of Spanish mysticism , Freiburg 1985
• A pathless path. Teresa of Ávila. Experience reports and inner biography , Freiburg 1986, 1990
• (Ed. Together with Veronika Straub) Women of the Church: Hildegard von Bingen , Caterina von Siena , Teresa von Avila , Maria Ward , Lucretia Marinella and Marie de Jars de Gournay , Munich 1986
• The Lord's Prayer of Teresa of Ávila. Instructions for Contemplation , Freiburg 1987, 4th edition 1990
• Written in the dark. John of the Cross: Letters of Spiritual Guidance , Freiburg 1987
• From karma to carmel. Experiences on the Inner Path , Freiburg 1989
• Light of night. Johannes von Kreuz tells his life , Freiburg 1990, 1992, Italian: San Giovanni della Croce. Una vita drammatica in forma di autobiografia , Casale Monferrato 1994
• On Jacob's ladder. The mystical way of St. John of the Cross , Freiburg 1991
• Word in silence. On the essence of Christian contemplation , Freiburg 1993
• (Together with Helmuth N. Loose) Teresa von Ávila. A biography with pictures and texts , Freiburg 1994
• Practice of contemplation. The instruction of classical mysticism , Munich 1994, Frankfurt am Main 1997
• Way into the distance. The three lives of Teresa von Ávila , Freiburg 2003, Spanish: Barcelona 2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Erika Lorenz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kirsten Süselbeck: Erika Lorenz (1923–2003).