Ernst Jockers

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Ernst Wilhelm Jockers (born January 7, 1887 in Sand bei Kehl ; † September 7, 1963 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German-American writer , teacher , university professor and German studies specialist .

Life

Born as the son of the Schwanenwirt in Sand, Jockers studied philology , philosophy and geography in Strasbourg. During his studies in 1905 he became a member of the Arminia Strasbourg fraternity . In 1909 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1911 to 1914 he worked as a senior teacher for modern languages at the German School in Lisbon , then until 1919 as director of the modern languages ​​department at the German secondary school in Barcelona . From 1919 to 1924 he was a teacher at the secondary school in Pforzheim . 1925/26 he became a teacher at the City College of New York University and was 1926-1929 assistant professor for German language and literature at the University of Pittsburgh . He then worked at the University of Pennsylvania , from 1934 as a full professor of German literature. He also worked as a freelance writer . In 1936 he became a citizen of the United States of America. In 1957 he retired, but continued to give lectures and radio broadcasts in Philadelphia, mainly on writers he had met on his trips to Germany, for example at congresses and on the fringes of his guest lectures. In 1963 he moved back to Germany and died that same year in Bad Nauheim during a spa stay.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • The sixteenth century Seneca English translators. Dissertation University of Strasbourg 1909.
  • Remember that you are a German! Three speeches. Barcelona: Published by Carl Seither 1915.
  • German-American muse almanac. New York 1925.
  • The Germans. Your becoming and being. Richmond, New York 1929.
  • Changes. Poems. Berlin, New York 1931.
  • Social polarity in Goethe's classical music. Philadelphia 1942.
  • J. Otto Schweizer . The Man and His Work. Philadelphia 1953.
  • The ancestor. Freudenstadt 1957.
  • Ludwig Friedrich Barthel . A poet of our time. Passau 1960.
  • Florian Seidl . Kallmünz 1961.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , p. 370.

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personal data
SURNAME Jockers, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jockers, Ernst Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, teacher, university professor and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Sand near Kehl
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1963
Place of death Bad Nauheim