Ernst Loewenberg

Ernst Lutwin Loewenberg (born June 15, 1896 in Hamburg ; † January 26, 1987 in Brookline , USA) was a German educator and university professor.

Life

Loewenberg was born as the eldest son of the poet and teacher Jakob Loewenberg . After completing school at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg , he first studied in Heidelberg, Berlin and Hamburg. In the second half of the First World War , he did military service from 1916 to 1918 as a volunteer, but resumed his studies after the war. Three years, in 1921, later he graduated with a work on a work Detlev von Liliencron and got the teaching certificate for the subjects German, French and Spanish.

From 1921 to 1929 and again from 1931 to 1934 he was a teacher at the Hamburg Lichtwark School , at the same time he was a lecturer in German literature at the University of Hamburg . During the two-year hiatus, Loewenberg tried to maintain the private lyceum previously run by his father, but did not succeed due to the global economic crisis . In 1934 he was dismissed from the civil service due to the law to restore the civil service and then switched to the largest Jewish school in Hamburg, the Talmud Tora School , where he taught until his emigration in autumn 1938. He was also a board member of the German-Israelite community in Hamburg during the early 1930s .

After emigrating to the USA, he taught at the Groton School in Massachusetts from 1940 to 1962 and then at Brandeis University until 1965 .

literature

• Studies on Liliencrons Poggfred (1921; dissertation)
• Jakob Loewenberg: A selection from his writings. - Edited and introduced by Ernst Loewenberg. - Berlin, 1937

swell

• Heinsohn, Kerstin (Red.): The Jewish Hamburg. - Göttingen 2006. (p. 176)
• Frank M. Loewenberg: The Family of Levi and Friederike Lo (e) wenberg , 2nd Edition