Eva Fiesel

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Eva Fiesel b. Lehmann (born December 23, 1891 in Rostock , † May 27, 1937 in New York ) was a German linguist and Etruscanologist .

Life

Her father Karl Lehmann was a law professor and university rector at the University of Rostock in 1904/05 , and from 1911 in Göttingen, her mother the artist and social democrat Henni Lehmann . Her brother is the well-known archaeologist Karl Lehmann (-Hartleben) . In 1915 she married the Rostock teacher Ludolf Fiesel in Göttingen. In the winter semester of 1916/17 she enrolled at the University of Rostock. Her doctorate took place in Rostock in 1920 with Gustav Herbig with the work The grammatical gender in Etruscan . The divorce took place in 1926 and she has been a single mother since then. From 1931 to 1933 Fiesel taught as a private lecturer at the University of Munich . Despite some protests, she lost her position there in July 1933 as a Jew. Raimund Pfister was one of her students .

After an extended study visit to Florence with Giorgio Pasquali , she emigrated to the USA with her 13-year-old daughter Ruth in 1934, a year before her brother Karl, at the invitation of the linguist Edgar H. Sturtevant and taught - as the only woman at the time - as Research Assistant at Yale University before being appointed Visiting Professor at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. She died early of liver cancer.

Works

  • The Philosophy of Language of German Romanticism (1927)
  • Etruscan Linguistics (1931)
  • X presents a Sibilant in Early Etruscan, in: American Journal of Philology 57, 1936, pp. 261-270

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Eva Fiesel's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

  • Otto Wilhelm von Vacano :  Fiesel, Eva. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 143 ( digitized version ).
  • Frank Schröder (editor): 100 Jewish personalities from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Rostock 2003, p. 54
  • Hiltrud Häntzschel : "The philologist Eva Fiesel (1891-1937): Portrait of a scientific career in the field of tension between femininity and anti-Semitism", in "Yearbook of the German Schiller Society" 38 (1994), 339–363.
  • Hiltrud Häntzschel : "America gave her what her home country had always denied her." The philologist Eva Fiesel, in: Hiltrud Häntzschel & Hadumod Bußmann (ed.): Threatening clever. A century of women and science in Bavaria, Beck, Munich 1997 ISBN 9783406418570 , pp. 242–248
  • Hadumod Bußmann (ed.); Stepdaughters of the alma mater? 90 years of women's studies in Bavaria - using the example of the University of Munich , Antje Kunstmann, Munich 1993, p. 132 ISBN 3-88897-082-2

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personal data
SURNAME Fiesel, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and etrusculogist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1937
Place of death New York City