Franz H. Mautner
Franz Heinrich Mautner (born June 8, 1902 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died February 6, 1995 in Media Pennsylvania ) was an Austrian-American German studies scholar and literary scholar .
Life
Mautner studied German in Heidelberg and Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1926. He initially taught in Besançon and Vienna . In 1938, with the help of a brother, he managed to escape to the United States, who was later murdered in Auschwitz.
He taught at Wesleyan and Kenyon colleges . For a time he also lived in Marple Township . In 1955 he moved to Swarthmore in Pennsylvania, where he was professor at Swarthmore College since 1958 . Since 1977 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .
The satirists Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Johann Nestroy formed the focus of his research .
Works (selection)
- The Lichtenberg Reader / Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. - Boston: Beacon Pr., (1959)
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Thought Books . Edited and with an afterword by Franz H. Mautner. Frankfurt a. M.: Fischer library, 1963
- Lichtenberg: history of his mind. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1968
- Nestroy. Heidelberg: Stiehm, 1974
- Word and essence: smaller writings on literature and language. Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verl., 1974
literature
- Mautner, Franz Heinrich. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 16: Lewi – Mehr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22696-0 , pp. 373-377.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz H. Mautner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Google Books: Page 583, reference 34
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mautner, Franz H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mautner, Franz Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Germanist and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1995 |
| Place of death | Media (Pennsylvania) |