Frederick Heuser
Frederick Heuser (born October 13, 1878 in Kaiserswaldau near Bunzlau , † January 24, 1961 in New York ) was an American literary historian .
Life
Frederick Heuser studied at the Thomasschule in Leipzig and at the Boys High School in Brooklyn . From 1897 to 1901 he studied German with Calvin Thomas at Columbia University . From 1931 to 1944 he taught there as a professor of German literary history . He researched u. a. to Gerhart Hauptmann . Together with Robert H. Fife , he founded the specialist magazine "Germanic Review" in 1926. He founded the Germanistic Society of America and has headed it since 1955. In addition, he founded the Emergency Society for German and Austrian Science and Art with Franz Boas .
Awards
- 1951 honorary doctorate from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1955 Corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry
- 1957 Honorary Senator of the TH Stuttgart
literature
- Ernst Rose: Heuser, Frederick. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 46 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Frederick WJ Heuser , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 40/1961 of September 25, 1961, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heuser, Frederick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaiserswaldau, Bunzlau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1961 |
| Place of death | new York |