Frederick Sefton Delmer

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Frederick Sefton Delmer (born October 24, 1864 in Battery Point, Hobart , Tasmania , Australia , † April 7, 1931 in Rapallo , Genoa , Liguria , Italy ) was an Australian linguist and literary scholar , university professor and publicist .

Life

His parents were James Delmer (1837-1914) and Margaret Sefton Burgess (1837-1886).

Delmer studied at Trinity College, Melbourne University , and continued his studies in Europe, where he made the acquaintance of Herman Grimm , the son of Wilhelm Grimm . On his return he became a teacher in Australia in 1896, but also wrote travelogues. He soon returned to Europe, where he became a lecturer at the University of Königsberg in 1900 , and from 1901 to 1914 he was an English lecturer at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin . He married Isabella Mabel Hook (1879–1938) in 1901. They had a son, Denis "Tom" Sefton Delmer (1904–1979) and a daughter, Margaret Mabel Sefton Delmer (1905–1990).

In 1910 he published the book English Literature from Beowulf to Bernard Shaw , which for decades became a standard work for English teaching in German schools.

At the beginning of the First World War he was interned in Berlin because he refused to take on German citizenship and was suspected of espionage . He was released in 1915. He later worked as a journalist , translator and interpreter in Germany and Italy .

Works

  • English Debating Exercise and Spoken Essays: A Tool for English Conversation Classes , 1912
  • English Literature from Beowulf to Bernard Shaw , Berlin 1910 (with many new editions until at least 1984; in 1951 the 22nd edition was published under the title From Beowulf to TSEliot, for the use of Schools, Universities and private Students. Twenty-second Edition with Alterations and New Chapters and Sections by HS Harcey, B. Litt. Published.)

literature

  • John Fletcher: Frederick Sefton Delmer , Sydney 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ^ " Scholarships and Exhibitions at the Colleges, " The Australasian , Feb. 28, 1891, 409.
  2. ↑ http://www.mundia.com/au/Person/14311178/642678397
  3. ↑ http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemdetailpaged.aspx?itemid=91068
personal data
SURNAME Delmer, Frederick Sefton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian Anglicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Hobart
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1931
Place of death Rapallo , Italy