Friedrich Sell (Germanist)

Friedrich Carl Bernhard Sell (born January 6, 1892 in Bonn ; † August 12, 1956 ) was a German German studies scholar , history educator and emigrant to the USA .

The son of Bonn theology professor Karl Sell attended the municipal grammar school in Bonn and studied history, German and Latin in Heidelberg, Leipzig and at the University of Bonn until the first state examination in 1916. Around this time he began to exchange letters with Carl Heinrich Becker , the later Prussian Minister of Education. He received his doctorate in Bonn in 1921 with a dissertation on Jean Paul's "dualism". From 1928 to 1929 he was a teacher in Altona , briefly also a laborer in the Prussian Ministry of Culture, then from 1930 as a professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Kassel until it closed in 1932, then again at schools in Schlüchtern , Dortmund and Marburg an der Lahn until early retirement on October 1, 1937. Sell emigrated to the USA in 1938, where he was lecturer at Harvard University . He then worked as a professor at Radcliffe College and Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts . In the 1920s he wrote for the German Center Party . He later published on Thomas Mann in particular . He became known for his analysis of German liberalism .

Fonts

• The State Policy of the Center , German Center Party, Berlin 1924
• The foreign policy of the center , German Center Party, Berlin 1924
• History experience and historical view, Theologische Rundschau 1937, NF, pp. 94–135
• A commentary on Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" , Madison 1948
• The tragedy of German liberalism , DVA, Stuttgart 1953 (first University of Michigan)

literature

• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian pedagogical academies (1926-1933) and universities for teacher training (1933-1941) / Alexander Hesse . German Studien-Verl., Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 .

Web links

• Friedrich Sell's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
• Bert Böhmer, Carl Heinrich Becker: History of an upper-class family in letters and documents