George Stefansky

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George Stefansky (born November 8, 1897 in Prague , † December 23, 1957 in New York City ), originally Georg Stefansky , was a German-American literary scholar and sociologist of Austrian-Czech-Jewish origin.

Life

Georg Stefansky was the son of the Prague merchant Michael Stefansky (-1931) and Olga Fried (-1932) in Smíchov . After graduating from the German St. Stephen's High School in Prague in 1917, he first studied natural sciences at the German University in Prague , switched to philosophy and philology in 1919 and received his doctorate at the end of 1922. In 1926 he was co-editor of the magazine Euphorion . In 1927 he received his habilitation in Modern German Literature History in Prague , where he became a private lecturer, and in 1928 he moved to Berlin University as a senior assistant . From April 1929 he was a private lecturer at the University of Münster . In December 1932 he traveled to Czechoslovakia , where he married Dora Pick (ova) (1911-) in September 1931, with whom he later had a daughter Kaye (* 1943).

After the transfer of power to the Nazis , he was on September 7, 1933 due to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil the teaching license revoked at the University of Münster and which also gives the editorship of the magazine, named by the Nazi German Germanists Julius Petersen and Hermann Pongs in Poetry and folklore was renamed. In the following years Stefansky tried unsuccessfully for a teaching position in Great Britain or for a re-employment at the German University in Prague, where anti-Semitism increased. The works he wrote during this time remained unprinted, the manuscripts for Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling's correspondence and a three-volume biography of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi were lost. In 1938/1939 he gave guest lectures at the University of Geneva and fled to the USA in 1939, while he was still expropriated in the German Reich. In New York, he initially had a teaching position for the German language at the City College of New York and, at the advice of Louis Wirth, he also obtained a Master of Science degree in sociology . From 1945 George Stefansky taught sociology at the Graduate School of New York University . From 1943 to 1953 he worked for the Keren Hajessod , a donation organization in support of the Jewish Agency's immigration efforts , and then for the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel.

The communication about the result of the Münster reparation proceedings, which granted him the legal position of associate professor in 1957, did not reach him. In 2010, the University of Münster declared "that the dismissals of the following members and relatives of the university between 1933 and 1945 for" racial "and political reasons are null and void," including Georg Stefansky.

Fonts

  • Does the refugee have a future? : an analysis of the position of homeless jews in the postwar world , New York, NY: United Palestine Appeal, 1945
  • Problems in the administration of Foreign Post-War Relief with special emphasis on the question of personnel , 1944
  • The Critique of Religious Faith in German Spiritual Life in the 18th Century: Academic Inaugural Lecture , Stuttgart: Metzler, 1929
  • August Sauer , Stuttgart: Metzler, 1927
  • Justus Möser's view of history in the context of German literature of the 18th century , lecture given in front of the Philosophical Faculty of the German University in Prague in the winter semester 1926/27, Stuttgart: Metzler, 1927
  • August Sauer : History of literature and folklore: Rector's speech; Go in d. Auditorium d. German University in Prague on Nov. 18, 1907 , 2nd unchanged. Output with e. Follow-up by Georg Stefansky, Stuttgart: JB Metzler, 1925
  • The Hellenic-German view of the world: Introduction to d. Life story of Schelling , Bonn: F. Cohen, 1925
  • The power of historical subjectivism , Vienna: C. Fromme, 1924
  • Theory of the paradox: a hitherto unknown work by Wilhelm Heinses , 1924
  • The essence of German romanticism: Crit. Studies on its history , Stuttgart: JB Metzler 1923
  • A new way to Heinrich von Kleist , Stuttgart: JB Metzler 1921
  • Schwertreigen , Leipzig: Xenien-Verl., 1918 (poems)

literature

  • Wolfgang Adam: Stefansky, Georg. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 3: R-Z. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1792-1793.
  • Gisela Möllenhoff; Rita Schlautmann-Overmeyer: Jewish families in Münster 1918 to 1945. Biographical Lexicon , Münster: Westfäl. Steam boat, 1995 ISBN 3-929586-48-7
  • Andreas Pilger: German studies at the University of Münster. From the beginnings around 1800 to the time of the early Federal Republic . Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Authors, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-48-3 , pp. 223-274.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss , (Ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1109
  • Stefansky, George. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 , pp. 423-426.
  • Otto Gertzen: In memory of Georg Stefansky , floor talk, University of Münster, 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. see the names of Dora Stefansky and Georg Stefansky
  2. foreword by Hasia R. Diner to Louis Wirth, The Ghetto , 1997 ISBN 9781560009832
  3. Registration statements, promotional pamphlets and brochures, corporate documents, memoranda and newsletters connected with the issuance of Israel Bonds. For the Development Corporation for Israel (DCI) see Wikipedia en: State of Israel Bonds
  4. Declaration Uni Münster 23 June 2010 (PDF file; 51 kB)