Hans-Jürgen Schings

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Hans-Jürgen Schings (born February 27, 1937 ) is a German specialist in German .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Schings received his doctorate from Gerhard Fricke in Cologne in 1965 and completed his habilitation in Mainz in 1975. From 1974 to 1981 he was a full professor at the University of Würzburg , from 1981 to 1986 at the University of Heidelberg , from 1986 to his retirement in 2005 at the Free University of Berlin . His main areas of research and teaching include German literature from the Baroque period, the Enlightenment, the Goethe era and classical modernism. Since his habilitation thesis on melancholy and enlightenment in literary anthropology, a research field in which he has stimulated numerous studies, he has been particularly interested.

Schings was a visiting professor at the University of Kansas (1981) and the University of California , Los Angeles (1990 and 1993), as well as at Nihon University , Tokyo (2000) in Japan .

His students include Peter-André Alt , Gundula Ehrhardt, Monika Fick , Werner E. Gerabek , Alexander Košenina , Stephan Porombka , Wolfgang Riedel , Hedwig Richter and Norbert-Christian Wolf .

On the occasion of his 65th birthday, the commemorative publication Prägnanter Moment was dedicated to him in 2002 .

Awards

Works (selection)

  • The patristic and stoic tradition with Andreas Gryphius. Investigations on the dissertations funebres and tragedy. (= Cologne German Studies, Vol. 2). Böhlau, Cologne / Graz 1966.
  • Melancholy and enlightenment. Melancholics and their critics in empirical psychology and literature of the 18th century. Metzler, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-476-00354-X
  • “The most compassionate person is the best person”. Poetics of Compassion from Lessing to Büchner. Beck, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-406-07605-X
  • The brothers of the Marquis Posa. Schiller and the Illuminati secret society. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-484-10728-6 .
  • Consent to the world. Goethe studies . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4663-6 .
  • Revolutionary Studies. Schiller, Goethe, Kleist . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8260-4984-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter-André Alt (ed.): Concise moment. Studies on German Enlightenment and Classical literature. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2311-0 . Contains bibliography H.-J. Schings: pp. 513-522.
personal data
SURNAME Schings, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1937