Harro de Wet Jensen

Harro de Wet Jensen (born July 31, 1901 in Marburg ; † January 2, 1994 in Kronberg ) was a German English graduate and professor at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Mainz .

Life

Harro Jensen was born as the son of the ancient orientalist Peter Jensen and Martha Luise, nee. Behn born. Jensen studied German, English and history at the universities of Marburg, Munich and Graz from 1919 to 1925. His Rigorosum took place on July 22, 1925, and he passed the state examination in autumn 1926. From 1926 to 1927 he studied at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth , where he was lecturer for German. On August 13, 1927, he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Wolfram von Eschenbach . From 1928 he continued his studies of English philology in Marburg. From January 1929 to April 1931 he received a scholarship. From May 1, 1931, he was an extraordinary assistant and from the summer semester of 1933 assistant at the university's English department. On May 27, 1933, he completed his habilitation in English philology.

Influenced by the new rulers, he was appointed to Heidelberg as successor to Johannes Hoops in 1936, despite his hitherto narrow work . Jensen had been a member of the NSDAP since 1932 and worked for the party as a district training leader. He was also a member of the SA , where he held the rank of Rottenführer in 1933. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . Jensen also worked as the deputy local group leader. From 1936 Jensen was associate professor at the University of Heidelberg , where he was in 1943 in absentia to Professor appointed.

In the Second World War he was drafted from 1941 and served as an interpreter in higher departments until 1945.

After the end of the war he was unable to return to the chair in Heidelberg, as he was dismissed by the American military administration. At first he lived in Gifhorn . From 1950 Jensen worked as a lecturer at the interpreting school in Germersheim of the University of Mainz . Jensen became a professor at the University of Mainz in 1954 and remained in this position until his retirement in 1969.

Fonts

• Edmund Burke's Conservative World and State . In: Anglia - Journal of English Philology. Volume 1934, Issue 58, pp. 225-291.

literature

• Franz-Rutger Hausmann: English and American Studies in the “Third Reich” , Klostermann, Frankfurt / M. 2003.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . updated 2nd edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986 . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 3540888349 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Harro de Wet Jensen in the catalog of the German National Library