Harry C. Cord

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Harry C. Schnur ( Latinized C. Arrius Nurus ; born February 24, 1907 in Berlin , † February 21, 1979 in Hong Kong ) was a Jewish German-American classical philologist , Middle and Neo-Latin and translator.

Life

Schnur was born in Berlin to Jewish parents. After graduating from high school at Berlin's Grunewald-Gymnasium in 1925 , he first studied law as well as classical philology and in 1929 obtained his doctorate at the University of Leipzig . With a degree in economics at the London School of Economics , he prepared for a job in the tobacco industry, in which his father, David Schnur (1882-1948), originally from Baranovi in Galicia , already worked and as a partner in the Reemtsma cigarette factories GmbH had achieved fortune and prosperity. The mother, Else Neumann (1886–1965), came from Vienna. Originally, Schnur, like his parents, had Austrian citizenship. In 1932 he married Claire Müller from Hamburg. From this marriage there were four children.

In 1935, following warnings from the Reemtsma family, he emigrated to the Netherlands and worked for the Zionist movement in Amsterdam . In 1940, four days after the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II, he and his family managed to escape to England. In 1947 he emigrated to New York, where his parents had previously sought refuge from racist persecution by the Nazi regime. Here he worked as a journalist and translator, among other things. From 1952 to 1956 he studied after the death of his first wife († 1951) at the New York University Classics and acquired with the dissertation The age of Petronius the Ph.D. , the work went unpublished. He taught at various universities in New York and New Rochelle before returning to Germany, where he taught at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and as a visiting professor at the University of Tübingen . In 1968 he married his second wife, Rhoda R. Dorner, with whom he had a daughter. In 1973 the family moved to St. Gallen in Switzerland. In 1979 Harry C. Schnur died while on a world tour in Hong Kong .

Schnur was a translator of ancient Greek ( Theocrit ) and classical Latin ( Juvenal , Petron , Virgil , Fables , Martial ) as well as neo-Latin texts ( Johannes Reuchlin , Jakob Wimpheling and other humanists ) into the German language. One of his hobbies was the writing of neo-Latin literature . For example, he wrote a text in Latin about the day the Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961, which he experienced in Berlin. The booklet was published in 2011 by the Berlin House of Representatives. He is also the author of numerous Latin poems and is considered one of the most important Latin poets of modern times.

Publications (selection)

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  • A complete bibliography can be found compiled by Gilbert Tournoy and KL Weitzel in: Pegasus devocatus. Studia in honorem C. Arri Nuri sive Harry C. Schnur. Accessere selecta eiusdem opuscula inedita . Leuven University Press, Leuven, ISBN 90-6186-474-7 , (online) , pp. 8-70.

Own seals

  • 1962: Pegasus tolutarius . Sanderus, Oudenarde 1962.
  • 1969: Carmen heroico-macaronicum. Latin-German.
  • 1977: Pegasus claudus (= Vox latina , supplementary volume 1). Saarbrücken University, Saarbrücken 1977.
  • 1992: Pegasus devocatus. Studia in honorem C. Arri Nuri sive Harry C. Schnur. Accessere selecta eiusdem opuscula inedita Leuven University Press, Leuven, ISBN 90-6186-474-7 , (online)
  • 2011: C. Arrius Nurus: Vallum Berolinense. Menippea. An exiled Berliner experiences the construction of the Berlin Wall , edited and translated by Fritz Felgentreu . 2nd Edition. Berlin House of Representatives, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-922581-03-1

Editing and translations

  • 1967: Latin poems by German humanists (Reclam's Universal Library 8739/45). Latin-German. Reclam, Stuttgart.
  • 1969: as a translator, with an introduction and an appendix: Satiren / Juvenal . Reclam Universal Library No. 8598/8600, Stuttgart.
    • 1994 as a reprint: Reclam, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-15-008598-5 .
    • 2013 as reprint: as translator with introduction and appendix: Iuvenalis, Decimus Iunius: Satiren . Reclam, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-15-008598-1 .
  • 1970: as translator and editor: Henno von Johannes Reuchlin , Latin-German comedy. Reclam Universal Library No. 7923, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-15-007923-3 .
  • 1971: as translator and editor: Stylpho / Jakob Wimpheling. Latin-German. Reclam Universal Library No. 7952, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-15-007952-7 .
  • 1975: Theocritus. Knödler, Reutlingen, ISBN 3-7749-2306-X .
  • 1978: as editor: Die Hirtenflöte. Bucolic poetry from Virgil to Geßner. Reclam's Universal Library No. 690, Leipzig.
  • 1984: with Rainer Kößling : Galle und Herz. Humanist epigrams , second edition. Reclam, Leipzig.
  • 1987: Translation and explanation: Petronius. A Roman picaresque novel , with bibliography. Reclam, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-15-008533-0 .
  • 1988: as translator and editor (reprint): Virgil, Hirtengedichte (Bucolica) . Reclams Universal Library No. 637, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-15-000637-6 .
  • 2004: as editor and translator: Fables of Antiquity , German, Greek and Latin. Albatros, Düsseldorf, ISBN 3-491-96124-6 .
  • 2010: selected, translated and explained: Martial. Epigrams. Reclam, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-15-019802-5 .

Monographs

  • 1943: Teuton Torturers. A Pictorial Record of 1000 Years of Persecution in Germany . Alliance Press, London 1943.
  • 1949: Mystic Rebels. Apollonius Tyonaeus, Jan van Leyden, Sabbatai Zevi, Cagliostro . Beehurst Press, New York City 1949.
    • New edition 1995: Kessinger Publishing.

literature

  • Jozef IJsewijn : C. Arri Nuri Vita. In: Pegasus devocatus. Studia in honorem C. Arri Nuri sive Harry C. Schnur. Accessere selecta eiusdem opuscula inedita Leuven University Press, Leuven, ISBN 90-6186-474-7 , pp. 3–7, (online)
  • Dirc Sacré : Schnur's Latin Poetry: An Introduction . In: Pegasus devocatus. Studia in honorem C. Arri Nuri sive Harry C. Schnur. Accessere selecta eiusdem opuscula inedita Leuven University Press, Leuven, ISBN 90-6186-474-7 , pp. 71-100, (online)
  • Wilfried Stroh : Harry C. Schnur (1907–1979). De C. Arrio Nuro magistro epistula ad Ernestum Vogt , in: Eikasmos 4 (1993), pp. 337-340.
  • Hermann Wiegand : Epilogue. II. In: Latin poems by German humanists. Latin / German. Selected, translated and explained by Harry C. Schnur. With an afterword to the third edition by Hermann Wiegand (= Reclam's Universal Library 19289). Reclam, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 509-512. - (To the Vita)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Josef IJsewijn, C. Arrii nuri vita (in Latin), in: Pegasus devocatus (see above literature), pp. 3–7; Hermann Wiegand, in: Latin poems by German humanists (see literature above), pp. 506–516.
  2. ↑ Vallum Berolinense: The building of the wall in Latin in FAZ from January 11, 2012, p. N3.
  3. ↑ Pegasus claudus (see publications below); see. Dirc Sacré: Schnur's Latin Poetry: An Introduction . In: Pegasus devocatus. Studia in honorem C. Arri Nuri sive Harry C. Schnur. Accessere selecta eiusdem opuscula inedita Leuven University Press, Leuven, ISBN 90-6186-474-7 , pp. 71-100.
personal data
SURNAME Cord, Harry C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nurus C. Arrius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American classical philologist, translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1979
Place of death Hong Kong