Hermann Barnstorff

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Hermann Barnstorff as a student in Göttingen in 1912.

Hermann Barnstorff (* 12. August 1891 in Lilienthal Butendiek at Bremen ; † 9. November 1979 in Columbia , USA ) was a native of Germany German scholar who worked in the US.

Life

Barnstorff was born in 1891 into a farming family. After graduating from high school in Bremen , he studied modern languages ​​with a major in English at the University of Göttingen and later in Heidelberg , Geneva and Greifswald . In 1912 he joined the Holzminda fraternity in Göttingen . The First World War forced him to finish his studies in Germany, because he was at the outbreak of war in 1914 thanks to a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford University in England. There he was interned as a German and was not allowed to return to Germany. Only with the help of his federal brother Karl Jordan was he allowed to travel to the United States. There he was able to continue his studies at Ohio State University , where he did his master's degree in German literature.

From 1915 to 1917 he taught German in Cincinnati and worked as a businessman for various companies in Columbus (Ohio) and Cincinnati. In 1928 he graduated from Salmon P. Chase Law School in Cincinnati, whereupon he was admitted to the Ohio court. In 1932 he continued his foreign language studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison , where he received his doctorate in German studies in 1937 and taught as a professor from 1939. From 1943 to 1961 he was President of the German and Slavic Languages ​​department.

Barnstorff was a member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) , the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), the Modern Language Teachers Federation, and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). In 1938/39 he became regional vice-president and secretary of the German section of the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers (NFMLTA), in 1954 president of the German section of the Central States Modern Language Teachers Association and in 1960 chairman of the board of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG).

He has published numerous books and articles in the field of German language and literature and has received various international honors.

Publications (selection)

  • Child and school in the beautiful German literature of our time. In: Monthly booklets for German language and education. Vol. 18, 1917, pp. 2-10, 33-39.
  • Festschrift for the golden jubilee of the German Literary Club of Cincinnati, 1877–1927. Cincinnati 1927.
  • The social, political and economic criticism of time in Gerhart Hauptmann's work. In: Jena German Research , Volume 34. Jena, 1938.
  • Translating and interpreting Goethe's Faust 1, 682/3. In: Modern Language Notes . 58, 1943.
  • Studies in Theodor Storm. In: Modern Language Quarterly 5 (2), 250, 1944.
  • Gerhart Hauptmann and the state. In: Gerhart-Hauptmann-Blätter . Volume 10, Berlin 2008, pp. 6-11.

literature

  • Who's who in American education. Volume 18, 1958, p. 63.
  • Obituary in: Columbia Missourian November 10, 1979.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Barnstorff, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Lilienthal-Butendiek near Bremen
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1979
Place of death Columbia , USA