Horst Oppel

Horst Oppel (born June 30, 1913 in Halle (Saale) , † July 17, 1982 in Marburg ) was a German Anglicist .

life and work

Oppel received his doctorate in German studies on November 12, 1935 in Bonn with a thesis on comedy and humor in the creative structure of Friedrich Hebbel (Erfurt 1935). He then published The Literary Studies in the Present: Methodology and Science Theory (Stuttgart 1939, Ann Arbor 1980) and Studies on the Perception of the Nordic in Goethe's Time (Halle as 1944). In 1946 he was appointed to the English professorship at the newly founded University of Mainz , from where he moved to the University of Marburg in 1956 . From 1963 he belonged to the Mainz Academy of Sciencesin whose humanities and social science class he published numerous essays, most recently “Those Pelican Daughters” (King Lear III, 4): Wanderings and Changes of a Symbol (1979, No. 13). In 1979 he suffered a stroke from which he was unable to recover.

His students include Heinz Kosok, Paul Goetsch , Horst W. Drescher , Rudolf Böhm, Horst Prießnitz, Annegret Maak, Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel , Gertrud Jungblut and, from Romance studies, Hans Helmut Christmann . The Shakespeare archive of the Mainz Academy forms his estate. The Shakespeare picture archive Oppel - Hammerschmidt of the University of Mainz goes back to a foundation by Horst Oppel in 1946 and was built up by Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel.

more publishments

• Morphological literary studies: Goethe's view and method , Mainz 1947, Darmstadt 1967
• Peregrina: On the essence of poetry , Mainz 1947
• The Shakespeare picture of Goethe , Mainz 1949
• Titus Andronicus , Heidelberg 1961
• Shakespeare , Heidelberg 1963
• Shakespeare or Fletcher? The banquet scene in "Henry VIII" as a criterion of authorship (= treatises of the humanities and social science class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born 1965, No. 7).
• English-German literary relations , 2 volumes, Berlin 1971
• (Ed.) The modern English drama , Berlin 1963
• (Ed.) The modern English novel , Berlin 1965
• The Shakespeare illustration as an interpretation of poetry (= treatises of the humanities and social science class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1965, No. 2).
• (Ed.) The modern English poetry , Berlin 1967
• (Ed.) The English Drama of the Present , Berlin 1976

literature

• Goetsch, Paul; Kosok, Heinz; Otten, Kurt (ed.): The English novel in the 19th century . Interpretations, in honor of Horst Oppel. Schmidt, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-503-00750-4 , Bibliography H. Oppel, p. 332-346 .
• Obituary in: Anglia 101, 1983, pp. 1-4.

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Oppel in the catalog of the German National Library