Horst Rudiger

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Horst Rüdiger (born September 20, 1908 in Geringswalde ; † November 5, 1984 in Partschins ) was a classical philologist, Germanist, Romance scholar and professor of comparative literature at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He became known to a wider public as a translator of ancient poetry and a publicist for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . Rüdiger was the founder and editor of the comparative specialist journal “ arcadia. International Journal of Literary Studies ” .

Live and act

School and study

Rüdiger attended the Evangelical Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden and passed the Abitur there. He then completed an apprenticeship as an export merchant. Rüdiger began his studies in Hamburg with German, classical and Romance studies. He then studied in Heidelberg with a major in German and minor sociology with Alfred Weber and philosophy with Karl Jaspers . His actual teacher, however, was Friedrich Gundolf . He accepted him as a doctoral student just a few days after the first encounter. The topic of his dissertation was “Sappho. Your reputation and fame with posterity ” . After Gundolf's death, Rüdiger completed his doctorate in German studies with von Waldberg in 1932 .

As a lecturer in Italy

Instead of taking a position as an assistant at the university, Rüdiger decided to work as a freelance writer and translator for several years. Between 1938 and 1957 he worked as a lecturer at various Italian universities . Among other things, he wrote as a freelance journalist for the weekly newspaper Der Standpunkt in Meran.

University professor and translator

In 1958 he was appointed Associate Professor for Comparative Literature at the University of Mainz. In 1959 he became a full professor there. In 1962 he followed a call to the University of Bonn for a corresponding chair. After the war he tried to restore the subject of comparative literary studies in the Federal Republic. One of the central topics of literary research for Rüdiger was translation. In addition to his work as a university teacher, he worked as a master translator who was passionate about translating difficult ancient meters into the German language. For example, he himself translated Greek poetry and was the editor of several translations of ancient literature. For him, every translation also meant stylization. Rüdiger was the founder and until his death editor of the magazine arcadia , which he started in the winter of 1965/1966. It was the first German specialist journal for comparative literature. It initially appeared with the subtitle "Journal for Comparative Literature". In 1975 Rüdiger was honored with the commemorative publication Participation and Reflection . For several years he wrote for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . In 1980 he received the Winckelmann Medal . Since 1961 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt . He died at the age of 76 in South Tyrol , where he last lived.

Publications

  • The golden donkey. Apuleius . Transferred by August Rode . Ed. U. Follow-up by Horst Rüdiger. Zurich: Manesse-Verl. 5th edition 1994.
  • Goethe and Europe . De Gruyter, 1990
  • Socrates is not Socrates . 1975. Artemis, Zurich 1983, 3rd edition.
  • Ways to Comparative Statistics . De Gruyter, Berlin 1983
  • And stay my friend . Artemis, Zurich 1983, 3rd edition.
  • Participation and reflection . De Gruyter, Berlin 1975
  • Masterpieces of world literature . Winkler, Munich 1974
  • The genres in comparative literature . De Gruyter, Berlin 1974
  • Comparative studies . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1973
  • Literature and poetry . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1973
  • On the theory of comparative literary studies . De Gruyter, Berlin 1971
  • Introduction to modern German literary studies . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1968, 4th ed.
  • Ancient letters . Zurich: Artemis, 2nd ext. 1965 edition. (The Library of the Old World. Series of Collections and Anthologies.)
  • Winckelmann's death. The original reports . Insel Verlag, Wiesbaden 1959 ( Insel-Bücherei 695/1)
  • Winckelmann and Italy . Scherpe, Krefeld 1956
  • The third humanism (1937). In: Hans Oppermann (Ed.), Humanism . WBG, Ways of Research, Vol. XVII, Darmstadt 1970, pp. 206-223
  • Nature and transformation of humanism. Hamburg 1937
Translations (selection)
  • Horace : De arte poetica liber . The poetry. Latin a. German. Introduction, transl. And Explanation by Horst Rüdiger. Zurich: Artemis-Verl. 1961.
  • Greek poems . Heimeran Verl., S. l. 1936, 2nd ed .; Herrsching: Pawlak [1981]
  • Greek lyric poet . Greek a. German. Edited by Karl Hoenn. Transferred, introduced by Horst Ruediger. [1949]. Zurich: Artemis, 2nd new edit. 1968 edition
  • Latin poems . With transfers German poet. Ed. Horst Rüdiger. Herrsching: Pawlak [1981]

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Rüdiger: Sappho. Your reputation and fame with posterity . Dieterich, Leipzig 1933.
  2. ^ A b Arcadia - International Journal for Literary Studies / International Journal for Literary Studies. Volume 19, 1984, Issues 1-3, page 333.
  3. ^ Arcadia - International Journal for Literary Studies. Volume 1, 1966, issue 1.
  4. ^ Beda Allemann and Erwin Koppen (eds.): Participation and mirroring - Festschrift for Horst Rüdiger . De Gruyter, Berlin 1975.
  5. ^ Obituary, in: Die Zeit of November 16, 1984, No. 47.

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personal data
SURNAME Rüdiger, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor; Full professor at the University of Bonn
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Geringswalde
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1984
Place of death Partschins