Horst W. Drescher

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Horst W. Drescher (born January 30, 1932 in Bad Reichenhall as Horst Wilhelm Drescher; † July 13, 2013 in Bellheim ) was a German Anglicist whose research focus was on English and, above all, Scottish literature. He was a professor at the Institute for English, American and Anglophony at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Life

Horst W. Drescher studied English , Romance studies , philosophy and education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg and Philipps University Marburg . After completing his doctorate on the early Victorian Robert Smith Surtees at the University of Marburg with Horst Oppelhe became a lecturer in English at the same university. In 1969 he wrote his habilitation thesis on topics and forms of the periodic essay in the late 18th century and in the same year became a full professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim. There he advocated the transition from the international and interpreting institute to the applied linguistics department and the conception of the eight-semester course that was introduced in 1977. He was dean and an elected member of the university's Senate and Budget Committee. His research focuses on literature and socio-cultural context, Scottish literary and intellectual history, contemporary English literature and literary translations. In 1984 he received the Robert Bruce Award for Outstanding Service to Scottish Studies from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia .

Offices and memberships

  • Founder and Head of Research Department Scottish Studies Center
  • Honorary Chairman of the Saltire Society
  • Vice President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies
  • Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities ( University of Edinburgh )
  • Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Scottish Studies ( University of Glasgow )
  • Member of the Carlyle Society

Publications (selection)

  • Henry Mackenzie: Letters to Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock. On Literature, Events and People 1768-1815. Münster: Aschendorff 1967
  • Topics and forms of the periodical essay in the late 18th century: Research on the Scottish weeklies "The Mirror" and "The Lounger". Frankfurt: Athenaeum 1971
  • "British Literature." World of Literature since 1945: Critical Surveys of the Contemporary Literatures of Europe and the Americas. Ed. Ivar Ivask and Gero v. Wilpert. New York: Frederick Ungar 1973, pp. 65-121
  • together with Rüdiger Ahrens , Karl-Heinz Stoll : Lexicon of English Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 465). Kröner, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-520-46501-9 .
  • Ed. Together with Hermann Völkel: Nationalism in Literature - Literarischer Nationalismus: Literature, Language and National Identity. Third International Scottish Studies Symposium, Proceedings. Scottish Studies 8. Frankfurt / Bern / New York / Paris: Lang 1989
  • Literature and Literati. The Literary Correspondence and Notebooks of Henry Mackenzie. Vol. I: Letters 1766-1827. Scottish Studies 5. Frankfurt / Bern / New York / Paris: Lang 1989

literature

  • Joachim Schwend, Susanne Hagemann, Hermann Völkel (eds.): Literature in context: Festschrift for Horst W. Drescher = Literature in context. Vol. 14. Frankfurt: Lang 1992, ISBN 3-631-44268-8
  • Horst W. Drescher (Ed.): Transfer: Translate - Interpreting - Interculturality. 50 years of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim. Frankfurt / Bern / New York / Paris: Lang 1997, ISBN 3-631-31881-2

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personal data
SURNAME Drescher, Horst W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drescher, Horst Wilhelm (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English studies and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Reichenhall
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 2013
Place of death Bellheim