Ignace Firelight

Ignace Feuerlicht (born August 8, 1907 in Austria , † June 18, 1994 in New York City ) was an American German scholar and literary historian of Austrian origin.

Life

Feuerlicht studied at the University of Lyon from 1930 to 1931 . In 1932 he was at the University of Vienna to Dr. phil. PhD. Further studies took him to Columbia University in New York City, New York University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. From 1932 to 1938 he taught French and German at a secondary school in Vienna and from 1938 to 1939 he was a German teacher at the École normal supérieure in Seine . From 1943 to 1946 he was a teacher in New York and New Jersey. From 1946 to 1947 he was then Assistant Professor of German at Sampson Community College and from 1947 to 1957 at the State University of New York in New Paltz. In 1957 he became a professor of German and French. He published u. a. in The German Quarterly and Modern Language Quarterly and researched and published on Thomas Mann .

Thomas Mann and the limits of the self . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1966.
From the origin of love. In: Rudolf Baehr (Ed.): The Provencal Minnesang. A cross-section through the recent research discussion. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1967, pp. 263-302.
Thomas Mann . Twayne Publishers, New York 1968.
Alienation. From the past to the future . Greenwood Press, Westport 1978.

Robert Cecil Cook (Ed.): Who's who in American education: A biographical dictionary of eminent living educators of the United States . Volume 13, Nashville 1948, p. 364.
Clare D. Kinsman (Ed.): Contemporary authors, permanent series. A bio-bibliographical guide to current authors and their works . Gale, Detroit 1994, ISBN 0-8103-0037-0 , p. 189.

personal data
SURNAME	Firelight, Ignace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American German studies scholar and literary historian of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Austria
DATE OF DEATH	June 18, 1994
Place of death	New York City