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Ilse Hempel Lipschutz (born Ilse Hempel on August 19, 1923 in Bönnigheim ; died on June 22, 2005 in Poughkeepsie ) was an American Romance scholar.
Life
Ilse Hempel was a daughter of Joseph Hempel and Fanny Würzburger, her older sister Marion wanted to become a doctor. After the Nuremberg Laws were passed , the family was turned away by the Swiss authorities, even though the father had a work permit for Switzerland, and the family fled to France in 1936. In 1944 they managed to escape to Spain, from where they emigrated to the USA after the end of the war in 1946.
From 1933 Ilse Hempel attended a grammar school in Konstanz, from 1936 to 1941 the Lycée Victor-Duruy in Paris and studied Romance studies at the Sorbonne . She received the Diplôme Français à l'Etranger in 1943, the License ès Lettres in 1944 and the Diplom Etudes supérieures. In Spain, she graduated from the Diploma de Estudios Hispánicos in 1946. In the USA she studied from 1947 to 1951 at Radcliffe College , where she worked as a teaching fellow. She received an MA in 1948 and a PhD from Harvard University in 1957. She married the engineer Lewis Drucker Lipschutz in 1952 and they had four children.
Hempel Lipschutz worked from 1951 at Vassar College , Poughkeepsie , until 1958 as an instructor for French, until 1963 as an assistant professor, until 1972 as an associate professor and then as a professor. In 1992 she retired.
Hempel Lipschutz's main research interests were painting and literature in France and Spain in the 19th century; she published on Goya, Murillo and Gautier. After Spain she received invitations to research stays and lectures at the Museo del Prado , at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo , at the Fundación Ramón Areces, Madrid, and at the Universidad Complutense . Since 1986 she has been a board member of Société Théophile Gautier in Paris.
Fonts (selection)
- The Discovery of Spanish Painting in Early Nineteenth Century France . Dissertation 1958
- El despojo de obras de arte en España durante la Guerra de la Independecia . Madrid, 1961
- Spanish Painting and the French Romantics . Harvard Studies in Romance Languages. Cambridge, Mass., 1972
- María de los Santos García Felguera: La fortuna de Murillo . Employee Ilse Hempel Lipschutz. Seville: Diputación Provincial de Sevilla, 1989
literature
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 736
Web links
- Literature by and about Ilse Hempel Lipschutz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Ilse Lipschutz , with Romanists
- Ilse Hempel Lipschutz , at Prabook
- Christine Reno: The History of French and Francophone Studies at Vassar College , near Vassar, 2011. With a photo of Hempel Lipschutz from 1979 (note copyrights).
- Paid Notice: Deaths Lipschutz, Ilse Hempel , NYT, June 26, 2005
Individual evidence
- ^ Marion Hempel Biesemeyer (1911-2012) , obituary, in Press-Republican , June 3, 2012. Marion Biesemeyer received an honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 2001.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hempel Lipschutz, Ilse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lipschutz, Ilse Hempel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance philologist of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bönnigheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 2005 |
| Place of death | Poughkeepsie |