Joachim Moras

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Joachim Moras (born December 9, 1902 in Zittau (Saxony), † March 25, 1961 in Munich ) was a German Romance scholar , journalist and translator .

From 1933 until its setting 1944 he published the journal European Revue out, he founded in 1947 with Hans Paeschke the Mercury . Journal for European Thinking , which he published together with Paeschke until 1961. He also edited the anthology Jahresring des Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft . Moras translated works by André Gide , among others .

Part of his estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Works

  • Origin and development of the concept of civilization in France 1756-1830. 1930
  • (with H. Paeschke): German spirit between yesterday and tomorrow. Balance of the cultural development since 1945 , 1954

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Partial estate and editorial archive of the Jahresring 1954-1961 (13 boxes, can only be viewed on site) at DLA Marbach.