Jurij Striedter

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Jurij Striedter (born January 18, 1926 in Novgorod , † June 21, 2016 in Tampa , Florida) was a Slavist and comparativeist . With his textbook on Russian formalism and his introductory foreword to the concepts it contains, he became the most important mediator of Eastern European literary theories in German-speaking countries.

Life

Striedter received his doctorate in German and philosophy in Heidelberg and then studied Slavic studies at the Sorbonne . From 1961 to 1966 he held the Slavic professorship at the Free University of Berlin . As holder of the chair for Slavic Studies at the University of Konstanz (1967–1976), he belonged to the core of the research group " Poetics and Hermeneutics " alongside Hans Robert Jauß and Wolfgang Iser . From 1977 to 1993 he was Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages ​​and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University .

In 1970/71 he was chairman of the Association of University Lecturers for Slavic Studies , and from 1981 to 1983 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . Visiting professorships led him a. a. to Yale University , Columbia University and the University of Zurich . In 1983 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • The picaresque novel in Russia: A contribution to the history of the Russian novel before Gogol , Berlin 1961
  • (Ed.), Russian Formalism. Texts on general literary theory and on the theory of prose , Munich ( Wilhelm Fink Verlag ) 1969 (5th, unaltered edition, Munich 1994 [UTB 40])
  • Poetry and history at Puškin , Konstanz (University Press ) 1977
  • Literary Structure, Evolution, and Value: Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism Reconsidered , Cambridge (Harvard UP) 1989

As editor:

  • Texts by the Russian formalists. Vol. 1. Texts on general literary theory and on the theory of prose . With an introductory essay edited by Jurij Striedter, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1969

literature

  • George Ivask: Review by Jurij Striedter: The picaresque novel in Russia (Berlin 1961) . In: Slavic Review, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Dec., 1962), pp. 775-776
  • Walter Arndt: Review by Jurij Striedter: Russian formalism. Texts on general literary theory and on the theory of prose (Munich 1969) . In: Russian Review , Vol. 29, No. 4 (Oct. 1970), pp. 475-476

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renewer of Literary Studies on fu-berlin.de, June 24, 2016, accessed on July 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Striedter, Jurij
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Novgorod
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2016
Place of death Tampa , Florida