Karl August Weber (English studies)

August Karl Weber (born January 15, 1895 in Essen , † October 7, 1955 in Tübingen ) was a German English student . After a stay in England (1924) he called himself Carl August Weber. The spelling Karl August Weber was also used.

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After attending school and high school ( war Graduate ) 1914 in Paderborn Karl August made Weber military service and was until 1920 in Russian captivity. From 1920 to 1927 he studied German at the Universities of Cologne and Göttingen . The doctorate took place in 1926 in Göttingen, the state examination in 1927. From 1927 to 1929 Weber was Assistant Lecturer at the German Department of the University of Sheffield , then scientific assistant in Göttingen. In 1935 he completed his habilitation in English philology with Hans Hecht and taught as a private lecturer . From the winter semester 1936/37 he took over the representation of the chair for English language and literature at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and was appointed to this chair in 1938. From 1940 to 1942 he was dean of the philosophy faculty. On July 5, 1945, he was dismissed from teaching as part of the denazification and had to leave Tübingen. He was reinstated as a teacher at the beginning of the winter semester 1949/50.

His successor on the chair was Gerhard Müller-Schwefe (1914-2010).

Fonts

• Educational ideal and educational problems of England and Scotland , publ. "University and foreign countries", Charlottenburg 1925 (writings of the German student body. New series).
• The poet of Heliand in relation to his sources , Dieterich, Göttingen 1927 (dissertation).
• Bristol's importance for English romanticism and German-English relations , Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1935 (Studies in English Philology, Volume 89) (Habilitation thesis).
• Basic features of English foreign policy. In: Annual volumes of the Scientific Academy of the NSD-Dozentbund, Volume 1 (1937/1939), pp. 309–327.
• (as ed.): The English cultural ideology , two volumes, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1941/1943.
• (as ed.): Language and literature of England and America. Course lectures of the Comburg Academy , two volumes, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1952/1956.
• German-English cultural encounters. In: Die Neueren Sprachen, NF, 1953, pp. 312–326.
• On the educational value of English culture . In: Franz Arnold (Ed.): Educational questions of our time. [ Presented to Theodor Bäuerle by his friends and colleagues on his 70th birthday on June 16, 1952] , Klotz, Stuttgart 1953, pp. 140-164 (2nd edition 1956).

Literature / sources

• Elisabeth Hauser: Der Tübingen Anglist Carl August Weber (1895–1955) , LIT, Münster 2007 (English and American Studies, Volume 27), ISBN 978-3-8258-0347-6 .
• Gerhard Müller-Schwefe : Carl August Weber. In: Anglia. Journal of English Philology, Vol. 73 (1955), pp. 539-540.
• Gerhard Müller Schwefe : From language master to professor. The history of the English seminar at the University of Tübingen, Attempto-Verlag, Tübingen 2006, p. 35 f. and 42 f., ISBN 978-3-89308-388-6 .