Karl Josef Höltgen

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Karl Josef Höltgen (born November 2, 1927 in Haan , Rhineland ; † August 25, 2011 in Erlangen ) was a German literary scholar and university professor .

Life

After the Second World War, Höltgen gained access to the course through his work in the Bonn student construction team. He studied German , English and philosophy in Bonn and Leicester . In Bonn he began his academic career as a university lecturer. He received his doctorate there in 1958 on Else Lasker-Schüler's poetry.

From 1968 to 1996 he was a full professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . There he held the chair for English literature and English philology . Höltgen was several times a member of the Senate and from 1972 to 1973 dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Even after his retirement , Höltgen continued to work as a university lecturer and gave lectures .

Höltgen was Visiting Fellow of Linacre College of the University of Oxford and Clare Hall College of the University of Cambridge .

Höltgen was a founding member and 2nd chairman of the German-British Society Nuremberg (in the context of the founding of many German-British societies in Germany ) and was particularly committed to promoting town twinning , in particular between Erlangen and Stoke-on-Trent .

In recognition of his services to the German-British friendship and the German-British cultural relations in 1998 appointed him Queen Elizabeth II. To Officer of the Order of the British Empire .

Höltgen was married and had a son.

Research priorities

Höltgen's scientific interest was initially in the work of Else Lasker-Schüler . His Bonn dissertation from 1955 represented a new approach to the literary interpretation of the work of the Jewish poet. Especially in his analysis of the poem An old Tibetan carpet he drew attention to the importance of the carpet in Lasker-Schüler's complete works and made comparisons with other works by the German and European literature. For example, Höltgen names the poem Auf eine Lampe by Eduard Mörike , the famous poem Carpet of Life by Stefan George and John Keats ' Ode on a Grecian Urn as possible models .

In the field of English literature, Höltgen was particularly concerned with literature from the 16th century to the beginning of the 18th century. These included the works of John Milton , Robert Burton and the poems of the Metaphysical Poets . Höltgen was considered a specialist in emblematic literature and published, among other things, a study on Francis Quarles under the title Aspects of the Emblem .

Höltgen was an advisory co-editor of the DFG project “Complete Edition of the Works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury ” , led by Erwin Wolff . He published several books of his own and numerous scientific articles, mainly on English poetry.

In 1999 he received the "Albert W. Fields Award" from the American magazine Explorations in Renaissance Culture for the best article of 1998; his article Clever Dogs and Nimble Spaniels : Invention and Imagination also contained illustrations, some of which came from the old holdings of the University Library Erlangen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Investigations into the poetry of Else Lasker-Schüler's curriculum vitae, Karl Josef Höltgen, p. 155 (excerpts from Google Books)
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Höltgen on his 75th birthday Communication from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg dated October 25, 2002
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Karl Josef Höltgen on the occasion of his 80th birthday Communication from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg dated October 25, 2007
  4. ↑ An old Tibetan carpet  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Freiburg anthology - poetry and song@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lyrik-und-lied.de  
  5. ↑ Gerhard F. Strasser / Mara R. Wade (eds.): The domains of the emblem: Extra-literary applications of the emblematics Review in: sehepunkte 5 (2005), No. 7/8
  6. ↑ Beyond the Book: The Emblem in Early Modern Culture - Beyond the Emblem Book: The Emblem in European Culture of the Early Modern Age ( Memento from July 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) AHF-Information No. 38 from June 17, 1999
  7. ↑ List of publications by Karl Josef Höltgen ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anglistik.phil.uni-erlangen.de
  8. ↑ Names in conversation. In: Erlanger Nachrichten of April 6, 1999. Page 1.
personal data
SURNAME Höltgen, Karl Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Haan , Rhineland
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2011
Place of death gain