Karl Menges

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Karl Richard Menges (born January 7, 1941 in Marnheim , Palatinate , † January 10, 2018 in Davis , California ) was a German German studies scholar, author, literary scholar and university professor.

Life

Karl Menges - Richard Menges' only son - was the last male descendant of the Menges family of sculptors from Kaiserslautern . He grew up in Kaiserslautern and was already interested in literature as a high school student. Unlike his ancestors, he studied at the Universities of Heidelberg , Hamburg and Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1969 phil. received his doctorate .

His academic focus was on German classical literature, German philosophy, and German politics and history. As early as 1971 he was appointed to the USA as professor of German studies at the University of California in Davis / Sacramento , after having taught at the University of Idaho a year earlier .

In 2003 Karl Menges retired and published numerous scientific papers in the following years, including his lectures, which he had presented as a visiting professor for German Studies at European universities (for example at the University of Stirling / Scotland, in Göttingen or Düsseldorf ). Karl Menges dealt among other things with the work of Johann Gottfried Herder . In 2018 he was posthumously awarded the Herder Medal of the International Herder Society.

Fonts (selection)

  • Critical studies on Hermann Broch's philosophy of values. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1970
  • Broch research. Reflections on the method and problematic of a literary reception process (with W. Freese). Munich: Fink Verlag 1977
  • AXIA. Davis Symposium on Literary Evaluation. (Ed. With D. Rancour-Laferriere). Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag 1981
  • The private and the political. Comments on student literature, on Handke, Celan and Grass. Stuttgart: Academic Publishing House 1987
  • Johann Gottfried Herder Selected Early Works, 1764–1767. (Ed. With E. Menze). University Park: Penn State Press 1992
  • Emerging Structures in Interdisciplinary Perspective (Ed. With R. Keller). Tübingen: Francke Verlag 1997
  • Literature and history. Festschrift for Wulf Koepke on his 70th birthday. (Ed.). Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi Publishers 1998
  • Herder Yearbook (co-editor). Vol. I-3, Columbia: Camden House; Vols. II-VI, Stuttgart: Metzler; Vol. VII-XI, Heidelberg: Synchron; 1992-2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary , accessed January 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Menges, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menges, Karl R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Marnheim
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2018
Place of death Davis , California