Karl Oscar Bertling

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Karl Oscar Bertling before 1930

Karl Oscar Bertling (born April 21, 1875 in Bonn , † March 17, 1952 in Berlin ) was a German philologist and Americanist .

Life

After studying in Göttingen, Halle, Bonn and at Harvard University (there MA ), Bertling did his doctorate with Eugen Kühnemann at the University of Breslau with "Studies on the Philosophy of Ermerson ". Almost immediately afterwards he joined the America Institute in Berlin, which had just opened (1910) . The First World War surprised him in America, where he was interned as an enemy alien after the USA entered the war in 1917 . When he was able to return to Germany in 1919, he was entrusted with the management of the America Institute that same year . In 1919/20 he represented the American department in the press department of the Reich government. In 1940 he retired. His position as senior assistant was given to Rudolf Böhringer , a student of Friedrich Schönemann .

Bertling was a member and board member of numerous organizations, such as the German Academy , the German Society , the Association of Germans Abroad (America Department ), the PEN Club and the Rotary Club .

literature

  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , pp. 406 f.
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Death register Berlin-Zehlendorf No. 410 from March 18, 1952
  2. ^ Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , April 15, 1945
  3. ^ Christian H. Freitag: The development of American studies in Berlin until 1945, taking into account the American work of state and private organizations . Diss., Berlin 1977, passim about KO Bertling
  4. ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : English and American Studies in the “Third Reich” . Vittorio Klostermann, 2003, p. 193 f., Books.google.de
personal data
SURNAME Bertling, Karl Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and Americanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1952
Place of death Berlin