Katharina Mommsen

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Katharina Mommsen (2012)

Katharina Mommsen (born September 18, 1925 in Berlin as Katharina Zimmer) is a German-American literary scholar . Together with her husband Momme Mommsen , she devoted herself particularly to Goethe research.

Life

Katharina Mommsen attended the Gertraudenschule in Berlin-Dahlem and the Cecilienschule in Berlin-Wilmersdorf from 1935 to 1943 . From 1943 to 1948 she then studied history, art history, philosophy and philology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the University of Mainz for nine semesters .

Katharina Mommsen, who had been married to Momme Mommsen since 1948, received her doctorate in 1956 from the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on Goethe and 1001 Nights and completed her habilitation in 1962 at the Free University of Berlin .

Since 1963 she has given lectures around the world with a special focus on Islamic countries. From 1965 to 1973 she was a (visiting) professor at the University of Giessen , the State University of New York at Buffalo , the Free University of Berlin , the Carleton University in Ottawa and the University of California in San Diego. From 1974 Mommsen was Professor of German Studies at Stanford University , California , where she taught until 1992.

From 1975 to 1980 she was Vice President of the IVG (International Association for Germanic Linguistics and Literature). Katharina Mommsen has been editor of the Germanic Studies in America series since 1978 ; from 1978 to 1982 she was co-editor of German Studies Review . In 1980 she became an American citizen. In 1985 Katharina Mommsen received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class , and in 1999 the Goethe Society Weimar awarded the Golden Goethe Medal. In 2000 she founded the Mommsen Foundation for the Advancement of Goethe Research together with her husband, who died in 2001. Katharina Mommsen is an honorary member of various Goethe societies. Since 1980 she has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt . She is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . 2010 The Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works

Mommsen is the author of literary books and articles. Since 1958 she and her husband have published the basic work The Origin of Goethe's Works in Documents by Walter de Gruyter in Berlin & New York, Volume III (Diderot - Entoptische Farben) was published in 2005, Volume IV (Originating - Theory of Colors) in 2008, Volume V. (Fastnachtsspiel - Faust) 2017, Volume VI (Feradeddin - Gypsabgüsse) 2010, Volume VII (Hackert - Indian Seals) 2015, Volume VIII

  • Goethe and 1001 nights . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1960. (Book edition of the Diss. Phil. Tübingen, 1956)
    • Various new editions, most recently: Bernstein-Verlag, Gebr. Remmel; Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-9809762-9-7 .
  • Goethe and the Moallakat . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1961. ( digitized version)
  • Goethe and Diez. Source research on poems of the Divan epoch . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1961.
  • Nature and fabulous realms in Faust II . De Gruyter, Berlin 1968.
  • Social criticism from Fontane and Thomas Mann . Literature and History, Volume 10. Stiehm, Heidelberg 1973.
  • Kleist's fight with Goethe . Poetry and Science, 27. Stiehm, Heidelberg 1974.
  • Hofmannsthal and Fontane . Stanford German Studies, 15. Lang, Bern 1978, ISBN 3-261-03109-3 .
  • Goethe and the Arab world. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-458-14624-5 .
  • Goethe. The art of living . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1999.
  • Goethe and Islam . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-458-34350-4 .
  • Goethe's Art of Living . Trafford Publishing, Victoria, Canada. 2003, ISBN 1-4120-0339-3 (translation by Goethe. The art of life , 1999).
  • Goethe's view of the Arab world . Shorouk Intl., Cairo, Egypt 2004, ISBN 977-09-1123-2 .
  • Texts and contexts. How the creation of Goethe's works came about and is created . Private print, Berlin 2006.
  • The origin of Goethe's works in documents. Volume I (Abaldemus - Byron) Berlin-New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2006.
  • The origin of Goethe's works in documents. Volume II (Cäcilia - Poetry and Truth) Berlin-New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2006.
  • The origin of Goethe's works in documents. Volume III (Diderot - Entoptic Colors) Berlin-New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2006.
  • The origin of Goethe's works in documents. Editing by P. Ludwig and U. Hentschel. Volume IV (Origin - Color Theory) Berlin-New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
  • No means of life but love. Schiller's and Goethe's alliance as reflected in their poems . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010.
  • Goethe and the old Fritz . Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-942473-47-7 .
  • The origin of Goethe's works in documents. Volume VII (Hackert - Indian Seals) Berlin-New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2015.
  • The origin of Goethe's works in documents. Volume VI (Feradeddin - Gypsum casts) Berlin-New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2017.
  • The origin of Goethe's works in documents. Volume V (Fastnachtsspiel - Faust) Berlin-New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Mommsen, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmer, Katharina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin