Kurt Jackel

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Kurt Jäckel (born February 21, 1904 in Breslau ; † June 29, 1937 in Bern ) was a German Romanist .

life and work

Jäckel first studied natural sciences and mathematics in Breslau , then Romance studies with Carl Appel , Hermann Breuer, Rudolf Palgen and above all Fritz Neubert . At Neubert he received his doctorate in French literature in 1931 with Richard Wagner . Because of his marriage in the same year to the Jewess Hilde Jadassohn (daughter of the dermatologist Josef Jadassohn and also doctorate in Romance studies in 1932) the Nazis made a career impossible for him. He lost the assistant position at Fritz Neubert and the opportunity to do his habilitation. Jäckel went with his wife and parents-in-law to his brother-in-law in Zurich and received his habilitation in 1936 with the support of Theophil Spoerri and Jakob Jud from the University of Zurich (Habilitation thesis: Bergson und Proust. An investigation into the ideological foundations of A la recherche du temps perdu , Breslau 1934 ). He taught in Zurich in the summer semester of 1936 and in the winter semester of 1936/37. Jackel died of severe kidney disease at the age of 33.

Other works

  • Richard Wagner in French literature. Vol. I: General introduction and Die Lyrik , Breslau 1931. Vol. II: The prose, especially the novel , Breslau 1932. Vol. III: Das Drama (never published)
  • Hippolyte Taine , in: Archive for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures 170, 1936, pp. 68–90
  • Paul Morand and the renewal of exoticism in contemporary French literature , in: Journal for French Language and Literature 60, 1937, pp. 344–377

literature

  • Susanne Strobach-Brillinger: Kurt Jäckel (1904-1937). Memory of an expelled Romanist , in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft , Tübingen 1994, pp. 529–538 ( online )
  • Hilde Jäckel: The Englishman in the Mirror of French Literature from Romanticism to World War I , Breslau 1932
personal data
SURNAME Jackel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1937
Place of death Bern