Kurt Lewent

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Kurt Lewent (born March 13, 1880 in Berlin , † June 13, 1964 in New York City ) was a German Romanist and Provençalist .

life and work

Lewent did his doctorate at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin under Adolf Tobler on The Old Provencal Cross Song (Erlangen 1905, reprint Genève 1976). In 1906 he taught French on probation at the Werner Siemens Realgymnasium. He was accepted into the civil service in 1908 and was most recently a student councilor at Berlin high schools; in addition to his school service, he has been teaching at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin since the mid-1920s. Kurt Lewent was able to continue working as a teacher in 1933, as a so-called "front-line fighter" wounded in the First World War and at the same time as a teacher who had been a civil servant before 1914. In 1935, however, the newly appointed university dean Ludwig Bieberbach let Kurt Lewent know that he would no longer teach after the summer semester; With effect from the end of 1935, Kurt Lewent was retired early because of his Jewish faith and his Jewish descent due to the Reich Citizenship Act . Until 1939 - when the director emigrated to England - he taught at a private school run by his former student Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt at the Roseneck operated Jewish school in addition to French also English, German and geography. After Leonore Goldschmidt's emigration, Lewent took over the management of the Berlin Goldschmidt School until it closed, and then emigrated to Italy. In 1941 Kurt Lewent fled to New York via Siberia. Since he could not work as a teacher in America, he earned his living with office work in a law firm and pursued his academic work only in the context of a teaching assignment for Old Provençal, which Columbia University gave him.

Kurt Lewent's research and scientific working method were clearly shaped by his teacher and doctoral supervisor Adolf Tobler. He was generally recognized as an excellent connoisseur of Occitan trobadord poetry, who analyzed sentence structure and style context with the greatest philological accuracy in order to answer literary questions from this side. After his escape to New York, he published exclusively on ancient Provencal literature, which he was teaching at Columbia University.

Works (selection)

  • The old Provencal cross song inaugural dissertation 1905 Erlangen (reprint Geneva 1976).
  • Fragments of the Provencal Versroma "Flamenca", selected by Kurt Lewent in 1926 from Max Niemeyer Verlag.
  • Contribution to the understanding of the songs Marcabrus 1930 Max Niemeyer Verlag.
  • On the content and structure of the "Flamenca" 1933 Max Niemeyer Verlag.
  • On the text of the songs by Giraut de Bornelh 1938 LS Olschki.

Obituaries

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.esf.uni-osnabrueck.de
  2. ↑ Michael Grüttner among others: History of the University of Unter den Linden. Volume 2: The Berlin University between the World Wars 1918-1945 2012 Akademie Verlag p. 384 f.
  3. ^ Gertrud Thompson: Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt School (1935-1941). 2003 p. 26.
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.esf.uni-osnabrueck.de
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.esf.uni-osnabrueck.de

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personal data
SURNAME Lewent, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist and Provençalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1964
Place of death New York City