Leiva Petersen

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Leiva Konstanze Petersen (born November 28, 1912 in Berlin ; † April 17, 1992 in Weimar ) was a German classical philologist and publisher.

Life

Leiva Petersen was the elder of two daughters of the historian Carl Petersen and his wife Ida Minna (Minnie), b. Robber (* 1882). The general superintendent Peter Friedrich Petersen was her grandfather. She studied classical philology , history and archeology at the universities in Frankfurt (Main) , Munich , Kiel and Würzburg . In 1937 she received her doctorate from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a thesis on the history of the personification in Greek poetry and fine arts . This was followed by an educational trip to Italy and a short time as a tutor in Denmark. In 1939 she began an apprenticeship as a bookseller with Hermann Böhlaus successor . In 1942 she became the director and limited partner of the publishing house. She remained in this position until the end of her career. In 1946 she received one of the first private licenses from SMAD , and in 1947 she became a personally liable partner. It was one of the last independent publishers in the GDR until the 1980s, when they sold it to the GDR Academy of Sciences in 1978 . Until 1983 she continued to manage the publishing house as a department head for this publishing house in the academy. Petersen has been in charge of a wide variety of projects since 1940, such as the publication of Goethe's natural science writings suggested by Karl Lothar Wolf , classics of the Reformation period and the German Classical period, as well as Friedrich Schiller and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing . Petersen was considered a colorful personality in GDR science.

In addition to managing the publishing house, Petersen also held half a position as a classical philologist at the Academy of Sciences from 1961 to 1972, where she was senior assistant. There she worked, among other things, on the publication of several volumes of the Prosopographia Imperii Romani . In 1980 she received the Leibniz Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, in 1982 she was awarded the Golden Goethe Medal of the Goethe Society in Weimar , and in 1986 the Reuchlin Prize of the City of Pforzheim . She was a member of the administrative committee of the Schiller National Edition and the committee of the German Schiller Society . She was a member of the board of directors of the Shakespeare Society and the publishers' committee of the German Booksellers Association .

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  1. ↑ Achim Aurnhammer, Wolfgang Braungart, Stefan Breuer, Ute Oelmann (eds.): Stefan George and his circle: A manual. Berlin: de Gruyter 2016 ISBN 9783110456882 , p. 1578
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from November 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.goethe-gesellschaft.de/gesellschaft/180.html
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from April 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Leiva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Leiva Konstanze (full name); Petersen, Leiva C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1992
Place of death Weimar