Levin Ludwig Schücking

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Levin Ludwig Schücking, painting by Bernhard Pankok , 1899.

Levin Ludwig Schücking (born May 29, 1878 in Steinfurt ; † October 12, 1964 in Farchant ) was a German English scholar and Shakespeare researcher .

Life

Schücking is a grandson of Levin Schücking and came from a family of lawyers and scholars who had lived in the Münsterland for centuries. He was the brother of the politician and international lawyer Walther Schücking (1875-1935) and the Husum mayor, lawyer and writer Lothar Engelbert Schücking (1873-1943).

Born in Burg- Steinfurt as the son of the district judge Carl Lothar Levin Schücking and his wife Luise Wilhelmine Amalie, née. Beitzke (a daughter of Heinrich Ludwig Beitzke ) the family moved to Münster during his childhood . There he attended the Paulinum grammar school and graduated from high school .

Schücking studied English and Romance philology as well as art history in Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin , Munich and Göttingen . In 1901 he received his doctorate in Göttingen. This was followed by a study visit to England . In 1902 he returned to Münster to be 1904 in Göttingen for English Language and Literature habilitation .

During his time in Göttingen, through his brother Walther Schücking, who was studying there, he came into contact with Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen and together with him founded the “Akademie” student group, which made Göttingen a focal point of literary life , just as it was in the times of the Göttingen Hainbund . Together they published the Göttingen Musenalmanach .

Lulu von Strauss and Torney , Agnes Miegel , Ludwig Finckh , Bernard Wieman and Carl Bulcke belonged to the circle of friends of this time . His friendship with Börries von Münchhausen in particular lasted until his death in 1945 and also included families. The lifelong correspondence was published by his daughter Beate E. Schücking.

Schücking received professorships in Jena from 1910 and Breslau from 1916. He declined calls to Graz, Bern and Cologne. On August 3, 1912, he married Elisabeth Gerke, who had been studying English with him in Jena, and had four children with her: Ursula, Beate E., Luise and Adrian.

In 1925, he was the most important German Anglist at the time and succeeded Max Förster as professor of English language and literature in Leipzig.

The study guide of the University of Leipzig says about him:

“He gained international recognition with his cultural-historical-sociological review of literature, especially with the book“ The Sociology of Literary Taste Education (1923) ”. His most important research is devoted to Old English literature, Shakespeare, all of whose works Schücking published in his early years in Leipzig, and Puritanism in England. "

Levin Ludwig Schücking developed into the leading German Shakespeare researcher of his time. His wife Elisabeth worked as a translator on many of the works he published. After the National Socialists came to power, Schücking signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler .

In the study guide of the University of Leipzig, however, you can read about Schücking during the time of National Socialism:

“During the Nazi regime, Levin Ludwig Schücking was increasingly exposed to political reprisals because of his consistently pacifist stance. It is thanks to Schücking's international recognition and the protest of the Leipzig Faculty of Philosophy that the dismissal intended by the Dresden Ministry of National Education in 1933 could not be achieved. However, he was spied on, removed from all faculty commissions and no longer allowed to hold state exams. "

In 1944 he retired at his own request, moved to Farchant in Upper Bavaria and after the war took over the professorship for English studies at the University of Erlangen . From 1927 he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig , initially a full member and from 1946 a corresponding member. In 1949 he was elected a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Without pension payments from Leipzig, which is in the GDR, he became a Bavarian state official for one semester as a full professor of English philology in 1951, only to be finally retired in 1952. He then held a teaching position at the University of Munich until 1957/58 .

Works

  • 1898: The Summer King. A narrative poem, Göttingen
  • 1901: Studies on the material relationships of English comedy to Italian to Lilly, Halle
  • 1904: The basics of sentence linking in Beowulf, Halle
  • 1905: Beowulf's return. A critical study, Halle
  • 1908: (arr.) Beowulf. With a detailed glossary, ed. by Moritz Heyne, 8th edition, Paderborn
  • 1908: The swapped shepherds. Schäferspiel, Heidelberg
  • 1908: Shakespeare in the literary judgment of his time, Heidelberg
  • 1909: Ballads and Songs, Berlin
  • 1915: Studies on the doctrine of meaning of the Anglo-Saxon poetic language, Heidelberg
  • 1915: The English national character, Jena, Stuttgart, Leipzig
  • 1919: Shakespeare's character problems. An introduction to the dramatist's understanding, Leipzig
  • 1923: The sociology of literary taste formation, Munich
  • 1927: Basic lines of a bibliography for studying English philology, Dresden
  • 1927: English Literature in the Middle Ages, Potsdam
  • 1929: The family in Puritanism. Studies on family and literature in England in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, Leipzig, Berlin
  • 1929: The Puritan Family from a literary-sociological perspective, Bern, Munich
  • 1931: On the problem of the transmission of the Hamlet text, Leipzig
  • 1931: A Shakespeare Bibliography, together with Walter Ebisch, Oxford
  • 1932: German reader, together with Elisabeth Schücking (= Harrap's Modern Language Series), London
  • 1933: Heroic pride and dignity in Anglo-Saxon. With an appendix: On the characterization technique in Beowulfepos, Leipzig
  • 1935: The sense of Hamlet. Work of art, plot, tradition, Leipzig
  • 1938: The baroque character of the Elizabethan tragic hero. Annual Shakespeare lecture of the British Academy 1938, London
  • 1940: (Ed.) Francis Bacon Essays, Leipzig
  • 1941: (Ed.) Annette von Droste in her letters (= Insel-Bücherei 312), Leipzig
  • 1942: (Eds.) Levin Schücking, Annette von Droste. A picture of life, Stuttgart
  • 1947: Shakespeare and the tragic style of his time, Bern
  • 1948: Essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Rossette, Shaw and others, Wiesbaden
  • 1948: Chatting with Lothar Engelbert, Bamberg
  • 1954: Gulliver's journey to the good horses, from a taste history perspective, Munich
  • 1956: English poems from seven centuries, Leipzig
  • 1963: On the authorship of the Spanish Tragedy, Munich
  • 1964: The Puritan Family from a literary-sociological perspective, Bern
  • 2008: Self-portrait and poetry, Bielefeld (edited from the estate)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the SAW: Levin Ludwig Schücking. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 1, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schücking, Levin Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English and Shakespeare researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinfurt
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1964
Place of death Farchant