Lieselotte Blumenthal

Lieselotte Blumenthal (born September 30, 1906 in Bielefeld , † October 27, 1992 in Leipzig ) was a German Germanist with the research area of ​​classical German literary studies.

life and work

The daughter of the engineer Johannes Beuchelt and Ida Schröder studied art history, history, archeology and German in Tübingen and Hamburg from 1924. Here she was a student of Aby Warburg , Erwin Panofsky and Robert Petsch and passed the state examination in 1930. After her legal clerkship in 1932, she was a study assistant at a Hamburg private school until 1937. In the same year she became a member of the Goethe Society Weimar e. V. and thus embarked on a scientific career. Since 1939 she worked in Weimar in the vicinity of the Goethe-Schiller-Archive . When she was appointed editor of the Schiller National Edition in 1943 (from 1958 to 1978 as editor), the basis for her life's theme was laid. Blumenthal was elected a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig on December 5, 1960, after she had been appointed professor by the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin the year before .

Blumenthal married the librarian Hermann Blumenthal (1903–1941) in 1937 . She is the mother of the Egyptologist Elke Blumenthal .

Honors (selection)

• 1964 Goethe and Schiller plaque in gold from the National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature in Weimar
• Summer 1984 honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen
• November 1984 honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen

Publications (selection)

• Lieselotte Blumenthal, Erich Trunz: Goethe's works: Hamburg edition in 14 volumes . 14th edition. CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-08495-8 .
• Friedrich Schiller: Works. by Julius Petersen , continued by Lieselotte Blumenthal, ed. Commissioned by the Weimar Classic Foundation and the Schiller National Museum in Marbach by Norbert Oellers , National Edition , Volume 1, Weimar 1943.

literature

• Ulrich Karthaus : Laudation to Lieselotte Blumenthal on the occasion of the awarding of an honorary doctorate from the Department of German Studies on November 13, 1984. In: Gießener Universitätsblätter 18 (1985), Issue 1, pp. 73-76.
• Obituary in: Yearbook of the SAW 1991–1992, pp. 275–281.
• Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 207-208.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lieselotte Blumenthal in the catalog of the German National Library
• Profile at SAW
• Lieselotte Blumenthal in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors