Liselotte Dieckmann

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Liselotte Dieckmann (born Neisser ; born October 31, 1902 in Frankfurt (Main) ; † October 28, 1994 in St. Louis , Missouri) was an American German scholar , comparative literary scholar and translator of German origin. She was the daughter of Emma Eleonore Neisser, nee Hallgarten, and Max Neisser (1869–1938), professor of bacteriology and hygiene at the university there. Her temporary husband was Herbert Dieckmann , a Romanist; they married in 1931 and were divorced around the turn of the year 1954/1955. Charles Hallgarten was her maternal grandfather.

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After graduating from the secondary school in her hometown, she studied German and Latin philology and philosophy in Freiburg from 1922 with Edmund Husserl , Otto Immisch and Ludwig Sütterlin ; 1923/1924 in Berlin German studies with Eduard Norden and Julius Petersen ; 1924/25 in Frankfurt with Hans Cornelius , Hans Naumann , Walter F. Otto , the Germanist Franz Schultz (1877–1950), the literary historian Karl Viëtor (1892–1951); From 1925 to 1927 in Heidelberg with Friedrich Gundolf , Karl Jaspers , the Graecist and Latinist Karl Meister (1880–1963) and the Germanist Friedrich Panzer (1870–1956).

She received her doctorate in 1927 on Christian Thomasius from the literary historian Max von Waldberg and after further studies in Cologne in 1930 she passed the state examination.

Because of her Jewish origins, she fled Germany in August 1933; her father had been released from service . With Herbert Dieckmann she first went to Rome, in September 1934 with the help of the Emergency Association of German Science Abroad under the leadership of Philipp Schwartz to Turkey to Istanbul. While her husband was a lecturer at the University of Istanbul , she worked as a lecturer for German and Greek at the foreign language school there through Leo Spitzer's mediation . In September 1938 both went to the USA.

From 1943 Liselotte Dieckmann worked for the Army specialized training program (ASTP) at Washington University in St. Louis, which became her intellectual and professional home. In 1944 she received US citizenship and became a French teacher at the Department of Romance Languages ​​and Literatures and in 1945 a member of the Department of Germanic Languages ​​and Literatures. From 1947 to 1952 she was Assistant Professor of German and from 1952 to 1958 Associated Professor in this subject. In 1956/1957 she became a Carnegie Fellow at Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut) , as a scholarship holder of the Carnegie Foundation, called "Carnegie international". From 1957 to 1967 she was Chair of the Committee on Comparative Literature at her University in St. Louis. From 1959 she was a professor of German; From 1963 to 1967 she was Chair at the Department of Germanic Languages ​​and Comparative Literature; In 1969 she became a Distinguished visiting Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder . In 1970 she became a Walker Ames Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1971 she retired.

During her most important creative period in the USA she taught English, French and German literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. She researched primarily on Goethe , Schlegel and the romantic poetry concept , especially their concept of symbols . She made significant contributions to comparative literature .

A small part of her estate can be found in the German Literature Archive in Marbach , the larger part in the University of St. Louis.

Honors

  • 1955/1956: Scholarship holder of a Guggenheim Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for German and Nordic literatures (her former husband Herbert Dieckmann had already received this award in 1948)
  • Member of Phi Beta Kappa
  • American Council of Learned Societies ACLS: Summer grant 1981
  • Washington University in St. Louis WUSL: Temporary Chapter President
    • The Liselotte Dieckmann Professorship in Arts & Sciences at the WUSL was first awarded in 2006 to Robert E. Hegel, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature
    • Up to 24 talented students in the “Lien Honorary Scholarship” program at the WUSL receive the Liselotte Dieckmann Scholarship , which finances half of the tuition fees (half-tuition) for four years.

Fonts

  • Rainer Maria Rilke's french poems. In: Modern Language Quarterly. Vol. 12, H. 3, 1951, pp. 320-336. ( Home page online )
  • Academic emigrants in Turkey. In: Egon Schwarz (Ed.): Banishment. Records of German writers from exile. Wegner, Hamburg 1964, pp. 122–126.
  • Hieroglyphics. The history of a literary symbol. WUP, St. Louis 1970.
  • On the image of man in the 18th century: Nathan the Wise , Iphigenia , The Magic Flute . In: Albert Richard Schmitt (Ed.): Festschrift for Detlev W. Schumann on his 70th birthday. Delp, Munich 1970, ISBN 3768900657 , pp. 89-96.
  • Goethe's " Faust ". A critical reading. Series: Comparative Literature Studies 7. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey 1972.
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe. New York 1974.
  • Introduction to: Critical Friedrich Schlegel Edition. Volume 33, Section 4: Editions, Translations, Reports. Schöningh, Paderborn 1980, ISBN 3506778331 .
  • ETA Hoffmann and Edgar Allan Poe . Related sensitivity in different linguistic and social areas. In: Victor Lange, Hans-Gert Roloff (Ed.): Poetry, Language, Society. Files from the 4th International Congress of German Studies in Princeton in 1970. Athenaeum, Frankfurt 1971, pp. 273-280.
  • Addendum to the article Jochen Schlobach : Enlightenment in dark times. Werner Krauss and Herbert Dieckmann. In: Hans Helmut Christmann , Frank-Rutger Hausmann (ed.): German and Austrian Romanists as persecuted by National Socialism. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3923721609 , pp. 141-144. (Romanica et Comparatistica series, volume 10.)
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  1. ↑ occasionally also: Carl Viëtor
  2. ↑ . She emphasized that her family had been Protestant for two generations
  3. ^ Cyrus Walker was a mill owner in Port Gamble WA, from 1854 to 1888; Ames was his son-in-law
  4. ↑ Liselotte Dieckmann Papers (WTU00436). Finding aid available
personal data
SURNAME Dieckmann, Liselotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neisser, Liselotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Germanist, comparativeist and translator of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Main)
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1994
Place of death St. Louis , Missouri