Manfred Kridl

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Manfred Kridl (born October 11, 1882 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary ; died February 4, 1957 in New York City ) was a Polish literary scholar.

Life

Manfred Kridl was the son of an Austro-Hungarian military. He studied Polish and Romance languages ​​at the University of Lemberg , the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and in Paris. With the dissertation Stosunek Mickiewicza do Lamennais'ego w epoce towianizmu he received his doctorate in 1909 under Józef Kallenbach in Lemberg. Between 1907 and 1914 and after 1918 he worked as a teacher. Kridl was accepted into Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie in 1911 and worked from 1912 to 1914 as the company's secretary. He became a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I.

In 1921 he completed his habilitation at the University of Warsaw with the study Antagonizm wieszczów. Rzecz o stosunku Słowackiego do Mickiewicza , which went to press in 1925, and became an assistant professor at the university. In 1929 he received a teaching position for Slavic Studies at the University of Brussels and in 1932 a professorship for literary history at the Polish University of Vilnius . Between 1933 and 1939 he was a member of the editorial team of the historical literary journal Pamiętnik Literacki . Kridl supported the Stronnictwo Demokratyczne party in Vilnius. In 1939 Vilna was added to the state of Lithuania by the Hitler-Stalin Pact and Kridl fled to Sweden, from there to Belgium and on to the USA. Kridl worked from 1940 at Smith College in Massachusetts and in 1948 received a professorship in polonics at Columbia University in New York City. He wrote reviews for the Slavic Review .

Kridl's daughter, the historian Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier , published a memoir in Poland in 2002.

Fonts (selection)

  • Antagonizm wieszczów. Rzecz o stosunku Słowackiego do Mickiewicza . 1925
  • Bronisław Chlebowski : Literatura polska: 1795–1905 jako główny wyraz życia narodu po utracie niepodległości: z rękopisu wydał i przedmową poprzedził Manfred Kridl . Lemberg: Ossolineum, 1923
    • Bronisław Chlebowski: La Littérature polonaise au XIXe siècle. Ouvrage posthumous publié et complété par Manfred Kridl . Paris: Champion, 1933
  • Od trzeciego rozbioru do wystąpienia Mickiewicza (1795–1822): podręcznik dla szkół średnich . Warsaw: Wydaw. M. Arcta, 1926
  • Literatura na emigracji: podręcznik dla szkół średnich . Warsaw: Wydaw. M. Arcta, 1926
  • Literatura w kraju po r. 1830 . Warsaw: Wydaw. M. Arcta, 1930
  • Z zagadnień poetyki . 1931
  • Od pozytywizmu do wielkiej wojny. T. 1, Główne prądy literatury europejskiej: okres pozytywizmu . Warsaw: Wydaw. M. Arcta, 1931
  • Główne prądy literatury europejskie. Klasycyzm, romantyzm, epoka poromantyczna . 1931
  • Wstęp do badań nad dziełem literackim . Vilnius, 1936
  • Literaturę polską na tle rozwoju kultury . New York: Roy, 1945
  • (MHrsg.): Adam Mickiewicz - poet of Poland: a symposium . New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1951
  • A Survey of Polish Literature and Culture . New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1956
  • The lyric poems of Juliusz Slowacki , 's-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1958

literature

  • Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier : Manfred Kridl: uczony, pedagog, działacz polityczny . In: Archiwum emigracji. Toruń: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika. ISSN 2084-3550. Vol. 7/8 (2006), pp. 357-365
  • Wacław Lednicki : Reminiscences: The Adventures of a Modern Gil Blas during the Last War . Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019 ISBN 978-3-11-103407-2 [contains a reference to Kridl's time in Brussels and a less than benevolent criticism]
  • Andrzej Karcz : The Polish Formalist School and Russian Formalism . Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2002 Chicago, Univ., Diss., 1999 ISBN 1-58046-110-7
  • Shamma Shahadat : Warsaw and Vilna Polonistics in the Interwar Period. Entry into the European field of literary theory , in: Bernd Stiegler , Sylwia Werner (Hrsg.): Laboratorien der Moderne. Places and spaces of knowledge in Central and Eastern Europe . Paderborn; Wilhelm Fink, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7705-6013-4 , pp. 235-252

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ journal articles by Manfred Kridl
personal data
SURNAME Kridl, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1957
Place of death New York City