Olga Michailowna Freudenberg
Olga Freidenberg ( Russian Ольга Михайловна Фрейденберг * March 15 . Jul / 27. March 1890 greg. In Odessa , † 6. July 1955 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet classical philologist . She is also known for exchanging letters with her cousin, the writer Boris Pasternak .
Life
Olga Freudenberg enrolled in Classical Philology in 1917 and received her doctorate in 1924. In 1932 she became a professor at Leningrad University, and in 1935 she became the first woman in the Soviet Union to complete her habilitation. During the Second World War she witnessed the Leningrad blockade . After the war she was repeatedly exposed to state and cultural-political attacks, but also to attacks from her colleagues.
Freudenberg died in Leningrad in July 1955. In 1978 the book Mythos and the Literature of Antiquity was published in Moscow , in which her lectures on ancient literature are summarized.
Fonts
- Boris Pasternak, Olga Freudenberg: Correspondence 1910-1954. From the Russian by Rosemarie Tietze , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-10-060507-1 .
literature
- Annette Kabanov: Ol'ga Michajlovna Frejdenberg (1890-1955). A Soviet scientist between canon and freedom . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 978-3447046077 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Olga Michailowna Freudenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.fischerverlage.de/autor/Olga_Freudenberg/1596
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freudenberg, Olga Michailowna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Фрейденберг, Ольга Михайловна (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1955 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |