Peter Boerner

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Peter Boerner (born March 10, 1926 in Tartu , Estonia ; † June 12, 2015 in Bloomington , Indiana , United States ) was a German-American literary scholar, best known as a Goethe researcher .

Live and act

Peter Boerner attended the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Göttingen and the Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main. After the Second World War he studied German and comparative literature , art history and anthropology at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1954, he was with Ernst Beutler with the work of Goethe's diary of the years 1776 to 1782 to the Dr. phil. PhD . In 1955 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the College of Europe in Bruges . He then was curator at the Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf and from 1958 director of the Stanford University Study Center in Beutelsbach .

In 1961 he went to the United States . He was Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1961 to 1964 and 1966 to 1971) and at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1964 to 1966). 1970/1971 he was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . From 1971 he held a chair for German literature at Indiana University Bloomington . He was visiting professor at the University of Michigan (1967), Middlebury College (1968) and Yale University (1978). In 1995 he retired .

After his retirement he will continue his research. On his mother's side, he was related to Wilhelmine Schwenke (1780–1871), the servant and companion of Caroline von Woliehen . As a result, a part of the estate of Caroline von Wolzo fell to him, which enabled him to carry out further research on her literary work and to publish her collected writings . He donated Caroline von Wolhaben's thought books to the Lilly Library at Indiana University, which specializes in rare books and manuscripts. He donated parts of his collections to the Free German Hochstift in Frankfurt am Main and the Goethe Museum Frankfurt am Main .

Peter Boerner was a member of the Rotary Club of Bloomington North. He was an avid recreational athlete in order to maintain his physical health. For his swimming activities received the Emeritus Award from Indiana University.

Peter Boerner was born in 1959 with the specialist librarian and translator Nancy Boerner. Sanden married and had three sons. In 2017 Nancy Boerner and Renate Boerner-Manz, a sister of Peter Boerner, visited the Schillerhaus in Rudolstadt , to which Peter Boerner had given some pieces from the estate of Caroline von Wolnahm.

In 2016 the first "Peter Boerner Memorial Faust Lecture" took place at Indiana University Bloomington.

Fonts

Peter Boerner's best-known work is the biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , which was published in 35 editions, several paperback editions and as an e-book and has been translated into ten languages. He published several catalogs of works by Goethe, including the 45-volume dtv complete edition.

  • Goethe's diary from 1776 to 1782. Dissertation. University of Frankfurt am Main 1954, DNB 480476772 .
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in personal testimonies and photo documents. With a bibliography by Helmut Riege. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1964, DNB 450536173 . Later appeared under the title Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 35th edition 2002, ISBN 978-3-499-50577-5 . E-book: 2014, ISBN 978-3-644-50181-2 .
  • Diary. Metzler, Stuttgart 1969, DNB 456151907 .
  • The pans. Caroline von Wolzogen's servant and companion, Schiller's “loyal soul”. Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg, Rudolstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-910013-78-0 .

Editor:

  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Complete Works. 45 volumes. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1961–1968, DNB 451579593 .
  • Concepts of National Identity. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1986, ISBN 978-3-7890-1304-1 .
  • with Sidney Johnson: Faust through Four Centuries. Retrospect and Analysis. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 978-3-484-10628-4 .
  • Caroline von Wolzog: Collected writings. 6 volumes. Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1988–1999, DNB 551525665 .

literature

  • Gabrielle Bersier: Professor Dr. Peter Boerner. In: Jochen Golz, Edith Zehm (eds.): Goethe-Jahrbuch 132, 2015. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-4023-7 , pp. 295–297 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • In memoriam - Peter Boerner. In: Newswatch. Vol. 2015–2016, No. 1, August 2015 ( online ).
  • Obituary. In: Alumni Newsletter Winter 2016. The College of Art and Science, Bloomington, p. 3 ( online) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Boerner on prabook.com
  2. ↑ Boerner, Peter as “index terms person” on archivportal-d.de
  3. ↑ Gabrielle Bersier: Professor Dr. Peter Boerner. In: Jochen Golz, Edith Zehm (eds.): Goethe-Jahrbuch 132, 2015. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-4023-7 , pp. 295–297, here p. 297 ( limited preview in the Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ Emeritus Award on grinswim.wordpress.com
  5. ↑ Schillerhaus receives samovar from the possession of Caroline von Wolzogens on the Schillerhaus Rudolstadt website
  6. ^ Inaugural Peter Boerner Memorial Faust Lecture on the Indiana University Bloomington website
personal data
SURNAME Boerner, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American literary scholar and Goethe researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Tartu , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2015
Place of death Bloomington , Indiana , United States