Ralph Elliott
Ralph Warren Victor Elliott AM (born August 14, 1921 as Rudolf WHV Ehrenberg in Berlin ; died June 24, 2012 in Canberra ) was an Australian English scholar , linguist , literary scholar and rune expert .
Life
Ehrenberg was the son of the Berlin architect Kurt Ehrenberg and Margarethe Landecker. One grandfather was the lawyer Victor Ehrenberg ; his grandmother was the daughter of the lawyer Rudolf von Jhering . He was the cousin of the singer and actress Olivia Newton-John . During the National Socialist period he lived with his uncle Max Born , who later won the Nobel Prize, in Edinburgh, Scotland .
He studied from 1939 at the University of St Andrews . In 1940 he was interned by the British government as an enemy alien in Canada and was able to return to Great Britain after 10 months to a camp of the Royal Pioneer Corps . On May 12, 1943, he changed his name to Ralph Warren Victor Elliott . At the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst he completed an officer training. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Leicestershire Regiment and from April 1945 in the Manchester Regiment. He was seriously injured several times during operations in the Teutoburg Forest . After the war he was able to complete his studies at the University of St Andrews in 1949. He taught briefly at St Andrews, from 1949 at the newly established University College of North Staffordshire .
Elliott was married from 1944 to 1958 to Liselotte Spiro, who fled to Great Britain on a Kindertransport in 1937 , they had two children. Together with his second wife Margaret Robinson and his three children and his father, he emigrated to Australia in 1959 and received a professorship at Flinders University , and from 1974 at the Australian National University .
literature
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Saur, Munich 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 260
Web links
- Commemorative event at ANU , Australian National University, College of Arts & Social Sciences, on July 13, 2012. Short CV (English)
- English expert helped shape Canberra's cultural life , obituary in The Canberra Times , by Colin Steele, July 5, 2012
- About Elliot in the biographical database tracking and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933-1945 , actual. Version 2018, based on Utz Maas 2010 (accessed: April 13, 2018)
notes
- ↑ On these processes in general: Annette Puckhaber, A privilege for a few. German-speaking migration to Canada in the shadow of National Socialism. Lit, Münster 2002 ISBN 3825862194 full text Puckhaber Zugl. Diss. Phil. University of Trier
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elliott, Ralph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elliott, Ralph Warren Victor; Ehrenberg, Rudolf WHV (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian Anglicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2012 |
| Place of death | Canberra |