Rudolf Haas (English studies)

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Rudolf Haas (born February 5, 1922 in Stuttgart -Cannstatt; † October 24, 2004 in Hamburg -Othmarschen) was a German English graduate and professor at the University of Hamburg .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1940 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt and Reich Labor Service, Haas studied English, German, history and philosophy at the University of Tübingen before he was called up for military service at the end of 1941. During his studies he became a member of AMV Stochdorphia Tübingen . After the Second World War he was an elementary school teacher and continued his studies in English, American and psychology in 1949/50 with a Rockefeller scholarship at Johns Hopkins University , where he was also at the Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC . In 1953 he received his doctorate summa cum laude in Tübingen on The Design of the Dramatic Person in Shakespeare's Tragedies . In 1958 he completed his habilitation in Tübingen ( war and crisis in modern English and American novels ).

In 1959 he became a professor at the University of Hamburg , from 1961 as a full professor for English and American studies. He declined calls to Saarbrücken, Mainz and Heidelberg and continued to teach at the University of Hamburg after his retirement in 1987 until shortly before his death. In 1963/64 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty. A number of well-known academic students emerged from his environment, such as Reinhard Kuhnert , long-time rector of the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education .

In 1987 he received the silver medal from the University of Hamburg. In 1997 he received the Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine . From 1963 he was a member of the school committee of the West German Rectors' Conference and since 1966 a member of the German Science Council. In 1970 he became a member of the School of Letters at Indiana University in Bloomington. From 1980 to 1984 he was President of the International Association of University Professors of English, whose 12th International Conference he organized in 1983 in Hamburg. Since 1984 he was a member of the Joachim Jungius Society .

Haas was chairman and then honorary chairman of the board of trustees of the Ernst Jung Foundation until 1997. He had known the founder of the foundation, the shipowner Ernst Jung , from the Rotary Club since the 1960s, and after the foundation's focus on human medicine in 1974, he worked out the foundation's guidelines. A Rudolf Haas grant for young doctors is named after him.

He was co-editor of the publications of the Jung Foundation (first with Walter Siegenthaler , then with Hubert E. Blum ).

Fonts

  • American literary history , Quelle and Meyer, Uni-Taschenbücher, 1972, 2nd edition 1982
  • English studies and English lessons , Quelle and Meyer 1963
  • Editor with Edgar Lohner: Theater and Drama in America: Aspects u. Interpretations , Berlin, E. Schmidt 1978
  • Editor with Edgar Lohner: American poetry: Perspektiven und Interpretationen , Berlin, E. Schmidt 1987
  • Theory and Practice of Interpretation: Model Analysis of English and American Texts , Berlin, E. Schmidt 1977
  • with Martin Haug: Helmut Thielicke - Preacher in Our Time , Quell Verlag 1968
  • Ways to English poetry in science and teaching; Interpretations , Heidelberg, Quelle and Meyer 1962
  • Joy in the beautiful: Thoughts on a topic that is not only aesthetic , Catholic Academy Hamburg, 1992
  • A moment's monument. Hamburgensien in verse and prose , Hamburg, Society of Book Friends 1972

literature

  • Walther Ludwig In memoriam Dr. phil. Rudolf Haas , in Hubert E. Blum, Johannes Dichgans, Walter Kaminsky (editor) Growth and Age - On the Chances and Burdens of the Life Cycle , Publications of the Jung Foundation for Science and Research, Volume 14, Thieme Verlag 2006
  • Claus Uhlig, Volker Bischoff (editor) American literature in world literature: Topics and aspects: Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Rudolf Haas , Berlin, E. Schmidt 1982

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 50.

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personal data
SURNAME Haas, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Anglist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart -Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2004
Place of death Hamburg