Rudolf Sühnel

Rudolf Sühnel (born March 10, 1907 in Nottingham ; † January 21, 2007 in Heidelberg ) was a German English scholar and professor of English philology at the University of Heidelberg .

Life

As the son of the businessman Richard Sühnel and his wife Ida Schmelzer, he attended the Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden. After graduating from high school, he took a job at the publishing house BG Teubner . This was followed by studies in Leipzig with Hermann August Korff and Levin Ludwig Schücking . In 1930 he went to Heidelberg to continue his studies there.

Because of the death of Friedrich Gundolf , he did his doctorate in Leipzig. Since he had dual citizenship, he held the position of lecturer in London from 1934 to 1939. At the beginning of the war in 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht while visiting Dresden and was taken prisoner by the Soviets during the war.

In Leipzig he was an assistant at the university from 1946 to 1947. He then followed the call of the English scholar Walter F. Schirmer to Bonn to initially work as senior assistant and private lecturer at the university from 1947 to 1955. With the work Homer and the English humanity: Chapman and Popes translation in the context of the humanistic tradition he obtained his habilitation in 1955.

From 1955 to 1960 he taught at the Free University of Berlin as an associate professor. In 1960 he accepted a position at the University of Heidelberg, where he was director of the English department and dean of the faculty of philosophy until his retirement in 1972.

Since 1966 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . Sühnel was a member of the German PEN Club and the Heidelberg Schurman Society.

Fonts (selection)

• The gods of Greece and German classical music . Würzburg: Triltsch 1935.
• Edited with Dieter Riesner: English modern poets: Your life and work . Schmidt, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-503-00510-2 .
• The park as a total work of art of English classicism using the example of Stourhead. SB Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Phil.-hist. Class. Born 1977, 4th edition Heidelberg 1977. Carl Winter Universitätsverlag. ISBN 3-533-02613-2 .
• Make It New . Essays on the literary tradition. Berlin u. a .: Springer 1987. ISBN 3-540-17597-0 .
• Quintessence. Essays on English and American Literature . Edited by Hiltrud and Erwin Poell. Heidelberg: Mattes 2013. ISBN 978-3-86809-078-9 .

literature

• Horst Meller, Hans-Joachim Zimmermann (Ed.): Living antiquity. Symposium for Rudolf Sühnel. Berlin 1967.
• Hans-Joachim Zimmermann (ed.): Ancient tradition and newer philology. Symposium in honor of Rudolf Sühnel's 75th birthday. Heidelberg 1984.
• Horst Meller (Ed.): Festschrift for Rudolf Sühnel on his 85th birthday. Heidelberg 1992.
• Walter Habel: Who is who? Lübeck 1993.
• Horst Meller: Rudolf Sühnel turns 90. In: Anglistik. Vol. 8 (1997).
• Jakob Köllhofer: To the human gardener: On the death of the Heidelberg philologist Rudolf Sühnel . In: FAZ No. 20 of January 24, 2007, p. 38

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Sühnel in the catalog of the German National Library