Theodore Ziolkowski

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Theodore Joseph Ziolkowski (born September 30, 1932 in Birmingham , Alabama , † December 5, 2020 in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania ) was an American German studies scholar and emeritus professor of German and comparative literature at Princeton University .

Life

Theodore Ziolkowski was the son of the Polish musician Miecislaw Ziolkowski and his Polish-Bohemian wife Cecelia. The family lived in the small town of Montevallo, Alabama , where his father taught music at the local university . There he grew up and attended school. After graduating, he went to Duke University and was supposed to study medicine, but dropped out of disinterest after a year. Because his father, who had studied in Germany, had taught him German and both Poles and Germans frequented his parents' house in his youth, he decided to switch to German and philology . He did his bachelor's degree1951 and 1952 his Masters .

On the recommendation of his professor, he then went to Hermann J. Weigand ( Sterling Professor Emeritus of Germanic Literature ) in Yale for a lectureship . He earned his doctorate there in 1957. He then took on a professorship at Columbia University in New York.

In 1964 he was appointed professor of German at Princeton . In 1969 he became Class of 1900 Professor of German and Comparative Literature and from 1979 to 1992 he was Dean of the Graduate Faculty . In 1985 he was also President of the Modern Language Association . He taught as a visiting professor at many universities (Yale, UNY , Rutgers , Bristol , Munich , Leuphana University of Lüneburg ). In 2001 he retired. Ziolkowski has written more than 20 books of his own and over 180 writings in English and German.

Theodore Ziolkowski was married to a literary scholar; his three children are also literature professors - his son Jan Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin & Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard .

Ziolkowski died in December 2020 at the age of 88.

Honors, prizes and memberships (selection)

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selected works in English

selected works published in German

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jamie Saxon: Theodore Ziolkowski, renowned scholar of German and European literature and 'one of the true giants of the Princeton faculty' dies at 88. Princeton University, December 9, 2020, accessed on December 12, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ Henning Zühlsdorff: Princeton professor visiting Leuphana. In: leuphana.de . February 11, 2016, accessed December 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Kevin Eagan: Interview With Theodore Ziolkowski, Author of "Lure of the Arcane". In: Critical Margins. December 4, 2013, accessed December 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ziolkowski, Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziolkowski, Theodore Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American German studies scholar and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 2020
Place of death Bethlehem , Pennsylvania