Theodore Ziolkowski
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)
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize
- Research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Goethe Medal from the Goethe Institute
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st class
- Member of the American Philosophical Society
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
- Member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald
Fonts
selected works in English
- Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus. Princeton University Press 1972, ISBN 0-691-062-358 .
- The Classical German Elegy, 1795-1950. Princeton University Press 1980, ISBN 0-691-064-30X .
- The Sin of Knowledge. Ancient themes and modern variations. Princeton University Press 1980, ISBN 0-691-050-651 .
- Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy. Johns Hopkins University Press 2013, ISBN 1-421-409-585 .
- Classicism of the Twenties. University of Chicago Press 2014, ISBN 978-0-226-18398-5 .
- The Alchemist in Literature. From Dante to the Present. Oxford University Press 2015, ISBN 978-0-198-74683-6 .
selected works published in German
- The office of poets. German Romanticism and its Institutions. DTV Munich 1994, ISBN 3-423-046-317 .
- The miracle year in Jena: Spirit and Society 1794/95. Klett-Cotta Verlag Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-608-919-422 .
- Berlin. Rise of a cultural metropolis around 1810. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-608-94033-6 .
- Harbingers of modernity. A cultural history of early romanticism. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-608-94460-0 .
- Mythological present. German experience since 1933 in an antique guise. Wilhelm Fink Verlag , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-770-54670-1 .
- Heidelberg romance. Myth and Symbol. C. Winter Universitätsverlag , Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-825-35576-0 .
- Dresden Romanticism: Politics and Harmony. C. Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 3-825-357-953 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Theodore Ziolkowski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Theodore Ziolkowski in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Theodore Ziolkowski (ed.). Eulenspiegel publishing group
- Theodore Ziolkowski. (English).
- Theodore Ziolkowski. In: princeton.academia.edu. (English).
- Theodore Ziolkowski: Seneca as a romantic on YouTube , November 6, 2010 (video; 26:50 minutes; lecture at the 3rd Peter Hacks conference Saltpeter in the house. Peter Hacks and the romantic ).
- Kevin Eagan: Interview With Theodore Ziolkowski, Author of “Lure of the Arcane”. In: Critical Margins. December 4, 2013 (English).
- Theodore Ziolkowski: A Tribute to Günter Grass (1927-2015). In: World Literature Today . April 14, 2015 (English).
swell
- Theodore Ziolkowski: self-introduction: introductory speech. In: deutscheakademie.de . 1998 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
- ^ Henning Zühlsdorff: Princeton professor visiting Leuphana. In: leuphana.de . February 11, 2016, accessed December 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Kevin Eagan: Interview With Theodore Ziolkowski, Author of "Lure of the Arcane". In: Critical Margins. December 4, 2013, accessed December 13, 2020 .
personal data | |
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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 |