Ulrich K. Goldsmith

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Ulrich Karl Goldsmith , until 1944 Goldschmidt (born January 19, 1910 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † May 2, 2000 in Boulder , Colorado ) was an American German philologist born in Germany. He became known through his studies of the work of Stefan Georges and Rainer Maria Rilke .

Life

Ulrich Goldschmidt was the eldest son of the historian Hans Goldschmidt , who at the time was a permanent employee of the Society for Rhenish History , and the Wiesbaden pastor's daughter Sophie Bickel. He grew up in Freiburg, Stuttgart , Kiel and Potsdam . After graduating from high school at Viktoria-Gymnasium in Potsdam , he studied law in Tübingen , Berlin and Hamburg from 1928 to 1931 and completed his legal clerkship in Hamburg from 1931. In 1932 he went to the London School of Economics as an exchange student . After the seizure of power by the National Socialists who refused him because of the Jewish origins of his father, another legal career, did not return Goldschmidt to Germany.

In England, Goldschmidt had worked as a language teacher for Latin, German and English at the Beltane School in Wimbledon since 1934 . He was interned in June 1940 and deported to Canada a month later , where he was interned again. After his release in April 1941, he studied Romance and German at the University of Toronto until 1946 , where he did his BA in 1942 and his MA in 1945. At the same time, he worked as a language and history teacher at Cantab College in Toronto, then at the University of Saskatchewan . He was naturalized in 1944 under the Anglicised family name Goldsmith .

In 1946, Goldsmith was an assistant teacher at the University of California, Berkeley , where he in 1950 with the work The Will to Power in the Poetical Genesis of Stefan George to the Ph.D. received his doctorate. From 1947 to 1950 he taught at Princeton , from 1950 to 1951 at the University of Manitoba , from 1951 to 1955 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and then until 1957 at Yale .

In 1957, Goldsmith, who had been an American citizen since 1956, moved to the University of Colorado Boulder . There he was first assistant professor , from 1959 associate professor and from 1962 until his retirement in 1979 professor of German literature and comparative literature.

Goldsmith was married twice and had a daughter from her first marriage. He lived with his second wife, the romance scholar and llama expert Bobra Ballin Goldsmith (1930-2010), in Longmont , Colorado.

Publications

  • Stefan George. A study of his early work . University of Colorado Press, Boulder 1959. (Reprinted 1970, revised reprint 1987)
  • (with George C. Scherer, Gerhard Loose) German in the first year . Department of Germanic Languages ​​and Literatures, University of Colorado at Boulder 1959.
  • (Ed.) Rainer Maria Rilke. A verse concordance to his complete lyrical poetry . WS Maney, Leeds 1980, ISBN 0-901286-12-5 .
  • (Ed. With Dietrich Goldschmidt ) Hermann J. Weigand : Critical probings. Essays in European literature from Wolfram von Eschenbach to Thomas Mann . Lang, Bern and Frankfurt 1982, ISBN 3-261-04921-9 .
  • (Ed. With William M. Calder III and Phyllis B. Kenevan) Hypatia. Essays in classics, comparative literature, and philosophy, presented to Hazel E. Barnes on her 70th birthday . Colorado Associated University Press, Boulder 1985, ISBN 0-87081-156-8 .

Festschrift for Ulrich K. Goldsmith:

  • Hazel E. Barnes, William M. Calder III, Hugo Schmidt (Eds.): Studies in comparison . Lang, New York and Bern 1989, ISBN 0-8204-0886-7 .

Articles (selection):

  • Words out of a hat? Alliteration and assonance in Shakespeare's sonnets . In: The journal of English and German philology , Volume XLIX (1950), No. 1, pp. 33-48.
  • Stefan George and the theater . In: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA), Volume LXVI (1951), No. 2, pp. 85-95.
  • The renunciation of woman in Stefan George's "The Year of the Soul" . In: Monatshefte (MDU), Volume XLVI (1954), No. 3, pp. 113-122.
  • On translating Mallarmé into German . In: Revue de littérature comparée (RLC), Volume XXXV (1961), pp. 474-486.
  • Ambiguities in Goethe's Faust. A lecture for the general reader . In: German Quarterly (GQ), Volume XXXIX (1966), No. 3, pp. 311-328.
  • Shakespeare and Stefan George: The sonnets . In: Stefan Grunwald, Bruce A. Beatie (Ed.): Theory and Criticism. On comparative and recent German literature. Festschrift for Gerhard Loose on his 65th birthday . Francke, Bern and Munich 1974.
  • "Oh What a Rogue and Peasant Slave am I!" Hamlet in English, French and German . In: Comparative Literature Studies (CLS), Volume 17 (1980), No. 1, pp. 66-84.
  • Aristophanes in East Germany. Peter Hacks' adaptation of Peace . In: Calder et al. (Ed.): Hypatia . op. cit. 1985.
  • "Reviewed by Friedrich Gundolf". On AW Schlegel's translation of Julius Caesar . In: Castrum Peregrini 205 (1992), pp. 62-75.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.denverpost.com/obituaries/ci_16836366

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personal data
SURNAME Goldsmith, Ulrich K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldschmidt, Ulrich Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2000
Place of death Boulder (Colorado)