Ulrich Suerbaum

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Ulrich Suerbaum (born November 2, 1926 in Osnabrück ) is a German Anglist .

Life

After his return from captivity in the USA and England, Suerbaum studied English, classical philology and philosophy at the University of Münster from 1948 . He received his doctorate with the dissertation The Lyrik der Korrespondenzen - Cowley's Visual Art and the Tradition of English Renaissance Poetry , published in 1958, and completed his habilitation after stays abroad in Sheffield and at Johns Hopkins University ( Baltimore , USA). In 1963 he accepted a professorship for English Philology at the newly founded Ruhr University Bochum , making him the first full professor at this university, where he taught until his retirement in 1992.

Suerbaum had been a member of the German Shakespeare Society West based in Bochum since 1965 and was president of this specialist society from 1987 to 1993. As President, he played a key role in the preparation of the merger (1993) of the Shakespeare societies in the west (seat in Bochum) and in the east (seat in Weimar ), which had been separated since 1963 .

Ulrich Suerbaum's younger brother Werner Suerbaum is a classical philologist, his son Sebastian Suerbaum is a microbiologist.

Research priorities

A focus of Suerbaum's research are the works of William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age in which Shakespeare lived. He also dealt intensively with modern literary genres such as the detective novel and science fiction .

Works (selection)

honors and awards

Single receipts

  1. Werner Suerbaum: Pictures of Virgil's Aeneis as a supplement to millions of Liebig's meat pots. A popular source of information in the 19th and 20th centuries Century for Roman writers. In: Antiquity and the Occident . Volume 58, Issue 1 (Nov 2012), pp. 86-131, DOI: 10.1515 / anti.2012.58.1.86 , here: p. 123.
  2. Stomach diseases and their pathogens , press release of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1996, No. 34 (February 6, 1996), accessed on January 7, 2017.
  3. Press release from the Ruhr University Bochum