Ursula Brumm

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Ursula Brumm (born October 24, 1919 in Berlin ; died May 26, 2015 there ) was a German Americanist .

biography

Brumm studied history in Berlin and Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1943 at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin with the thesis The authenticity of the first Staufer diplomas to South Burgundian recipients , but then turned to English literary studies. From 1946 to 1953 she was employed at the Berlin US Information Center ; from 1953 to 1955 she studied as a scholarship holder of the Commonwealth Fund at Harvard University . After her return she taught American studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1961 she completed her habilitation with the thesis The Religious Typology in American Thought and from 1966 was a full professor at the Department of American Culture at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies , to which she remained associated even after her retirement . In 1996 she was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Her research focus was New England Puritanism , and she returned to Nathaniel Hawthorne , Henry Adams and William Faulkner again and again in her work .

Works

Monographs

  • The religious typology in American thought: its meaning for American literary and intellectual history (= studies of American literature and history. Vol. 2). Leiden, Brill 1963.
    • Revised English translation: American Thought and Religious Typology . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ 1970.
  • Puritanism and literature in America (= income from research. Vol. 20). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1973, ISBN 3-534-06142-X .
  • History and wilderness in American literature (= basics of English and American studies. Vol. 11). Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-503-01636-8 .
  • Motive investigations on American literature (= Berlin contributions to American studies. Vol. 9). John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88646-045-2 .

Articles (selection)

  • Wilderness and Civilization: A Note on William Faulkner . In: Partisan Review. XXII, No. 3, summer 1957, pp. 340-351.
  • Henry Adams as a Historian: Its Significance in American Literary and Intellectual History . In: Archives for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures. Volume 199, 1962, pp. 209-228.
  • George Bancroft. Historian, diplomat and friend of Berlin . In: Jörg Helbig (Ed.): Welcome to Berlin. The image of Berlin in the English-speaking world from 1700 until today . Stapp, Berlin 1987.
  • Some Thoughts on Faulkner's “Racism” . In: Connotations. Vol. 6, 1996/97, H. 1, pp. 98-102.
  • National topics of American literature (PDF; 170 kB) (= John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies : Working Paper. 130). Free University of Berlin, Berlin 2003.

literature

  • Winfried Fluck (Ed.): Forms and Functions of History in American Literature: Essays in Honor of Ursula Brumm. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-503-01660-0 .
  • Sylvia Richter: "I hold the position". Ursula Brumm has been working at the John F. Kennedy Institute for more than 35 years. In: dimensions. The Berlin science magazine. Issue 7, winter 1993/94.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members . In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . No. 2015.1 , 2016, p. 32 .
personal data
SURNAME Hum, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Americanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 2015
Place of death Berlin