Ursula Wertheim
Ursula Wertheim (born October 8, 1919 in Nowawes ; † 2006 ) was a German literary scholar and university professor .
Life
Ursula Wertheim studied German , history and art history from 1948 to 1953 at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Between 1951 and 1953 she also worked as an employee of the Goethezeit Museum and as an assistant at the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar . She received her doctorate in 1957 and qualified as a professor in 1963. From 1965 until her retirement in 1979 she was professor for modern and contemporary literary history in Jena. The main research focus of the Marxist- oriented scholar was classical German literature. She was also committed to theater studies and history. Wertheim lived in Weimar.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ursula Wertheim in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biobibliographical short description in Petra Boden, Rainer Rosenberg (Hrsg.): Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft 1945-1965. Berlin 1997, p. 440.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wertheim, Ursula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nowawes (now part of Potsdam ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2006 |