Victor Lange

Victor Lange (born July 13, 1908 in Markranstädt , † June 29, 1996 in Princeton ; full name Victor Hermann Walter Lange ) was a German-American German studies and English studies .

Life

Lange was born the son of a lawyer. He studied at the Thomas School in Leipzig from 1919 to 1928 . He then studied English at the University of Oxford , with Paul Joachimsohn , Wilhelm Pinder and Karl Vossler at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , with Walter Goetz , Hermann August Korff , Theodor Litt and Joachim Wach at the University of Leipzig and at the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1930 to 1931 he studied as Gertrude Davis Fellow at the University of Toronto and received his doctorate in 1934 with a thesis on the lyric anthology in England in the 18th century (1670-1780) at Levin Ludwig Schücking at the University of Leipzig Dr. phil.

He then taught in Toronto, from 1938 at Cornell University and from 1945 to 1946 at Smith College . In 1942 he became an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa and in 1944 a US citizen. From 1957 he worked at Princeton University . Until 1977 he was John N. Woodhull Professor of Modern Languages ​​there . Since 1934 he was a member of the Modern Language Association and from 1957 of the German Schiller Society . In 1950 and 1967 he received a Guggenheim scholarship and in 1962 became honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin . In 1959 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1965 he received the Goethe Medal in Frankfurt and in 1966 the Friedrich Gundolf Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , of which he had been a member since 1957. In 1985 he received the Chancellor's Citation from the University of California and in 1993 the Golden Goethe Medal from the Goethe Society in Weimar. In 1966 he organized the German-speaking writers' meeting of Group 47 and in 1970 of the International Association for Germanic Linguistics and Literature , of which he was President, in Princeton. From 1980 to 1989 he was founding president of the Goethe Society of North America. He was also a member of the PEN Club.

Web links

• Literature by and about Victor Lange in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Victor Lange  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gottlieb Tesmer, Walther Müller: Honor roll of the Thomas School in Leipzig. The teachers and high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1912–1932. Commissioned by the Thomanerbund, self-published, Leipzig 1934, p. 48.