Willi Erzgräber
Willi Erzgräber (born May 31, 1926 in Arheilgen ; † December 9, 2001 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Anglicist .
Life
Willi Erzgräber, born in Darmstadt in 1926, studied English , German , Romance studies and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . This study was interrupted by the Second World War, because like many others of his class he was drafted into military service in the final years of the war. Seriously wounded, he continued his studies after his recovery and received his doctorate in 1950 with a thesis on the subject of depicting the rural community under Thomas Hardy (study of the content and form of the Wessex novels) . He then went to school and worked at a grammar school in Frankfurt and Darmstadt. 1956 followed his habilitation on the subject of William Langlands Piers Plowman in English philology. Thereupon he took over a lectureship at the University of Frankfurt and in 1960 followed the call to a full professorship at the University of Saarbrücken . From 1966 he held a full professorship in Frankfurt am Main, from 1970 until his retirement in 1994 at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg .
His main interests and areas of work included English literature from the Middle Ages and the early modern period, as well as English and Anglo-Irish modernism. The various publications on the author James Joyce as well as his work Utopia and Anti-Utopia in English Literature: More, Morris, Wells, Huxley, Orwell (1981, 2nd edition 1985) stand out from his complete works .
Shortly before his death, he wrote his last contributions ( Geoffrey Chaucer , Thomas Hardy , Gerard Manley Hopkins , William Langland ) for the Metzler Lexicon of English-Language Authors , edited by Eberhard Kreutzer and Ansgar Nünning . In their foreword they therefore dedicated this volume to him.
Awards
Willi Erzgräber was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . For his scientific merits he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1993 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts in 1994 .
plant
- William Langlands "Piers Plowman" - (an interpretation of the C-text) . Winter, Heidelberg 1957.
- Utopia and Anti-Utopia in English Literature: More, Morris, Wells, Huxley, Orwell . 1981, 2nd edition 1985
- Virginia Woolf. An introduction . Artemis, Munich [a. a.] 1982, ISBN 3-7608-1301-1 .
- James Joyce: Materials to Study His Narrative Works . 1983
- Orwell 1984 - Between Fiction and Reality . 1983
- From Thomas Hardy to Ted Hughes: Studies in Modern English and Anglo-Irish Literature. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, ISBN 3-7930-9099-X .
- Middle Ages and Renaissance in England. From the old English elegies to Shakespeare's tragedies . (Rombach Litterae). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1997. ISBN 978-3-7930-9137-0 .
- James Joyce. Orality and writing in the mirror of experimental storytelling . Narr, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-8233-4485-4 .
- The English novel from Joseph Conrad to Graham Greene: Studies of the perception and representation of reality in English storytelling in the first half of the 20th century. UTB Francke, Tübingen / Basel 1999, ISBN 3-8252-1989-5 .
Festschriften
- Theory and practice in storytelling in the 19th and 20th centuries: Studies on English and American literature in honor of Willi Erzgräber . Edited by Winfried Herget u. a. Narr, Tübingen 1986
- Dialogic structures: Festschrift for Willi Erzgräber on his 70th birthday = Dialogic structures . Edited by Thomas Kühn a. a., Narr, Tübingen 1996
obituary
- Paul Goetsch : Willi Erzgräber (1926–2001), Freiburg . In: Anglistik 1/2002.
- Elmar Schenkel : Seeing and Preserving. On the death of the Freiburg Anglicist Willi Erzgräber . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 4, 2001.
Web links
- Literature by and about Willi Erzgräber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Willi Erzgräber: "Orwell 1984 - Between Fiction and Reality". Speech given at the conference of the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg "Orwell's 1984 and the turn of the millennium" on November 19, 1983 in the Congress House in Baden-Baden. Scroll down to download the podcast of the University of Freiburg , length: 1:14:32 | Size: 18.0 MB
- Willi Erzgräber: The Language of Meditative Poetry - TS Eliot's “Four Quartets”. 1983. Podcast from the University of Freiburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.mehrwissen.info
- ↑ http://www.geheli.de/autoren/erzgraeber_willi.html
- ↑ www.rombach-verlag.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Paid archive link to the FAZ
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arch graves, Willi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arch graves, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German English studies and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arheilgen , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 2001 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |