Wolfgang Clemen

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Wolfgang Clemen (born March 29, 1909 in Bonn , † March 16, 1990 in Endorf in Upper Bavaria) was an important German literary scholar , English scholar and Shakespeare researcher . His father was Paul Clemen , a well-known art historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in Bonn, Clemen studied from 1928 to 1934 at the universities of Heidelberg , Freiburg , Berlin , Munich , Bonn and Cambridge . He obtained his doctorate in 1936. phil. with a widely acclaimed work on Shakespeare's pictures and completed his habilitation in 1938 with a study on the young Chaucer . His academic teachers included Ernst Robert Curtius , Karl Jaspers , Carl Vossler and Hugo Friedrich .

After his habilitation , Clemen was initially a lecturer in literary history at the University of Cologne , but in the same year (1938) he took over a professorship in Kiel , where he received a full professorship in 1943 . In 1946 he followed a call from the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) to the English professorship for historical linguistics, which he held until his retirement in 1964. He taught as visiting professor at Columbia University , New York (1953), at Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, at the University of Bristol , England (1964) and at the University of Cambridge , England. He received numerous offers from American, English and German universities. In 1964, Shakespeare was elected President of the Modern Humanities Research Association . He is the founder (1963) of the Shakespeare Research Library at the Department of English Studies (today: Institute for English Philology ) at the LMU Munich, where he worked until 1990.

family

In 1943 he married Ursula Gauhe (1910–1993), translator of English-language poems and fairy tales, who in 1936 in Bonn with a thesis on " Jean Paul's dream seals" for Dr. phil. received his doctorate . The son Harald Clemen became a theater director.

Honors

Wolfgang Clemen was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Corresponding Member of the British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies . He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Birmingham (1964), Rouen (1967) and Uppsala (1977). In the same year he was named a lifetime curator for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust . In 1981 he was elected to the Order Pour le Mérite for Science and the Arts . Clemen was a bearer of the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star , the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Bavarian Maximilian Order . In 1972 Clemen was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

Works (selection)

  • Shakespeare's Pictures: Their Development and Functions in Dramatic Work. With e. Outlook on picture u. Parable in the Elizabethan Age (Bonn Studies for English Philology. H. 27). Hanstein, Bonn 1936. [slightly changed a. extended Phil. Diss. Bonn]
  • The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery . Routledge, London 1977, ISBN 0-415-61220-9 .
  • The young Chaucer: Foundations and development of his poetry (Cologne Anglistic Works, Vol. 33). Pöppinghaus, Bochum-Langendreer 1938 [Phil. Habil. Cologne].
  • Chaucer's early poetry . (Extended new version of The Young Chaucer . Bochum 1938). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1963.
  • The tragedy before Shakespeare: its development in the mirror of dramatic speech (series of publications of the German Shakespeare Society; NF vol. 5). Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1955.
  • Commentary on Shakespeare's Richard III: Interpretation of a Drama . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1957; 2. through u. supplemented edition 1969; English: A Commentary on Shakespeare's Richard III . Methuen, London 1968.
  • Chaucer's early poetry . (Extended new version of The Young Chaucer . Bochum 1938). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1963.
  • Idea and reality at the university (writings of the Hofgeismarer Kreis No. 3). Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1963.
  • Originality and Tradition in English Poetry History . Bayer publishing house. Akad. D. Wiss., Munich 1978.
  • Shakespeare's monologues . Piper, Munich 1985.
  • Shakespeare's soliloquies . Methuen, London 1987.
  • Interpretations of English literature . Munster 1991.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean Paul's dream seals. Ursula Gauhe. Verlag Gebr. Scheur (Bonn university printing house), 1936
  2. ↑ Ursula Clemen in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
personal data
SURNAME Clemen, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1990
Place of death Bad Endorf