Erich Auerbach

Erich Auerbach ( born November 9, 1892 in Berlin, † October 13, 1957 in Wallingford, Connecticut, USA ) was a German literary scholar and linguist.

Life

Auerbach was born to Jewish parents and grew up as a child of the German educated bourgeoisie. After his participation in the First World War, he received his doctorate in 1921 at the University of Greifswald. In 1929 he completed his habilitation at the University of Marburg with Scripture: Dante: Poet of the secular world. He received the Department of Romance Studies, Philology of Leo Spitzer, who had moved to Cologne.

1933 Auerbach was forced by the authorities of Germany, citing a law called the statement at the wrong and arbitrary removal of people from the öffentlchen service to give up his chair. His teaching duties took over his student Werner Krauss ( Romance ). 1935 Auerbach was forced to leave Germany. He emigrated to Istanbul in Turkey. There, written in Turkey main work appeared Mimesis 1946. 1947 he went to the United States to teach at the Pennsylvania State University. Later he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, and was then appointed to the Department of Philology of romance at Yale University, where he remained until his death in 1957.

Work

Auerbach resulted in 1938 in accordance with an ancient, Augustine used rhetorical- theological concept ( Incarnation of the Word ) the modern concept of figurations, which is closely related to the problem of the exchange relationship between word and image as a representation of forms of ( historical ) reality mimesis. This issue is dedicated to his second, written in exile in Istanbul main work. There he shows how the " tragic case height" through the everyday realism of a Balzac or Stendhal is overcome. Here are the basics of film drama.

Works (selection)

  • Figura In: Archivum Romanicum Vol 22, 1938, pp. 436-489
  • Mimesis. The Representation of Reality in Western Literature 9th edition. Francke, Bern, 1994 ( first edition 1946; extended edition since 1959). The last edition was published in Francke 2001, ISBN 3-77202174-3. Translations in currently 28 languages ​​(2009)
  • Literary language and audience in Latin Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages ibid. 1958
  • Collected Essays on Romance philology in 1967 ( in: List of Publications, pp. 365-369 )
  • Dante. Poet of the Secular World, translated by Ralph Manheim, NYRB Classics, New York 2007 ISBN 978-1-590172193
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