Levin Ludwig Schücking
Levin Ludwig Schücking (* May 29, 1878 in Steinfurt, † October 12, 1964 in Farchant ) was a German Anglist Shakespeare and researchers.
Life
Schücking is a grandson of Levin Schücking and came from a resident for centuries in the Munsterland lawyers and family of scholars. He was the brother of the politician and international law expert Schücking Walther (1875 - 1935) and the Husum mayor, lawyer and writer Lothar Engelbert Schücking (1873 - 1943).
Born in Burg- Steinfurt born as the son of the District Court Council Carl Levin Schücking Lothar and his wife Luise Wilhelmine Amalie Beitzke ( a daughter of Heinrich Ludwig Beitzke ) the family moved during his childhood to Münster. There he attended high school and the Pauline graduated from high school.
Schücking studied English and Romance Philology and History of Art in Freiburg, Berlin, Munich and Göttingen. In 1901 he received his doctorate in Göttingen. This was followed by a period of study in England. In 1902 he returned to Munster to habilitate in Göttingen in 1904 for English language and literature.
During his time in Göttingen, he came across his studying there brother Walther Schücking in contact with Borries von Munchausen and founded with him the circle of students "academy" of Göttingen, as in the times of the Göttingen Hainbund, made it a center of literary life. Together they issued the Göttingen Musenalmanach.
At this time, the circle of friends included, among others, Lulu Strauss and Torney, Agnes Miegel, Ludwig Finckh, Bernard and Carl Wieman Bulcke. Especially his friendship with Borries von Munchausen held until his death in 1945 and also included the families with. The life-long guided correspondence was published by his daughter Beate E. Schücking.
Schücking received professorships in Jena from 1910 and Breslau from 1916. Calls to Graz, Bern and Cologne he refused. He married on August 3, 1912 Elizabeth Gerke, the English literature student had been with him in Jena and had with her four children: Ursula, Beate E., Louise and Adrian.
In 1925 he became the then most important German Anglist, in imitation of Max Forester Professor of English Language and Literature in Leipzig.
The study guide of the University of Leipzig says about him:
"He earned his cultural-historical - sociological literature consideration, especially with the book" The sociology of literary taste education (1923 ) " international recognition. His main research devoted to the Old English literature, Shakespeare, published his complete works Schücking in his first years in Leipzig and Puritanism in England. "
Levin Ludwig Schücking evolved into the leading Shakespeare scholar of his time. In many published works by him had his wife Elisabeth with a translator. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Schücking signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler.
In the academic leaders of the University of Leipzig is Schücking during the time of National Socialism, however, to read:
"During the Nazi rule Levin Ludwig Schücking been exposed to political reprisals increasingly because of its consistently pacifist attitude. Schücking international recognition and the protest of Leipzig Faculty of Arts it is thanks to them that the Dresden Ministry of Education in 1933 intended dismissal could not be realized. However, he was spied on, away from all faculty committees and no longer authorized to conduct state examinations. "
In 1944 he was retired at his own request, moved to Farchant in Upper Bavaria and took over after the war a substitute, the Chair of English at the University of Erlangen. In 1949 he was elected a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
Without pension payments from the past in the GDR Leipzig, he was to be finally retired in 1951 for a semester as Professor of English Philology Bavarian state officials, only to 1952. He even took then until 1957/58 a teaching position at the University of Munich. o M. 1949