| Erich Auerbach (1) [1892–1957]For other authors named Erich Auerbach, see the disambiguation page.2,866 (38,200) | 501 | 7,945 | (4.09) | 2 | | At the time of his death Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) was Sterling Professor of Romance Philology at Yale University — biography from Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages |
Don Quixote (Contributor, some editions) 28,139 copies, 404 reviews Top members (works)hhenrique (126), seite (32), archivomorero (31), spinxerox (29), drasvola (25), J_Ortega (22), JeffersonBallard (22), sharedpresence (20), llibreprovenza (20), Luis_Castrillo (19), VforValentina (18), peterdj (16) — more Recently addedlafsimons (2), zilannoj (1), paymitchell13 (1), carben (1), Rsmall (1), AxelWilkinson (1), framji (1), Arina6000 (1) Legacy LibrariesErnest Hemingway (6), Sir Walter Scott (5), Leslie Scalapino (4), Gillian Rose (4), Leonard and Virginia Woolf (3), James Boswell (3), Gustave Flaubert (3), Samuel Roth (3), Walker Percy (3), Thomas Mann (3) — 72 more, Sylvia Plath (3), Sir Richard Francis Burton (3), Ralph Ellison (3), John Adams (3), Donald and Mary Hyde (3), C. S. Lewis (2), T. E. Lawrence (2), George Washington Mordecai (2), George Washington (2), Hannah Arendt (2), Herman Melville (2), Rudyard Kipling (2), Nelson Algren (2), Karen Blixen (2), Astrid Lindgren (2), Alured Popple (2), Thomas Jefferson (2), Graham Greene (2), Edward Estlin Cummings (2), William Somerset Maugham (2), Voltaire (2), USS California (Armored Cruiser No. 6) (2), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1), Samuel Johnson (1), William Gaddis (1), Benjamin Franklin (1), Roger Mifflin (1), Robert Gordon Menzies (1), Rex Stout (1), William Faulkner (1), Richard Henry Lee (1), Susan B. Anthony (1), Terence Kemp McKenna (1), Valeriya Ilyinichina Novodvorskaya (1), Union College (1), Thomas C. Dent (1), W. H. Auden (1), Alexander Hamilton (1), Alexander Pushkin (1), Susan Sontag (1), William Butler Yeats (1), Anthony Burgess (1), Marie Antoinette (1), Friedrich Nietzsche (1), Franz Kafka (1), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1), Galileo Galilei (1), Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (1), George Orwell (1), Flannery O'Connor (1), Evelyn Waugh (1), Eeva-Liisa Manner (1), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1), Elbridge Gerry (1), Emily Dickinson (1), Dwight David Eisenhower (1), Danilo Kiš (1), H.D. (1), Carl Sandburg (1), Carson McCullers (1), Edith Sitwell (1), Peter Presley Thornton (1), Porter Cornelius Bliss (1), Phillis Wheatley Peters (1), Lady Jean Skipwith (1), Joseph Priestley (1), Charles Lamb (1), Isaiah Thomas (1), JamesMonroe (1), Abraham Stoker (1), John Fitzpatrick (1), Prentis Family (1) Member favorites
|
Canonical name | | Legal name | | Other names | | Date of birth | | Date of death | | Burial location | | Gender | | Nationality | | Country (for map) | | Birthplace | | Place of death | | Cause of death | | Places of residence | | Education | | Occupations | | Relationships | | Agents | | Organizations | | Awards and honors | | Short biography | Erich Auerbach was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. After serving in the German military in World War I, he earned a doctorate in philology at the University of Greifswald. He was the librarian at the Prussian State Library and in 1929, joined the faculty at the University of Marburg. He published Dante: Poet of the Secular World (1929), which is now considered a classic. He became one of the best-known philology scholars and comparative literature experts. Dismissed from the university by the Nazi regime in 1935, Prof. Auerbach fled to Istanbul, Turkey. There he taught at the Turkish State University and completed his masterwork, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946). He wrote most of it from memory because he had been forced to leave his papers and books y behind in Germany. In 1947, he moved to the USA, taught at Pennsylvania State University, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He was appointed Sterling Professor of Romance Philology at Yale University in 1950, a position he held until his death.
Other works included Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages (1958).  | |
| | Improve this authorCombine/separate worksAuthor division"Erich Auerbach" is composed of at least 2 distinct authors, divided by their works. You can edit the division. Name disambiguationGo to the disambiguation page to edit author name combination and separation. IncludesErich Auerbach is composed of 3 names. You can examine and separate out names. Combine with…
|