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Erich Auerbach
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'''Erich Auerbach''' (
November 9,
1892 in
Berlin -
October 13,
1957 in
Wallingford,
Connecticut) was a
Germany German-
Jewish philology philologist and
comparative literature comparative scholar and
literary critic critic of
literature. His best-known work is ''
Mimesis'', a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times.
Auerbach was trained in the German
philology philological tradition and would eventually become, along with
Leo Spitzer, one of its best-known scholars. After participating as combatant in
World War I, he earned a
doctorate in
1921 and in
1929 became a member of the philology
Faculty (university) faculty at the University of
Marburg, publishing a well-received study entitled ''Dante: Poet of the Secular World''. With the rise of the
Nazism National Socialism, however, Auerbach, was forced to vacate his position in
1935. Exiled from
Germany, he took up residence in
Istanbul,
Turkey, where he wrote ''Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature'', generally considered his masterwork.
He later moved to the
United States in
1947, teaching at
Pennsylvania State University and then working at the
Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton University; finally he was made a
Professor of
Romance philology at
Yale University in
1950, a position he held until his death in 1957. While there he supervised
Frederic Jameson's doctoral work.
Works
* ''Dante: Poet of the Secular World''. ISBN 0226032051.
* ''Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature''. ISBN 069111336X.
* ''Literary Language and Its Public'' (German edition 1958)
External links
-
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory entry
-
Erich Auerbach capsule biography
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