Fritz Strich (13 December 1882
[''Meyers Neues Lexikon.'' Bibliographisches Institut Mannheim, 1980. volume 7: Ru–Td, .] – 15 August 1963) was a Swiss-German literature historian.
Life
Born in
Königsberg
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, Strich was a student of
Franz Muncker and became a lecturer at the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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in 1910. In 1915 he was appointed extraordinary professor in Munich and in 1929 professor at the
University of Bern
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. In this way he escaped the persecution of Jews in the German Reich. In 1941 Strich was awarded the
Swiss nationality and worked as a ''professor'' until his
emeritus
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In some c ...
in 1953.
Strich received the
Goethe Medal for Art and Science
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in 1932, the in 1951 and the
Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt in 1953. Strich was a member of the
German Academy for Language and Poetry
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.
Strich's estate in the
Burgerbibliothek Bern documents "above all
isscientific work".
Strich died in Bern at the age of 80.
Publications
* ''Franz Grillparzers Ästhetik'', Berlin 1905; Reprint: Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1977,
* ''Die Mythologie in der deutschen Literatur. Von Klopstock bis Wagner'', Halle 1910; Reprint: Francke, Bern 1970
* ''Deutsche Klassik und Romantik oder Vollendung und Unendlichkeit. Ein Vergleich''. Meyer & Jessen, Munich 1922; 5. A. Francke, Bern 1962
* ''Dichtung und Zivilisation''. Meyer & Jessen, Munich 1928
* ''Schiller. Sein Leben und sein Werk''. Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, Berlin 1928
* ''Der Dichter und die Zeit. Eine Sammlung von Reden und Vorträgen''. Francke, Bern 1947
* ''Goethe und die Weltliteratur''. Francke, Bern 1946; 2. verb. A. ebd. 1957
* ''Kunst und Leben. Vorträge und Abhandlungen zur deutschen Literatur''. Francke, Bern 1960
* ''Goethes Faust''.
''Goethes Faust''
on Google Books Francke, Bern 1964
Further reading
*
* (edit.): ''Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918–1945.'' Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. K. G. Saur, Munich 1988, .
* ''Strich, Fritz.'' In ''.'' Volume 19: ''Sand–Stri.'' Edited by Archiv Bibliographia Judaica. De Gruyter
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History
The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...
, Berlin among others. 2012, , .
External links
*
Fritz Strich
on Munzinger
References
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Swiss Germanists
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Academic staff of the University of Bern
1882 births
1963 deaths
Writers from Königsberg
German emigrants to Switzerland
German Germanists