Professing Classics (eBook)

Between Germanosphere and Anglosphere (mid-19th-21st C.)

Ward Briggs, Danuta Shanzer (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
340 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-11-143337-0 (ISBN)

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Thirteen original essays study the mobility of Classicists sensu latiore, including philologists and archaeologists, between the Anglophone and Germanophone worlds between the mid-19th C. and 2020, concentrating on the North Atlantic Triangle. American classicists 'rushed across the seas' for doctoral work in Germany (the great Hellenist Gildersleeve, the American circle around Wölfflin, the historian of classical scholarship Gudeman). The archaeologist Schliemann's dubious profiteering in America is exposed. Two contemporary scholars describe how they moved to enrich their career horizons (Ludwig, Shanzer). More, however, sadly, were forced to seek asylum from 20^th century Fascism and anti-Semitism (Bieler, Brendel, Fraenkel). One (Gudeman) emigrated from America to Germany in the early Nazi period and later died in a labor camp. The lasting prominence of one novelist (Wallace) and one critic with a dark past (Pöschl), whose influential works crossed the sea, are also evaluated. The volume includes work in academic sociology, archival and epistolographical detective-work, in life writing, transmission-reception, and the history of scholarship.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.10.2024
• Co-Autor: Sonja Schreiner
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w ill., 1 b/w tbl.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Alterumswissenschaft • Antisemitism • Antisemitismus • Classical Studies • History of Scholarship • History of Science • Modern Age • Neuzeit • Wissenschaftsgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 3-11-143337-4 / 3111433374
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-143337-0 / 9783111433370