Péter Szondi
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Died | 18 October 1971 | (aged 42)
Péter Szondi (Hungarian: [ˈpeːtɛr ˈsondi]; 27 May 1929, Budapest – 18 October 1971, Berlin) was a celebrated literary scholar and philologist, originally from Hungary.
Biography
[edit]Szondi's father was the Hungarian-Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Léopold Szondi, who settled in Switzerland after his 1944 release after five months in Bergen-Belsen.[1]
In 1965, Péter became a Professor at the Free University of Berlin, where he led the Institute for General and Comparative Literature. His fields were the history of literature and comparative literature.
He committed suicide in 1971 by drowning himself in the Halensee in Berlin on 18 October, leaving unfinished his book about the work of his friend Paul Celan, who had killed himself the year before.[2]
Works
[edit]- Über eine "Freie Universität". Suhrkamp, 1973
- Die Theorie des bürgerlichen Trauerspiels im 18. Jahrhundert. Suhrkamp, 1973
- Celan-Studien. Suhrkamp, 1972 = Celan Studies, trans. Susan Bernofsky with Harvey Mendelsohn, Stanford University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780804744027
- Hölderlin-Studien. Insel, 1967
- Satz und Gegensatz. Insel, 1964
- Der andere Pfeil. Insel, 1963
- Versuch über das Tragische. Insel, 1961
- Theorie des modernen Dramas. Suhrkamp, 1956
- "Hope in the Past: On Walter Benjamin", reprinted in Benjamin, W. (trans. Howard Eiland), Berlin Childhood Around 1900, 2006, Belknap Press [Harvard UP]. ISBN 0-674-02222-X
References
[edit]- ^ Berlips, Leo. "The Leopold Szondi Forum". www.szondiforum.org.
- ^ Celan Studies. SUP. 2003. ISBN 9780804744010. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
External links
[edit]- Peter Szondi and Critical Hermeneutics, an issue of Telos (140, Fall 2007)
- 1929 births
- 1971 deaths
- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors
- Comparative literature academics
- Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin
- Hungarian Jews
- Writers from Budapest
- Suicides by drowning in Germany
- Suicides in West Germany
- Hungarian emigrants to Germany
- 1971 suicides
- German academic biography stubs
- Hungarian academic biography stubs