Ernst Robert Curtius
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Ernst Robert Curtius (April 14, 1886 – April 19, 1956) was a German literary scholar, a philologist and Romance language literary critic.
His is best known for his 1948 work Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter.[1] It was a major study of the Medieval Latin literature and its effect on subsequent writing in modern European languages. It was largely responsible for introducing the literary topos concept as a scholarly and critical discussion of literary commonplaces.
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[edit] Academic career
Curtius studied philology and philosophy in Strasbourg, Berlin, and Heidelberg.
He was a professor in Marburg, Heidelberg, and Bonn and was a proponent of French literature to the German public.
He died in Rome.
[edit] Family and background
Ernst Curtius, his grandfather, and Georg Curtius, his great-uncle, were both notable scholars. He was Alsatian, being born in Thann, Alsace, into a north German family.
[edit] Works
- Die literarischen Wegbereiter des neuen Frankreich (1919)
- Die Französische Kultur (1931, translation as The Civilization of France: An Introduction (1932)
- Europäische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter (1948)
- Französischer Geist im 20. Jahrhundert (1952)
[edit] Notes
- ^ 1953 English translation European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, by Willard R. Trask.
[edit] External link
- (German) [1]
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