Péter Szondi

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Péter Szondi [ˈpeːtɛr ˈsondi] (May 27, 1929, BudapestNovember 9, 1971, Berlin) was a celebrated literary scholar and philologist, of Hungarian extraction. His father was the Hungarian-Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Léopold Szondi, who settled in Switzerland after his 1944 release from Bergen-Belsen.[1]

From 1965 he was Professor at the Free University of Berlin. His fields were the history of literature and comparative literature.

He committed suicide.

[edit] Works

  • Über eine "Freie Universität". Suhrkamp, 1973
  • Die Theorie des bürgerlichen Trauerspiels im 18. Jahrhundert. Suhrkamp, 1973
  • Celan-Studien. Suhrkamp, 1972
  • 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
  • Walter Benjamin Berlin Childhood Around 1900, 2006, Belknap Press [Harvard UP] (Introduction is a reprint of an essay by Szondi)
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