Péter Szondi
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Péter Szondi [ˈpeːtɛr ˈsondi] (May 27, 1929, Budapest — November 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)