Holthusen, Hans Egon, 1913-1997

LC control no.	n 50028148
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PT2617.O692
Personal name heading	Holthusen, Hans Egon, 1913-1997 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Holthusen, Hans Egon, 1913-
Associated country	Germany United States
Birth date	1913-04-15
Death date	1997-01-27
Place of birth	Rendsburg (Germany)
Place of death	Munich (Germany)
Field of activity	German language German literature
Affiliation	Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Profession or occupation	Authors Poets College teachers
Found in	Author's Rilkes Sonette an Orpheus ... El buque, 1961: t.p. (Hans Egon Holthusen) back of jkt. (b. Apr. 15, 1913 in Rendsburg) Northwestern University finding aid, Hans Egon Holthusen (1913-1997) Papers, 1939-1982 (Hans Egon Holthusen was born on April 15, 1913, in Rendsburg, Germany; studied German literature, philosophy, and history in Tübingen, Munich, and Berlin; received in 1937 a doctorate for his thesis on Rilke's "Sonette an Orpheus"; lector for foreign students at the Deutsche Akademie der Schönen Künste in Munich; during World War II he served in the German Army; after 1945 he became a notable writer and lyric poet; from 1959 Holthusen served as a visiting professor at American universities; led the Goethe-Institute in New York from 1961 through 1964; professor of German language and literature at Northwestern University, from 1968 until 1981; president of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in Munich (1968-1974), and became a member of the Akademie der Schönen Künste in Berlin, which he abandoned for political reasons in 1983; in 1981 Holthusen went as a fellow to the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin; died on January 27, 1997, in Munich)
Associated language	ger