| LC control no. | n 82023950 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Auerbach, Erich, 1892-1957 |
| Variant(s) | Oʼerbakh, Erikh, 1892-1957 אוארבך, אריך אוארבך, אריך, 1892־1957 |
| Birth date | 1892 |
| Death date | 1957 |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Vico, G. B. Die neue wissenschaft ... 1925. Mimezis, 1957 or 1958: t.p. (Erikh Oʼerbakh [voc.]) Wikipedia 06-04-2018: (Erich Auerbach; Auerbach, who was Jewish and born in Berlin (1892), was trained in the German philological tradition and would eventually become, along with Leo Spitzer, one of its best-known scholars; after participating as a combatant in World War I, he earned a doctorate in 1921 at University of Greifswald, served as librarian at the Prussian State Library for some years, and in 1929 became a member of the philology faculty at the University of Marburg, publishing a well-received study entitled Dante: Poet of the Secular World; with the rise of National Socialism Auerbach was forced to vacate his position in 1935; exiled from Nazi Germany, he took up residence in Istanbul, Turkey, where he wrote Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946), generally considered his masterwork.[4] Auerbach's life and work in Turkey is detailed and placed in historical and sociological context by Kader Konuk, East West Mimesis: Auerbach in Turkey (2010); he moved to the United States in 1947, teaching at Pennsylvania State University and then working at the Institute for Advanced Study; he was appointed professor of Romance philology at Yale University in 1950, a position he held until his death in 1957 in Wallingford, Connecticut) |
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