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Walter Silz

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Biography
Selected works
References

Walter Silz (27 September 1894, Cleveland – 30 May 1980, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American professor of German language and literature and in 1965 winner of the Grosses Verdienstkreuz from West Germany.^[1]

Biography

Born to a German-American family in Cleveland, Silz received his A.B. in 1917 and his Ph.D. in 1922 from Harvard University.^[2] In 1922 he married Frieda Bertha Ruprecht Osgood, the daughter of William Fogg Osgood;^[3] she died in 1937.^[4] Silz taught at Harvard and at Washington University in St. Louis before becoming a professor at Swarthmore College. He headed what was then the German section of the department of modern languages at Princeton University from 1948 to 1954.^[5] From 1954 to 1963 he held the Gebhard Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. He was twice awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, once for the academic year 1926–1927 and again for the academic year 1960–1961. He died in 1980 and was survived by his second wife, Priscilla Kramer Silz, who was a professor of German at Rider College.^[2]

Selected works

as author:

{{cite book|title=Heinrich von Kleist's conception of the tragic|year=1923}}^[6]
{{cite book|title=Early German romanticism|year=1929|publisher=Harvard U. Press}}
{{cite book|title=Realism and reality: studies in the German novelle of poetic realism|year=1954|publisher=U. of North Carolina Press}}
{{cite book|title=Heinrich von Kleist: studies in his work and literary character|year=1961|publisher=U. of Pennsylvania Press}}
{{cite book|title=Hölderlin's Hyperion: a critical reading|year=1969|publisher=U. of Pennsylvania Press}}

as editor: {{cite book|title=German romantic lyrics|year=1934}}

References

1. ^{{cite journal|title=Silz, Walter|journal=Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950|volume= 1|pages=1738|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ouGfY8RBauAC&pg=PA1738}}
2. ^¹{{cite news|title=Obituary: Walter Silz|newspaper=Town Topics (Princeton)|date=4 June 1980|volume=XXXV|page=21|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Town-Topics-Princeton-Jun-04-1980-Volume-Xxxv/627937/21}}
3. ^{{cite news|title=Walter Silz married to Frieda Osgood|newspaper=Harvard Alumni Bulletin|year=1922|page=710|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmAiAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA710}}
4. ^ArchiveGrid: Scrapbook of Frieda Osgood Silz, 1908–1927
5. ^In 1958 Princeton University created its German department with Victor Lange as chair.
6. ^{{cite journal|author=Blankenagel, John C.|title=Review: Heinrich von Kleist's Conception of the Tragic by Walter Silz|journal=Modern Philology|date=November 1925|volume=23|issue=2|pages=244–246|jstor=433687}}

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