Ernst Robert Curtius (/ˈkʊərtsiʊs/; 14 April 1886 – 19 April 1956) was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance languages literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, translated in English as European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.
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Latin Middle Ages. Curtius was Alsatian, born in Thann, into a north German family; ErnstCurtius, his grandfather, and Georg Curtius, his great-uncle,...
idyllic islands, sometimes with connotations of Eden or Elysium. ErnstRobertCurtius wrote the concept's definitive formulation in his European Literature...
variously as "topic", "themes", "line of argument", or "commonplace". ErnstRobertCurtius studied topoi as "commonplaces", themes common to orators and writers...
(1995). "La conscience européenne chez Curtius et chez ses détractuers," in: Bem and Guyauz, ErnstRobertCurtius et l'idée d'Europe (Paris: Champion, pp...
since the 1960s. In European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, ErnstRobertCurtius first identified the topos, illustrating it with one of the Carmina...
Paul Heyse, Theodor Storm (The Dykemaster), Gottfried Keller and ErnstRobertCurtius. Richard Moritz Meyer, a German literature historian, described Deutsche...
pernicious, that he may place it in the service of truth." See Curtius, ErnstRobert (1973) [1953]. European Literature in the Latin Middle Ages. Bollingen...
this time his work was being translated into German and French by ErnstRobertCurtius and Maurice Coindreau in Europe, where it remains in print in several...
(1885–1964) Pierre Montet (1885–1966) Marc Bloch (1886–1944) Robert Schuman (1886–1963) ErnstRobertCurtius (1886–1956) Hans Schlossberger (1887–1960) Friedrich...
Reconstructing the Rhetoric and Audience of 1 Thessalonians (1995), p. 48. ErnstRobertCurtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans. W.R. Trask...
texts that triggered the 2009–2010 welfare state dispute. 1993: ErnstRobertCurtius Prize for Essay Writing 2000: Friedrich Märker Prize for Essay Writing...
first half of the verse "Estuans intrinsecus || ira vehementi." ErnstRobertCurtius offers an interesting use of the term in a footnote (Ch. 8, n. 33)...
President of Peru (d. 1933) April 14 – ErnstRobertCurtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1956) April 16 Ernst Thälmann, German Communist leader (d. 1944)...
Erich-Maria-Remarque-Friedenspreis [de]; see also Erich Maria Remarque 1997 Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Preis 1998 Heinrich Heine Prize of Düsseldorf 1999 Pour le Mérite...
existence of a Latin literary tradition (c.f. the scholarship of ErnstRobertCurtius) in the intervening centuries. The work of Jean Rychner on the art...
Istanbul; his position was taken up by literary scholar and philologist ErnstRobertCurtius. In Istanbul, Spitzer taught at the Istanbul University for three...
Sprache und Dichtung. He was awarded the Erwin-Stein-Preis (1992), the Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Preis for essay writers (1996), the Hessian Cultural Prize for science...
twentieth century Romance philologists Erich Auerbach, Leo Spitzer, and ErnstRobertCurtius." As a humanist and early philologist, Vico represented "a different...
Reinhold and Sabine Lepsius and became friends with Max Liebermann, ErnstRobertCurtius and Bernard Groethuysen. In this period he studied the history of...
contributed the works of Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos and ErnstRobertCurtius. Also: Rudolph Grossmann produced a Spanish-German dictionary and...