Theodore ziolkowski

Theodore Ziolkowski (September 30, 1932 – December 5, 2020) was a scholar in the fields of German studies and comparative literature.
Theodore Ziolkowski was a scholar in the fields of German studies and comparative literature.
Theodore Ziolkowski (born 1932 in Birmingham, Alabama; passed away 2021 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), was a scholar in the fields of German studies and.

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Theodore Ziolkowski

Science, Frankenstein, and Myth

Sewanee Review, 89:1 (Winter 1981), 34-56 {34} The history of postwar German drama might suggest ... more Sewanee Review, 89:1 (Winter 1981), 34-56 {34} The history of postwar German drama might suggest to the casual observer that the contemporary theater is populated by a group of frustrated physicists. Writers of every generation, from Germany East and West as well as German-speaking Switzerland and representing every theatrical vogue, have turned to nuclear physics for their subject matter. Carl Zuckmayer used the case of atomic spy Klaus Fuchs as the basis for a realistic drama entitled Cold Light, which portrays the career of a young German émigré who is trained in England as a physicist, comes to the United States to work on the Manhattan project, and turns over classified information to the Russians. In The Physicists Friedrich Dürrenmatt takes us into a madhouse where two of the patients think that they are Newton and Einstein while the third, Möbius, imagines that he is visited by the spirit of King Solomon. It turns o

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It was with great sadness that I learned of the death on December 5 of Theodore Ziolkowski, professor emeritus and former graduate dean at Princeton; prolific scholar of German Studies, the Classics, and much more; author of thirty-five books and countless articles; and a dedicated family man whose three children followed in his footsteps as academics. He was a true renaissance man. I also felt a strong sense of gratitude for having had the experience of working with him to publish his last three books, Music into Fiction(2017), Stages of European Romanticism(2018),and Roman Poets in Modern Guise(2020). Ted was a figure I looked up to from early in my career at Camden House, and I am blessed and honored to have experienced first-hand his dedication, intellectual agility, and generosity.

I first learned of Ted in the mid-1990s. I had recently begun working for Camden House when we published the Festschrift for him, Themes and Structures: Studies in German Literature from Goethe to the Present, which was presented to him for his sixty-fifth birthday in 1997. The co-founde

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Theodore Ziolkowski

American scholar (1932–2020)

Theodore Ziolkowski (September 30, 1932 – December 5, 2020) was a scholar in the fields of German studies and comparative literature. He coined the term "fifth gospel genre".^[1]

Early life

Theodore J. Ziolkowski was born on September 30, 1932, in Birmingham, Alabama, to Cecilia (née Jankowski) and Mieczysław Ziółkowski, second-generation and first-generation Polish immigrants to the United States. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1951, a Master of Arts from Duke University in 1952 and, following studies at the University of Innsbruck on a Fulbright Fellowship, his Ph.D from Yale University in 1957.^[2]^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Ziolkowski married Yetta Goldstein in 1951. Together they had two sons, Jan and Eric.^[2]

Career

Following appointments at Yale and Columbia, he was called to Princeton University as professor of German in 1964. In 1969 he was appointed Class of 1900 Professor of German and Comparative Literature and, from 1