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Stern, Guy was born on January 14, 1922 in Hildesheim, Germany. Came to United States, 1937, naturalized, 1943. Son of Julius and Hedwig (Silberberg) Stern.
(Among the notable contributions that writers from German ...)
Among the notable contributions that writers from German speaking countries have rendered to world literature the concept and creation of the Bildungsroman, the Novel of Development, ranks high. The narrative of a young man’s or woman’s slow and often circuitous path to his or her personal destiny and societal role found numerous imitators. They obviously answered a need in modernity, when the unique individuality of all men and women were being recognized and respected. The English novel of the eighteenth century, and in particular Fielding with his Tom Jones, during a time of the rising bourgeoisie, provided Wieland, Goethe and other German writers with important building blocks which they, in turn, reshaped and varied, as the modern Bildungsroman was being born. Years later it would return to England, so that another scholar could coin the phrase of «Wilhelm Meister and his English kinsmen». In tracing one aspect of the inter-relatedness of world cultures and literature, the book which - in its original form - was presented as the author’s Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1953, makes its delayed but very timely contribution to the concept of cultural globalisation.
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(The Neue Merkur, a leading literary and political magazin...)
The Neue Merkur, a leading literary and political magazine published in Munich from 1914 to 1916 and from 1919 until 1925, was one of the most influential European journals of its type during the early 1920s. The contributors included such prominent writers and thinkers as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Jakob Wassermann, Alfred Weber, Martin Buber and Bernard Shaw. The Neue Merkur also introduced German readers to some of the previously published works of other European writers, such as Pirandello, Isaak Babel, and D.H. Lawrence. Its influence was political to the extent that it launched an international dialogue on a French-German rapprochement; one of the magazine's special issues was reprinted and distributed by the German Foreign office. After extensive archival research in Europe and the United States, including careful study of the editorial files miraculously preserved in their entirety and interviews with more than forty personalities formerly connected with the journal, Professor Stern has written a searching and highly readable account of the dissemination of some of he most significant ideas and ideals of the 1920s. Professor Stern has written a searching and highly readable account of the dissemination of some of the most significant ideas and ideals of the 1920s. The Neue Merkur, a leading literary and political magazine published in Munich, had such contributors as Mann, Brecht, Gide, Buber, and Shaw.
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Stern, Guy was born on January 14, 1922 in Hildesheim, Germany. Came to United States, 1937, naturalized, 1943. Son of Julius and Hedwig (Silberberg) Stern.
Bachelor in Romance Languages, Hofstra College, 1948. Master of Arts in Germanic Languages with honors, Columbia University, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy with honors, Columbia University, 1953.
Doctor (honorary), Hofstra University, 1998.
Graduate assistant, then instructor Columbia University, 1948-1955. Assistant professor, then associate professor Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 1955-1963. Professor German, department head University Cincinnati, 1964-1973, dean university, 1973-1976.
Professor, chairman Germanic and Slavic department University Maryland, College Park, 1976-1978. Vice president, provost Wayne State University, Detroit, 1978-1980, distinguished professor German, 1980—2003. Guest professor Goethe Institute, Freiburg University, summers 1963-1966, 84, Frankfurt University, 1993, Leipzig University, 1997, Potsdam University, 1998, Munich University, 1999.
Advisory editor languages and linguistics Dover Publications.
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Board directors Kurt Weill Foundation, secretary, 1990—2010, vice president since 2010. Board directors Leo Baeck Institute, since 1967, member executive board, since 1978. Board directors, chair academy advisory committee Holocaust Memorial Museum Greater Detroit, director Institute Righteous.
Co-founder, president Lessing Society, 1975-1977. Member public board Aufbau, 1997-2000. Executive committee Modern Language Association, 2004-2007.
With Army of the United States, 1942-1945. Member American Association Teachers German (president 1970-1972, Distinguished Germanist of Year 1985, honorary member 1989), American Association of University Professors, International Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Club, Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Society for Exile Studies (vice president since 1981), Holocaust Memorial Center (interim director 2008, Geertge Potash-suhr Prose prize 2010).
Married Judith Owens, June 16, 1979 (deceased June 2003). 1 child, Mark; Married Susanna Pointek, May 16, 2006.