Background
Mr. Lange was born on July 13, 1908, in Leipzig, , Sachsen, Germany. He was a son of Walter and Theodora (Schellenberg) Lange. He came to the United States in 1932 and naturalized in 1943.
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(MODERN GERMAN LITERATURE 1870-1940BY VICTOR LANGE PREFACE...)
MODERN GERMAN LITERATURE 1870-1940BY VICTOR LANGE PREFACE THE following essay is intended to supply a critical outline of German literature between 1870 and the present. It should appeal especially to those who are not familiar with the details of that literatures recent history and who do not read the originals with ease. So general an aim may seem not only ambitious but possibly unpromising, and it involves, without doubt, cer tain difficulties which it is well to recognize clearly. Any attempt to establish historical and critical cohesion beyond the mere fortuitous mosaic of events is a matter of interpretation and interpretation will not succeed if we aim, even obliquely, at deceptive completeness or dry detachment. For completeness is a professorial virtue which it is wisest not to strain, and detachment is nowhere less valid an attitude than in the contempla tion and interpretation of literature. On the contrary, literary criticism, even though its immediate object is the specifically verbal work of art with its inescapable and telling medium, is seldom true and alive unless it ventures judgments which go beyond the primary aesthetic experience. Literary criticism must not fail to be a mode of action it requires, as well as technical knowledge, the readiness of a decision. Broad strokes, and even generalizations, have there fore seemed preferable to that distracting abundance of names, titles, and dates which is sometimes supposed to constitute the awkward weave of literary history and an occasional oversimplification has been inevitable. Those who are acquainted with the particulars of the German literary scene may not be reconciled to some omissions others may, rightly, protest that certain authors have been treated either too meanly or too enthusiastically. But the scope and intention of this essay would be seriously misjudged if undue demands were to be made upon it. An exhaustive list of the translated works of the authors discussed will be found in the Bibliography, together with references to some of the more generally illuminating critical studies available in English.
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Mr. Lange was born on July 13, 1908, in Leipzig, , Sachsen, Germany. He was a son of Walter and Theodora (Schellenberg) Lange. He came to the United States in 1932 and naturalized in 1943.
Victor Lange obtained his Master of Arts degree from the University College of the University of Toronto in 1931, and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Leipzig in 1934 with a dissertation entitled "Die lyrische Anthologie im England des 18. Jahrhunderts (1670–1780)."
Mr. Lange taught at Toronto in the 1930s and, from 1938 onwards, at Cornell University. He moved to Princeton University in 1957, where he was the founding chairman of both the German Department and the Department of Comparative Literature. As the John N. Woodhull Professor of Modern Languages, he remained at Princeton until his retirement in 1977.
In 1966, he arranged the meeting of the Gruppe 47 in Princeton and, as President of the International Verein Germanstein he hosted their meeting in Princeton in 1970. His most important published work is The Classical Age of German Literature, 1740–1815 (New York, Holmes & Meier, 1982). An exhaustive bibliography of his writings was published posthumously in the Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik (a Peter Lang serial).
He taught as Guest Professor in many universities: Melbourne University (Australia), Berlin, Heidelberg, Munich, the University of New Zealand (Auckland), the University of California (at Davis, Berkeley, and San Diego), and lectured widely. He was the founding president of the Goethe Society of North America (in which he served from 1980 to 1989). Mr. Lange died of heart failure on 29 June 1996 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 87.
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Member International Association Germanists (president 1965-1970), American Society 18th Century Studies (president 1975-1976), Goethe Society North America (president 1980-1989), American Association Teachers German, Modern Humanities Research Association, German Academy (Darmstadt), American Comparative Literature Association, Goethe Gesellschaft Weimar, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Frances Mary Olrich, February 23, 1945. Children: Dora Elizabeth, Thomas Victor.