Erich Auerbach

Erich Auerbach (born the November 9th 1892 with Berlin - died the October 13rd 1957 with Wallingford, Connecticut, the United States) was a Philologue and critical arts person German, specialist in particular in Romance Littérature.

Biography

Auerbach, belonged to the philological tradition German and it became with Léo Spitzer one of its most known representatives. After having fought at the time of the First World War, it obtained its doctorate in 1921 and became in 1929 member of the faculty of philology of the University of Marbourg. Because of the rise of the Nazisme Auerbach, which was Jewish, was forced to give up its station in 1935. Exiled, it settled with Istanbul (in Turkey), where it wrote Mimesis , which is generally regarded as its masterpiece.

It left to the the United States in 1947, teaching with the Pennsylvania State University and working then with the Institute for Advanced Study. He became professor of Romance philology to the Yale University in 1950, station which he kept until his death in 1957.

Work

Mimésis

He is the author of the study Mimesis (imitation in Greek, he takes as a starting point the theories of Aristote for this term). He recalls there the evolution of the problem of the imitation of reality in the Western literature since Homère until Virginia Woolf.

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