Erich Auerbach
Erich Auerbach · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Author of Mimesis, the foundational work of comparative literature
1892, Berlin, Germany — 1957, Wallingford, Connecticut, USA
Germany · Turkey · United States
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Auerbach was a German philologist and literary scholar whose Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (written in exile in Istanbul) became a foundational work of comparative literature, tracing the depiction of everyday reality from Homer to Woolf. A Jew, he was forced out of his post by the Nazis in 1935 and emigrated via Turkey to the United States, where he taught at Yale.
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Author of Mimesis, the foundational work of comparative literature
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
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