German literary scholar
Helga Slessarev, née Rettig is a scholar of German literature, a specialist in the poetry of Eduard Mörike.
Slessarev gained her PhD from the University of Cincinnati in 1955, with a thesis on 'Time as an element of poetic intuition in Eduard Mörike'. She became Head of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at the University of Cincinnati in 1973,[1] and retired from the university in 1989.[2]
A festschrift in her honor, The Enlightenment and its legacy, was published in 1991.[3]
Works
References
- ^ Helga Slessarev, 'Enlarging the Pie: German Studies at the University of Cincinnati', The Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring, 1980), pp. 45-49.
- ^ Library of Congress Name Authority File
- ^ Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Barbara Becker-Cantarino (eds.) The Enlightenment and its legacy: studies in German literature in honor of Helga Slessarev, 1991.
