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Feise (Ernst) 1884-1996

Papers

Ms. 144

Size:                        10 document boxes                                                                                 

               (3.75 linear ft.)

Processed:          Feb. 1984, Aug. 1987

               May 1995

Provenance:         The papers were removed from storage in

               Gilman Hall in 1984.  Additional materials

               were added in 1987 and 1995.

Access:        Access to the collection is unrestricted.

Permission:         Permission to publish material from this

               collection must be requested in writing

               from the Manuscripts Librarian

               at the address above.

Citation:      Ernst Feise Papers Ms. 144

               Special Collections

               Milton S. Eisenhower Library

               The Johns Hopkins University

                     Feise  (Ernst) 1884-1996

                             Papers

                             Ms. 144

Provenance

The papers were removed from storage in Gilman Hall in February 1984.  Additional materials were added in 1987. 

Items transferred from Rare Books were added to the collection, May 1995.  The Schirohauer material and the Herman and Dorthea material have the Accession Number, 93-94.36.  The Accession Number for the notebooks containing Loewenberg descriptions is 93-94.13.

Biographical Note

Ernst Feise, Chairman of the German Department at Johns Hopkins University, was bornin Germany at Braunschweig in 1884.  He earned his doctorate in 1907 at the University of Leipzig.  He became instructor in German at the University of Wisconsin and was an Assistant Professor there in 1917 when he was ousted as a result of the rise of anti-German sentiment during World War I.  Deprived of his livelihood, he worked as a plumber and electrician until he secured a post at Aleman College in Mexico City after the war.  He taught at the Ohio State University for three years beginning in 1924.  In 1927 he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University.  He was

named Professor in 1927 and later headed the German Department until he bacame Professor Emeritus in 1952.

Professor Feise was known for his extraordinary sensitivity in the analysis of poetry and the novel.  His analysis of Goethe's "Werther" was regarded as one of the first great studiesof this German forerunner of the psychological novel.  One of Feise's later works was a translation of the poetry of Heinrich Heine, in which he attempted to preserve the lyrical verse of the original for

English readers.  He spoke German, French, and English interchangeably, with almost no accent.  He was an authority on speech melody.  Dr. Feise died on June 17, 1966, survived by his wife Dorothy Findlay; two sons, Richard Feise of Clarksville, Pa. and Frederick Feise of Baltimore; and a daughter, Mrs. Dorelen Bunting of Albuquerque, NM.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of research and/or lecture notes in Feise's handwriting concerning approximately 300 major German literary figures of the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.  The notes are filed alphabetically by author, and for most of them Feise provides biographical details and and analysis of the works of each author.  The papers have no dates with the exception of a

few pages which are dated in the early 1940s, but Feise probably compiled the material between the mid-1930s and the early 1950s.  A large portion of the notes is in German.

Container List

Box 1 - Research and/or Lecture Notes:

     Abbt, Thomas 1738-(?)

     Alberti, Conrad

     Anzengruber, Ludwig 1839-1889

     Arnim, Achim von 1781-1831

     Auerbach, Berthold 1812-1882

     Aufklarung    

     Aufklarung: Lyrik

     Bahr, Hermann 1863-1934

     Balladen

     Barock: Allemeines Literaturgisch

     Barock: Drama

     Barock: Geschichte

     Barock: Kunst

     Barock: Lyrik

     Barock: Protokoll

     Barock: Roman

     Barock: Texte (Lyrik)

     Beer-Hofmann, Richard 1866-1945

     Beidermeier

     Biernabzki, J.C.

     Bleibtren, Carl 1859-1928

     Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375

     Bodmer, Johann Jakob 1698-1783 und Breitinger, Johann Jakob 1701-1776

     Bohme, Jakob 1575-1624

     Braunschweig, Herzog Heinrich Julius von 1564-1613

     Brawe, Joachim Wilhelm von

     Brentano, Clemens 1778-1842

     Brockes, Barthold Heinrich 1680-1747

     Brod, Max 1884-1968

     Buchner, Georg 1813-1837

     Burger, Gottfried August 1747-1794

     Burgerliches Drama

     Burgerliches Drama 1940

Box 2 - Research and/or lecture notes:

     Canitz, Freidrich Rudolph Ludwig 1654-1699

     Cassiver, Ernst: "Philosophie des 18 Jhrs."

     Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616

     Chamisso, Adelbert von 1781-1838

     Claudius, Matthais (pseud. Asmus) 1740-1815

     Dach, Simon 1605-1659

     Diderot, Denis 1713-1784

     Droste-Hulshoff, Annette von 1797-1848

     Eichendorff, Joseph von 1788-1857

     Englische Komodianten

     Ernst, Paul

     Expressionismus

     Fuerbach, Ludwig 1804-1872

     Fichte, Johann Gottlieb 1762-1814

     Fleming, Paul 1609-1640

     Fontane, Theodor 1819-1898

     Frank, Leonard 1882-1961

     Freie Buhne: Vortrag

     Freytag, Gustav 1816-1895

     Gellert, Christian Furchtegott 1750-1769

     Gemmingen, Otto Henrich von 1753-1882(?)

     George, Stefan 1868-1933

     Gerhardt, Paul 1607-1676

     German Compostion

     German Drama

     German Literature 19th Century (outline)

     German Literature 1880-1930

     German Novels 19th Century

     German Theatre - Bibliography

     Gerstenberg, Heinrich Wilhelm von 1737-1823

Box 3 - Research and/or Lecture Notes:

     Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832

     Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832 - material

     Goethe: Clavigo

          Goethe: Dichtung und Wahrheit

     Goethe: Egmont

     Goethe: Elective Affinities

     Goethe: Faust (Chronologie)

     Goethe: Faust (Englisch)

     Goethe: Faust (Gesambehandlung)

     Goethe: Faust I (Einzelscenen)

Box 3 (Cont.)

     Goethe: Faust II

     Goethe: Gedichte (English Lectures)

     Goethe: Gedichte (Italien)

     Goethe: Der Gott und die Bajdere

     Goethe: Gotz von Berlichingen

     Goethe: Iphigenie auf Tauris

     Goethe: Laune des Verlieben

     Goehe: Lila Triumph

     Goethe: Mahomet

     Goethe: Mitschuldigen

     Goethe: Novellen

     Goethe: Poems (Baltimore Lectures)

         Goethe: Prometheus

     Goethe: Sesenheimer Lieder

     Goethe: Stella

     Goethe: Tasso

     Goethe: Werther

Box 4- Research and/or Lecture Notes 

     Goethe: Wilhelm Meister

     Gotthelf, Jeremias (pseud. of Albert Bitzius)

     Gottsched, Johann Christoph 1700-1766

     Grabbe, Christian Dietrich 1801-1836

     Grillparzer, Franz 1791-1872

     Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von 1620-1676

     Gryphius, Andreas 1616-1664

     Gunther, Johann Christian 1695-1723

     Hagedorn, Freidrich von 1708-1754

     Halbe, Max 1865-1945

     Haller, Albercht von 1708-1777

     Hamann, Johann Georg 1730-1788

     Hartleben, Otto Erich 1864-1905

     Hauff, Wilhelm 1802-1827

     Hauptmann, Gerhart 1862-1946

     Haushofer, Karl Ernst Nikolas 1869-1946

     Hebbel, Freidrich 1813-1863

     Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831

     Heine, Heinrich 1797-1856

     Heine, Heinrich - Biography (lectures)

     Heine, Heinrich - Gedichte

Box 5 - Research and/or Lecture Notes:

     Heine, Heinrich - Metrik

     Heine, Heinrich - Metrik-Statistics-Fabellen

     Heine, Heinrich - Poems

     Heine, Heinrich - Prosa Aufsatze

     Hemsterhuis, Tiberius 1685-1766

     Herder, Johann Gottfried von 1744-1803

     Hesse, Hermann 1877-1962

     Heyse, Paul 1830-1914

     Hirschfeld, Georg 1873-1942

     Historical Survey

     Hoeck, Thobald 1570-1624

     Hoffman, Ernst Theodor Amadeus 1776-1822

     Hofmannsthal, Hugo von 1874-1929

     Hofmannswaldan, Christian Hofamnn von 1617-1679

     Holderlin, Freidrich 1770-1843

     Holty, Ludwig Christoph Heinrich 1748-1776

     Holz, Arno 1863-1929

     Huch, Ricarda 1864-1947

     Ibsen, Henrik 1828-1906

     Immermann, Karl Leberecht 1796-1840

     Das Junge Deutschland (Literatur um 1830)

     Kafka, Franz 1883-1924

     Kaiser, Georg 1878-1945

     Keller, Gottfried

     Keller, Gottfried - Allgemein und Gedichte

     Keller, Gottfried - Novellen

     Klabund (pseud. of Alfred Henschke) 1891-1928

     Klassik Drama: Petersen

Box 6 - Research and/or Lecture Notes

     Klein, [Julius Leopold?] 1810-1876

     Kleist, Heinrich von 1771-1811

     Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian von 1752-1831

     Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb 1724-1803

     Kolbenheyer, Edwin Guido

     Korff, H.A.: Goethezeit Part I

        "       "          "         "   II

     Korff, Herman August 1882-1963 (re Willibald Alexis, pseud. of Wilhelm Haring 1798-

       1871)

     Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von 1761-1819

     Kunst

Box 6 (Cont.)

     Language Teaching

     L'Arronge, Adolph 1838-1908

     Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von 1646-1716

     Leisewitz, Johann Anton 1752-1806

     Lenau, Nikolaus (pseud. of Nikolaus Niembsch von Strehlenau) 1802-1850

     Lenz, Jakob Michael Reinhold 1751-1792

     Leselisten: Alphabetisch nach Dichtern

     Leselisten: Barock und Aufklarung

     Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 1729-1781

     Liliencron, Detlev von 1844-1909

     Lillo, George 1693?-1739

     Lindau, Paul 1839-1919

     Literatur des 19 Jahrs. - Allgemeines und Uberlick

     Lohenstein, daniel Caspar von 1635-1683

     Ludwig, Otto 1813-1865

     Lukacs, Georg 1885-1971 (re Goethe)

     Mann, Thomas 1875-1955

     Meissner, August Gottlieb 1753-1807

     Mercier, Louis Sebastien 1740-1814

     Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand 1825-1898

     Miller, Johann Martin 1750-1814

Box 7 - Research and/or Lecture Notes

     Moderne Lyrik

     Moore, Edward 1712-1757

     Morike, Eduard 1804-1875

     Morgenstern, Christian 1871-1914

     Muller, Adam Heinrich 1779-1829

     Mystik

     Naturgefuhl

     Neukirch, Benjamin 1665-1729

     Niebergall, Ernst Elias 1815-1843

     Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1844-1900

     Novalis (pseud. of Friedrich von Hardenberg) 1772-1801

     Novellen: Eduard von Bulow "Das Novellenbuch . . ."

     Novellen - 18th Century

     Opitz, Martin 1597-1639

     Petersen, Julius 1878-1941: "Methodenlehre"

     Pfeil, Johann Gottlieb Benjamin 1732-1800

     Platen, August (Count von Platen Hellermunde) 1796-1835

     Plato 427? - 347 B.C.

     Polenz, Wilhelm von 1861-1903

Box 7 (Cont.)

     Politische Dichtung

     Primitivismus

     Psychoanalyse

     Raabe, Wilhelm (pseud. of Jakob Corvinus) 1831-1910

     Rauschning, Hermann 1887-

     Reuter, Christian 1665?-1712

     Reuter, Fritz 1810-1874

     Reuter, Gabrielle 1859-1941

     Rilke, Rainer Maria 1875-1926

     Rist, Johann 1607-1667

     Roman (novels - 19th century German)

     Romantik

     Romantik: Ideogram

     Romantik: Kunst

     Romatik vs. Klassik

Box 8 - Research and/or Lecture Notes:

     Rosmer, Ernst (pseud. of Elsa Bernsterin) 1866-

     Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1711-1778

     Schafer, Wilhelm 1868-1952

     Scheffler, Johann 1624-1677

     Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 1775-1854

     Schiller, Johann Christian Friedrich von 1759-1805

     Schiller: Allgemeines

     Schiller: Drama

     Schlegel, August Wilhelm von 1767-1845

     Schlegel, Dorothea (nee Mendelssohn) 1763-1839

     Schlegel, Friedrich 1772-1829

     Schlegel, Johann Elias 1719-1749

     Schleiermacher, Freidrich Ernst Daniel 1768-1834

     Schnabel, Johann Gottfried 1690?-1750

     Schnitzler, Arthur 1862-1931

     Schopenhauer, Arthur 1788-1860

     Schubart, Christian Friedrich Daniel 1739-1791

     Schubert, Gotthelf Heinrich von 1780-1860

     Sedaine, Michel-Jean 1719-1797

     Shaftesbury

     "Shakespeare in Germany 1740-1815"

     Spee, Friedrich 1591-1635

     Spielhagen, Friedrich 1829-1911

Box 9 - Research and/or Lecture Notes

     Sternheim, Carl 1881-1943

     Stieler, Kaspar 1632-1707

     Stifter, Adelbert 1805-1868

     Stolberg, Friedrich Leopold von 1750-1819

     Storm, Theodor 1817-1888

     "Storm, Theodor and Bertha von Buchan" by E.O. Wooley

     Sturm und Drang

     Sudermann, Hermann 1857-1928

     Survey 1830-1880

     Thomasius, Christian 1655-1728

     Tieck, Ludwig 1773-1853

     Tolstoi, Lev Nikolaevich 1828-1910

     Uhland, Johann Ludwig 1787-1862

     Viebig, Clara 1860-1952

     Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe Auguste Matthias de 1838-1889

     Voss, Johann Heinrich 1751-1826

     Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich 1773-1798

     Wagner, Heinrich Leopold 1747-1779

     Wagner, Richard 1813-1883

     Wasserman, Jakob 1873-1934

     Weckherlin, Georg Rudolf 1584-1653

     Wedekind, Frank 1864-1918

     Weise, Christian 1642-1708

     Weisse, Christrian Felix 1726-1804

     Werfel, Franz 1890-1945

     Wernike, Christian 1661-1725

     Wiechert, Ernst

     Wieland, Christoph Martin 1733-1813

     Wilbrandt, Adolf von 1837-1911

     Wildenbruch, Ernst von 1845-1909

     Wolff, Christian von 1679-1754

     Young, Edward 1683-1765

     Zesen, Philipp von 1619-1689

     Zigler und Klephausen, Heinrich Anselm von

     Zimmerman, Johann Georg von 1728-1795

     Zunegref 1591-1635

Box 10

2 notebooks

     (The notebooks appear to be a catalog of plays in the Loewenberg Catalog of Modern  German Drama)

Photocopy of Hermann and Dorothea (Goethe) ed. By Ernst Feise

Photocopies of plays and other writings of Arno Schirokauer.