IN MEMORIAM HERMANN SCHOENFELD Hermann Schoenfeld, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of German in George Washington University since 1894, died on July 4, 1926, at his summer home at Wildwood Crest, N. J. Dr. Schoenfeld was born at Oppeln (Silesia), Prussia, on January 21, 1861. His education in Germany included the usual gymnasium preparation and studies in the universities of Berlin, Breslau, and Leipsic. He also was a student at the École de Droit, Paris, and at Petrograd. Following his marriage in 1888 he came to the United States, teaching at Providence, R. I., and New Bedford, Mass., for a time. From 1891 to 1893 he was instructor in German at Johns Hopkins University. During 1893-94 he was American Consul at Riga. In 1894 he came to George Washington University, where he taught Continental history, Romance languages, and German, eventually becoming head of the German department. At various times he also taught at the Catholic University of America, Cornell University, and the University of Kansas. From 1899 until 1910 he acted as Ottoman ConsulGeneral at Washington. He was the recipient of decorations from the governments of Turkey and Venezuela. Dr. Schoenfeld was a profound scholar, equally at home in the classics, in Germanics, in the Slavic languages, in Romance languages, and in history. His teaching emphasized the importance of historical background and of cultural development. His publications have been estimated to exceed one thousand titles, mostly articles published abroad on historical, literary and educational subjects. He was a recognized authority on the Renaissance, his most important contributions to this field being his "Brant and Erasmus” and “Erasmus and Rabelais." He had edited a number of German classics, which are models of painstaking and scholarly annotation, notably Maria Stuart and Wilhelm Tell. His thorough historical training was exhibited in his edition of the orations and letters of Prince von Bismarck and his German Historical Prose. As teacher and colleague Dr. Schoenfeld enjoyed the respect and affection of faculty members and students alike. A man of warm heart and sincere sentiment, his intense affection for and pride in his family seemed to extend to his students and to his younger colleagues. He was ever the first with a word of praise and appreciation of intellectual endeavor, however modest, and his wide knowledge enabled him to appreciate activities in many fields, though his judgments were sometimes influenced to an embarrassing extent by his native kindliness and affection for his friends. He will be mourned by countless friends here and abroad to whom he personified the most admirable qualities of heart and mind and breeding—a gentleman, a scholar, a lovable human being whom we could ill spare. Requiescat in pace. GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HENRY GRATTAN DOYLE CONTENTS Wallenstein and Prinz Friedrich von Homburg...... By JOHN C. BLANKENAGEL .By LAMBERT A. SHEARS The Place of Biography in German Literary History. German Genius in the Novelle.... The Moral Problem in Hebbel's Drama... Ernst Barlach and the Search for God...... By EDWARD FRANKLIN HAUCH The Poetic Art of Eric Axel Karlfeldt.. Grimmelshausens Simplicissimus..... Economic Influences on Nineteenth Century The Lyric of Nascent Modern Realism.... Gottfried Keller and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer.... By FREDERICK L. PfeifFER 312 BOOK REVIEWS: Kuno Francke, Die Kulturwerte der deutschen Literatur..By A. B. FAUST By MARIAN P. WHITNEY Camillo von Klenze, From Goethe to Hauptmann. Albert Köster, Die deutsche Literatur der Aufklärungszeit. . Von ERNST FEISE Jakob Wassermann, Der Aufruhr um den Junker Ernst.. The Oxford Book of Scandinavian Verse.. Georg Stefansky, Das hellenische Weltbild... Das deutsche Volkslied... H. W. Nordmeyer, Edward Fitzgeralds Rubaiyat..... . By A. E. ZUCKER 175 Geneviève Bianquis, La Poésie autrichienne....By MARIAN P. WHITNEY 268 |