Theodore Ziolkowski

Theodore Ziolkowski is a scholar in the fields of German studies and comparative literature. He received an A.B. from Duke University in 1951, an A.M. from Duke in 1952 and his Ph.D from Yale University in 1957. He was Class of 1900 Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, the Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton, and is now Professor Emeritus. He has received many honors and awards (see below) in the United States and abroad, including the Jacob-und-Wilhelm Grimm Preis (DAAD), the Forschungspreis of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, the Bundesverdienstkreuz (1. Klasse) of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the D.Phil.h.c. from the University of Greifswald.

Works

*1964. "Hermann Broch"
*1965. "The Novels of Hermann Hesse: Themes and Structures"
*1966. "Hermann Hesse"
*1969. "Dimensions of the Modern Novel: German Texts and European Contexts"
*1972. "Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus" (James Russell Lowell Prize of MLA)
*1973, ed. "Hesse: A Collection of Critical Essays".
*1976. by Hermann Hesse. Editor of English translation.
*1977. "Disenchanted

*1979. "Der Schriftsteller Hermann Hesse"
*1980. "The Classical German Elegy, 1795-1950"
*1983. "Varieties of Literary Thematics"
*1990. "German Romanticism and Its Institutions"
*1991, ed. "Soul of the Age: Letters of Hermann Hesse".
*1993. "Virgil and the Moderns".
*1997. "The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises" (Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa).
*1998. "The View from the Tower. Origins of an Antimodernist Image". ISBN 0-691-05907-1
*1998. "Das Wunderjahr in Jena: Geist und Gesellschaft, 1794/95
*2000. "The Sin of Knowledge: Ancient Themes and Modern Variations".
*2002. "Berlin: Aufstieg einer Kulturmetropole um 1810"
*2004. "Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany" (Barricelli Prize) *2004. "Hesitant Heroes: Private Inhibition, Cultural Crisis".
*2005. "Ovid and the Moderns" (Robert Motherwell Award of Dedalus Foundation)
*2006. "Vorboten der Moderne: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Fruehromantik"
*2007 "Modes of Faith: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief"
*2008 "Minos and the Moderns: Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art"
*2008 "Mythologisierte Gegenwart: Deutsches Erleben seit 1933 in antikem Gewand"