Péter Szondi

Péter Szondi (Hungarian: [ˈpeːtɛr ˈsondi]; May 27, 1929, Budapest – October 18, 1971, Berlin) was a celebrated literary scholar and philologist, originally from Hungary.

Biography[]

Szondi's father was the Hungarian-Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Léopold Szondi, who settled in Switzerland after his 1944 release after five months in Bergen-Belsen.^[1]

In 1965, Péter became a Professor at the Free University of Berlin, where he led the Institute for General and Comparative Literature. His fields were the history of literature and comparative literature.

He committed suicide in 1971 by drowning himself in the Halensee in Berlin on October 18, leaving unfinished his book about the work of his friend Paul Celan, who had killed himself the year before.^[2]

Works[]

• Über eine "Freie Universität". Suhrkamp, 1973
• Die Theorie des bürgerlichen Trauerspiels im 18. Jahrhundert. Suhrkamp, 1973
• Celan-Studien. Suhrkamp, 1972 = Celan Studies, trans. Susan Bernofsky with Harvey Mendelsohn, Stanford University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780804744027
• Hölderlin-Studien. Insel, 1967
• Satz und Gegensatz. Insel, 1964
• Der andere Pfeil. Insel, 1963
• Versuch über das Tragische. Insel, 1961
• Theorie des modernen Dramas. Suhrkamp, 1956
• "Hope in the Past: On Walter Benjamin", reprinted in Benjamin, W. (trans. ), Berlin Childhood Around 1900, 2006, Belknap Press [Harvard UP]. ISBN 0-674-02222-X

References[]

External links[]

• Peter Szondi and Critical Hermeneutics, an issue of TELOS (140, Fall 2007)

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