Heinrich E. K. Henel

Henel was born on 18 April 1905 in Saigon, Vietnam.[1] He was born to German parents.[2]

His daughter Bettina Charlotte Henel married Owen P. Stearns in 1954, a fellow academic.[3]

Upon earning his PhD in 1927 from Goethe University Frankfurt, he began teaching at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He left the institute in 1929 and accepted a position at Cambridge University. He eventually emigrated to Canada where he served as Head of Queen's University German Department until 1947.[1] He transferred to the United States after accepting a position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[4] He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1951[5] and awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship grant in 1954.[6] Henel joined the faculty at Yale University as a Full Professor in German in 1957.[7]

He was the recipient of the 1962 Goethe Medal for "furthering cultural relations between the United States and Germany."[8] In 1963, he was appointed to Sterling Professor of German at Yale.[7]

In 1973, he was the recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[1] He died from illness on 7 March 1981.[9]

One of his PhD students was Thomas P. Saine.[10]

The following is a list of selected publications:[11]

• Studien zum altenglischen computus (1934)
• Faust-Translations and Faust-Mosaics, a reply (1938)
• Type and proto-phenomenon in Goethe's science (1956)
• Die Entwicklung des geschichtlichen deutschen Prosastils bei Johannes von Müller (1965)
• Metaphor and meaning (1968)
• Lebendige Form; Interpretationen zur deutschen Literatur (1970)
• Goethe Zeit: ausgewählte Aufsätze (1980)
• The poetry of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1984)