Liselotte Dieckmann

Liselotte Dieckmann was born in Frankfurt on October 31, 1902. She gained her doctorate at the University of Heidelberg in 1927. She and her husband, Herbert Dieckmann, escaped Nazi Germany to Turkey, and from 1935 to 1937 she taught Greek, German and Latin at the University of Istanbul.[1]

After moving with her family to St. Louis in the United States, Dieckmann initially taught at John Burroughs School.[2] In 1944 Dieckmann joined Washington University as an assistant in German. She became professor of German in 1958, chaired the German department from 1963 to 1967, and was acting department chair in 1970–71. In 1971 she became professor emerita, and remained professor emerita in comparative literature until 1979.[1]

Dieckmann's personal friends included Paul Valery, Erich Auerbach, Hannah Arendt, Paul Oskar Kristeller and Ernst Robert Curtius.[1] In 1972 a festschrift was published in her honor.[3]

She died on 28 October, 1994.[1] A Liselotte Dieckmann Professorship at Washington University in Comparative Literature was established in her memory.[2]

• Christian Thomasius und seine Beziehungen zum Pietismus, 1928
• (tr.) Anton Dohrn: a life for science by Theodor Heuss, ed. Christiane Gröben, 1940
• 'Renaissance Hieroglyphics', Comparative Literature, vol. 9 (1957), pp.308-321
• Studies in Germanic languages and literatures. In memory of Fred O. Nolte. A collection of essays written by his colleagues and his former students, 1963
• Hieroglyphics; the history of a literary symbol, 1970
• Goethe's Faust: a critical reading, 1972
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1974
• Sammlung von Memoiren und romantischen Dichtungen des Mittelalters aus altfranzösischen und deutschen Quellen, 1980
• Kritische Friedrich-Schlegel-Ausgabe, 1980
• Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, translated from the first printed text, Paris 1628, 1984
• Correspondence between Goethe and Schiller, 1794-1805, 1994