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Emil Staiger was born on 8 February, 1908 in Switzerland, is an A swiss literary critics. Discover Emil Staiger's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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1908

Emil Staiger (8 February 1908 – 28 April 1987) was a Swiss historian, writer, Germanist and Professor of German Studies at the University of Zurich.

Staiger was born on 8 February 1908 in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.

After graduating from school, Emil Staiger first studied theology before switching to German and classical philology.

1932

After studying at the Universities of Geneva, Zurich and Munich, he received his doctorate in Zurich in 1932 with a thesis on Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.

From 1932 to 1934 he was a member of the National Front (Switzerland), from which he publicly distanced himself in 1935.

1934

In 1934 he completed his time at the University of Zurich with a thesis on Schelling, Hegel and Hölderlin.

That same year, he became a private lecturer in German literature at Zurich.

1939

Staiger's importance in the field of German literature was founded in his widely acclaimed publications Die Zeit als Einbildkraft des Dichters (1939), Basic Concepts of Poetics (1946), The Art of Interpretation (1955) and in his three-volume Goethe Studies (1952–1959).

1943

In 1943, he was appointed to a professorship.

1987

Staiger died on 28 April 1987 in Horgen, Switzerland.

Staiger's style of literary criticism was opposed to extra-literary concepts such as positivism and intellectual history, sociology or psychoanalysis.

For Staiger, concentration on the literary texts themselves was most important.

He wrote that “the poet's word, the word for its own sake, is valid, nothing behind it, about or below it". This sensitive interpretation method, often described with the saying “understand what grabs us”, developed into a distinct Germanic style of studying literature. His work, The Art of Interpretation describes his method of literary criticism.

Staiger's 11 o'clock lectures, which inspired students from all over Europe as well as the literary public to attend, were spoken about far beyond the University of Zurich.

At the same time Staiger was a renowned translator of ancient and modern languages, and translated Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil, Tasso, Poliziano and Milton into German.

As a controversial theater and music critic as well as a columnist, he influenced Zürich's cultural life for decades.

He wrote a column for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, a Swiss German-language newspaper.