Biography;

Linguist; university professor of German; academic administrator.  Born– September 20, 1932,  Birmingham.  Parents– Miecislaw and Cecilia (Jankocuski) Ziolkowski. Married– Yetta Goldstein, March 26, 1951. Children– Three. Education– Duke University, A.B., 1951; A.M., 1952; University of Innsbruck, 1952-1953; Yale, Ph.D. 1957. Taught German at Yale, 1956-1962; Columbia, 1962-1964; Princeton, 1964-2001; Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages, 1969-; chairman, German Dept., 1973-1979; dean, graduate school, 1979-2001. Awarded fellowships; Fulbright, American philosophical Society, Guggenheim, American Council of Learned Societies. Conducted Dancy Memorial Lecture, University of Montevallo, 1973.  Awarded emeritus status on his retirement at Princeton, 2001.  Honorary D.Phil., Greifswald University, 2001.

Source:

Who’s who online; Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

The Classical German Elegy, 1795-1950. Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press, 1980.

Dimensions of the Modern Novel; German Texts and European Contexts. Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press, 1969.

Disenchanted Images; A Literary Iconology. Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press, 1977.

Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus. Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press, 1972.

German Romanticism and its Institutions. Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press, 1990.

Hermann Broch. New York; Columbia University Press, 1964.

Hermann Hesse. New York; Columbia University Press, 1966.

The Novels of Hermann Hesse. Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press, 1965.

Der Schriftsteller Herman Hesse. Frankfort am Main; Suhrkamp Verlag, 1979.

Varieties of Literary Thematics. Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press, 1983.

Joint Publication(s):

Aspekte der Goethezeit. Gottengen; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977.

Editor:

Hermann Hess’s Autobiographical Writing. New York; Farrar, Straus, 1972.

Hesse; a Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice, 1973.

Hermann Hesse’s Pictor’s Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies. London; Triad, 1982.

Hermann Hesse’s My Belief; Essays on Life and Art. New York; Farrar, Straus, 1974.

Hermann Hesse; Stories of Five Decades. New York; Farrar, Straus, 1973.

Hermann Hesse’s Tales of Student Life. New York; Farrar, Straus, 1976.

Joint Translator:

Herman Meyer’s the Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel. Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press, 1968.