Alice Bergel
Alice Rose Bergel, née Berger (1911 - 1998) was a German-American literary scholar who taught at the University of California, Irvine. She collaborated with her husband, Kurt Bergel, on several editions and translations of writing by Albert Schweitzer.
Life
[edit]Berger was born on 15 June 1911 in Berlin,[1] the daughter of Bruno Martin Berger and Else J. Solon.[2] She studied at the University of Berlin and the University of Freiberg from 1929 to 1933, and gained a PhD in Romance languages and philosophy from the University of Berlin in 1934. She married Kurt Bergel on 28 August 1938.[3] She escaped Nazi Germany to England in 1939, and moved to the United States in 1941.[4]
She and her husband founded the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Chapman University.[5] The couple collaborated on a translation of Schweitzer's memoirs of his childhood.
Works
[edit]- (tr. and ed. with Kurt Bergel) Albert Schweitzer and Alice Ehlers: a friendship in letters, 1991
- (ed. with Kurt Bergel) "Liebes Cembalinchen--": Albert Schweitzer, Alice Ehlers: eine Freundschaft in Briefen, 1997
- (tr. with Kurt Bergel) Memoirs of childhood and youth by Albert Schweitzer. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997
- (tr. with Kurt Bergel) The stone breakers and other novellas by Ferdinand von Saar, 1998
References
[edit]- ^ Hildegard Feidel-Mertz; Andreas Paetz (2009). "Berger, Alice, Dr.". Das Jüdische Kinder- und Landschulheim Caputh (1931-1938): ein verlorenes Paradies. Julius Klinkhardt. p. 347. ISBN 978-3-7815-1648-9.
- ^ Robert Cecil Cook (1966). Who's who in American Education. Who's Who in American Education. pp. 116–7.
- ^ World Whos Who of Women 1992-93. Taylor & Francis. 1992. p. 79. ISBN 9780948875809.
- ^ Burke, Peter (2017). Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000. Brandeis University Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-5126-0033-9.
- ^ Chapman Professor Bergel, Schweitzer Expert, Dies at 89, Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2001.
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