Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Gabriele |
Surname: | Humbert Parker |
Name of birth: | Humbert |
Profession: | Anglicist, germanist |
Birthday: | 1898 |
Place of birth: | Kiel |
Married since: | 1937 |
Married to: | Thomas Henry Parker |
Profession husband: | Colonial officer in Bermuda |
Education: | University studies (English, German) in Göttingen; 1930 doctorate |
Career: | 1925–27 editor of the journal *Die Studentin*; 1930–31 exchange fellow at Hunter College, NYC; 1931–38 assistant, then associate professor, German Department, Vassar College; 1938 joins husband in Bermuda |
Memberships: | 1926 founding member (as student representative), German Federation of University Women (DAB); until 1930 vice president, German Huguenot Society |
Biographical literature: | “Gabriele Humbert Married at Vassar,” *New York Times*, October 29, 1937: 24 |
Major works: | *Literarische Einflüsse in schottischen Volksballaden, Versuch einer kritischen Variantenvergleichung* (diss.; Halle: Niemeyer, 1932, facsimile reprint Vaduz: Sändig, 1973); “Literaturkritik im Schulzimmer,” *The German Quarterly* 9 (1936), no. 1: 17-24; “Motivverwandtschaft und Motivverwandlung in der Deutschen Novelle des 19. Jahrhunderts,” *PMLA* 51 (1936), no. 3: 842-50; *Erich Kästner, Emil und die drei Zwillinge, aufbereitet für den Deutschunterricht* (New York: H. Holt, 1938) |