Eudo Mason Explained

Birth Date:26 September 1901
Birth Place:Colchester, United Kingdom
Death Place:near Peebles, United Kingdom
Thesis Title:Lebenshaltung und Symbolik bei Rainer Maria Rilke
Thesis Year:1938
Workplaces:Edinburgh University

Eudo Colecestra Mason (26 September 1901 – 10 June 1969) was a German scholar. He was a professor of German at Edinburgh University, joining in 1946 and becoming Chair of German in 1951, a position he held until his death in 1969, only the third person to take the role since 1919.[1] [2] He had previously worked as a lecturer in Münster, Leipzig, and Basel.[3]

Mason attended school in Cambridge, before studying at both the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford completing his Doctorate in Leipzig.[3] His thesis on Austrian-Bohemian poet Rainer Maria Rilke was published in 1938.[4] Mason was seen as the principal scholar in the revival of Henry Fuseli.[5] In 1967 Mason won the Friedrich Gundolf Prize.[6] His final works, Holderlin and Goethe:3 was published posthumously in 1975.

In 2004, the Chair of German at the University of Edinburgh was renamed the Eudo C. Mason Chair of German.[2]

Personal life

Mason was born in Colchester, Essex on 29 September 1901 to Ernest Nathan Mason, an engineer's draughtsman and Bertha Betsey Mason (née Kitton), and had two older brothers, Bernard and Conrad and a younger sister Helena.[7] [8] Mason's father had worked for Paxmans, before developing a method of making photographic blueprints from engineering drawings and setting up his own firm E.N. Mason and Sons Ltd.[9] Mason married Esther Klara Giesecke in Colchester in 1939, however he outlived her as she died in 1966.[10]

Mason received a service of remembrance on 1 August 1969 at the University of Edinburgh's Chaplaincy Centre.[11] The executors of Mason's will donated his collection of over 3,600 children' books in English, French and German to the National Library of Scotland.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: Mason, Eudo Colecestra (1901–1969), German scholar. Wagg. Sheila M.. 2004-09-23. Oxford University Press. en. 10.1093/ref:odnb/57373. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 978-0-19-861412-8 . subscription.
  2. Web site: German - Our History. University of Edinburgh. 26 January 2021.
  3. Web site: Collection of Letters and Poems of Eudo Colecestra Mason (1901-1969). jisc.ac.uk. 26 January 2021.
  4. Ernst Rose . Reviewed Work: Lebenshaltung und Symbolik bei Rainer Maria Rilke by Eudo C. Mason . The Journal of English and Germanic Philology . 42 . 2 . 298–302 . April 1943 . 27704998.
  5. Web site: "Both Turk and Jew": Notes on the Poetry of Henry Fuseli, with Some Translations. A.M. Atkins. Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly - Volume 16 Issue 4 Spring 1983. 28 January 2021.
  6. Web site: Eudo C. Mason. German Academy for Language and Poetry. 28 January 2021.
  7. Mason, Eudo Colecestra. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/57373. 26 January 2021. Wagg. Sheila M..
  8. Web site: Bernard Mason. geneanet. 26 January 2021.
  9. Web site: E.N. MASON AND SONS LTD. OF THE ARCLIGHT WORKS, COLCHESTER. Essex Archives. 26 January 2021.
  10. Web site: Eudo Colecestra Mason. geneanet. 26 January 2021.
  11. Web site: In Memoriam Eudo Colecestra Mason 1901-1969 Professor of German, University Chaplaincy Centre, Tuesday, 1st July 1969. 1969. University of Edinburgh. 28 January 2021.
  12. Web site: Eudo Mason Collection. National Library of Scotland. 28 January 2021.
  13. Web site: Rilke's apotheosis: a survey of representative recent publications on the work and life of R.M. Rilke. Trove - National Library of Australia. 28 January 2021.
  14. Web site: Chinese Poetry Paper by the Master of the Ten Bamboo Hall: Twenty-Four Facsimiles in the Size of the Originals. Carpe Diem Fine Books. 28 January 2021.
  15. Web site: Rilke und Goethe. Trove - National Library of Australia. 28 January 2021.
  16. Web site: Mason, Eudo C. Goethe's Faust, Its Genesis and Purport (Book Review). A.P. Foulkes. Comparative Literature. 1 January 1971. 26 January 2021.
  17. Reviews of Book: Lessings Dramen; Erworbenes Erbe. The Downside Review. 1 July 1951. 10.1177/001258065106921712. 28 January 2021. Mason. Eudo C.. 69. 217. 362–366. 164302687.
  18. Rilke's Correspondence with Benvenuta and Erika Mitterer. Wiley Online Library. 10.1111/j.1468-0483.1954.tb01134.x. 28 January 2021. 1954. Mason. Eudo C.. German Life and Letters. 7. 3. 199–203.
  19. Web site: RILKE'S EXPERIENCE OF INSPIRATION AND HIS CONCEPTION OF "ORDNEN". Oxford Academic. 28 January 2021.

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