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]
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]
Bibliography
1938 Rilke's apotheosis: a survey of representative recent publications on the work and life of R.M. Rilke[13]
1951 The Mind of Henry Fuseli : selections from his writings ASIN B0000CHWF5
1951 Chinese Poetry Paper by the Masters of the Ten Bamboo Hall (Author - Jan Tschichold, Translator - Eudo C. Mason) [14]
1975 Holderlin and Goethe: 3 (Britische und Irische Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur/British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature)ISBN978-3-261-01410-8
Articles
1951 Reviews of Book: Lessings Dramen; Erworbenes Erbe The Downside Review 1 July 1951[18]
1954 RILKE'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH BENVENUTA AND ERIKA MITTERER - German Life and LettersVolume 7, Issue 3, April 1954[19]
1966 RILKE'S EXPERIENCE OF INSPIRATION AND HIS CONCEPTION OF "ORDNEN" - Modern Language Studies, Volume II, Issue 4, October 1966, Pages 335–346[20]
^Ernst Rose (April 1943). "Reviewed Work: Lebenshaltung und Symbolik bei Rainer Maria Rilke by Eudo C. Mason". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 42 (2): 298–302.
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