Horst Frenz (June 29, 1912 – November 17, 1990) was a German-American literary scholar and a

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in the Department of Comparative Literature and English at

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. He is known for his works on comparative literature.

Life

Horst Frenz was born on June 29, 1912, in Oberlauringen, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. in English from the

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in 1936 and an MA from

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in 1939. He began teaching at

from 1940 since retirement in 1981. He was a founder of the Comparative Literature program at IU and its first chair from 1949 to 1977. Frenz was a president of the American Comparative Literature Association (1971-1974) and a president of the

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(1973-1976). He was a recipient of Fulbright, Ford Foundation and Guggenheim fellowships and an editor of the ''Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature''.

Memorials

Horst Frenz Prize is awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA).

Works

Authored

* ''American Playwrights On Drama'' New York : Hill and Wang, <1968>. * ''Three Plays : The Weavers, Hannele, the Beaver Coat'' * ''Writers of the Western World''

Edited

* (ed) ''Eugene O'Neill's Critics: Voices from Abroad 'Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1984. * ''Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature'' * (editor)''Eugene O'Neill (Modern literature monographs)'' * (editor) ''Nobel Lectures Literature 1901-1967'' Singapore : World Scientific, 1999. * (joint ed.)''Comparative literature: method & perspective'' Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press * ''Indiana University Conference on Oriental Western Literary Relations''

References

American literary critics Indiana University faculty German literary critics Comparative literature academics Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States 1912 births 1990 deaths {{US-academic-stub