Jump to content

Eliza Marian Butler: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
remove birth/deathplace from lead sentence; more wikilinks; consolidate refs, expand refs and unify formats, where possible; tag other refs {{full}}; See also {Portal bar}; add Metadata; +DoB DoD missing; tweak typography
Line 1: Line 1:
'''Eliza Marian Butler''' ([[Lancashire]], 1885 – 1959, Lancashire), who published as '''E. M. Butler''' and '''Elizabeth M. Butler''', was an English scholar of German, [[Schröder Professor of German]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] from 1945.
'''Eliza Marian Butler''' (1885 – 1959), who published as '''E. M. Butler''' and '''Elizabeth M. Butler''', was an English scholar of German, [[Schröder Professor of German]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] from 1945.


Born Elizabeth but known as "Elsie," she was born and raised in [[Lancashire]] in a family of Irish ancestry, and was educated by a Norwegian governess from whom she learned German, in [[Hannover]], and at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]]. As a teenager, she watched Kaiser Wilhelm inspect his troups. In the [[First World War]] she worked as an interpreter and nurse in Scottish units on the Russian and Macedonian fronts (she had learned Russian from [[Jane Ellen Harrison|Jane Harrison]]<ref>Sheila Watts, [http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/about-newnham/college-history/biographies/content/elsie-butler Eliza Marian (Elsie) Butler (1885 – 1959)].</ref>), and treated the victims of the German assault.<ref>Thomas Meaney, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n19/thomas-meaney/half-finished-people Half-Finished People], ''London Review of Books'', 11 October 2012, p. 14.</ref> After working in hospitals, she taught at Cambridge and in 1936 became a professor at [[the University of Manchester]].<ref>''Paper boats'' Eliza Marian Butler - 1959 "As it was, we both agreed that the experiment to give the 'real Germany' another chance had not been outstandingly successful; and it was under sombre auspices that I started professing German studies in Manchester that autumn."</ref> From 1926 to 1959 Butler lived and travelled with her companion [[Isaline Blew Horner]].<ref>University of Cambridge (2007).</ref><ref>Boucher (2007), p. 121.</ref><ref>Burford (2005).</ref><ref>Watts (2006).</ref> Her works include a trilogy on [[ritual magic]] and the [[Faust]] legend. Her autobiography, ''Paper Boats'', was published in the year of her death.<ref>Obituaries from the ''Times'', 1951-1960 Frank C. Roberts - 1979 "She also published two not very good novels, and, in 1959, a delightful volume of reminiscences, Paper Boats. Dr. Butler's Irish origin gave her a degree of high spirits which made those duller than herself"</ref> Her most influential book was ''The Tyranny of Greece over Germany'' (1935),<ref>Sheila Watts, [http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/about-newnham/college-history/biographies/content/elsie-butler Eliza Marian (Elsie) Butler (1885 – 1959)].</ref> in which she wrote that Germany had had "too much exposure to Ancient Greek literature and art. The result was that the German mind had succumbed to ‘the tyranny of an ideal’. The German worship of Ancient Greece had emboldened the Nazis to remake Europe in their image."<ref>Meaney, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n19/thomas-meaney/half-finished-people Half-Finished People], p. 14.</ref>
Born Elizabeth{{cn|date=August 2013}} but known as "Elsie", she was born and raised in [[Lancashire]] in a family of Irish ancestry, and was educated by a Norwegian governess (from whom she learned German), in [[Hannover]], and at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]]. As a teenager, she watched [[Kaiser Wilhelm&nbsp;II]] inspect his troops. In the [[First World War]] she worked as an interpreter and nurse in Scottish units on the [[Eastern Front (World War I) |Russian]] and [[Macedonian front]]s (she had learned Russian from [[Jane Ellen Harrison|Jane Harrison]]<ref name=watts>Sheila Watts, [http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/about-newnham/college-history/biographies/content/elsie-butler "Eliza Marian (Elsie) Butler (1885 – 1959)"], ''College History: Biographies'', Newnham College, University of Cambridge, 2006. Retrieved 2012-11-03.</ref>), and treated the victims of the German assault.<ref name=meaney>Thomas Meaney, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n19/thomas-meaney/half-finished-people "Half-Finished People"], ''London Review of Books'', 11 October 2012, p. 14. Retrieved 2012-10-04.</ref> After working in hospitals, she taught at Cambridge and in 1936 became a professor at the [[University of Manchester]].<ref>Eliza Marian Butler, ''Paper boats'', 1959. "As it was, we both agreed that the experiment to give the 'real Germany' another chance had not been outstandingly successful; and it was under sombre auspices that I started professing German studies in Manchester that autumn."</ref> From 1926 to 1959 Butler lived and travelled with her companion [[Isaline Blew Horner]].<ref name=watts/><ref>University of Cambridge (2007). {{full|date=August 2013}}</ref><ref>Boucher (2007), p. 121. {{full|date=August 2013}}</ref><ref>Burford (2005). {{full|date=August 2013}}</ref> Her works include a trilogy on [[ritual magic]] and the [[Faust]] legend.{{clarify|date=August 2013|reason=Faust is another book or theme of trilogy?}} Her autobiography, ''Paper Boats'', was published in the year of her death.<ref>Frank C. Roberts, ''Obituaries from the ''Times'', 1951–1960'', 1979. "She also published two not very good novels, and, in 1959, a delightful volume of reminiscences, ''Paper Boats''. Dr. Butler's Irish origin gave her a degree of high spirits which made those duller than herself"{{what|date=August 2013|reason=sentence should be completed if it matters, deleted if it doesn't}}</ref> Her most influential book was ''The Tyranny of Greece over Germany'' (1935),<ref name=watts/> in which she wrote that Germany had had "too much exposure to Ancient Greek literature and art. The result was that the German mind had succumbed to 'the tyranny of an ideal'. The German worship of Ancient Greece had emboldened the Nazis to remake Europe in their image."<ref name=meaney/>

Butler died in Lancashire.


==Works==
==Works==
Line 7: Line 9:
*''Ritual Magic'' (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1949; reimpr. 1998).
*''Ritual Magic'' (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1949; reimpr. 1998).
*''Rainer Maria Rilke'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941; repr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946)
*''Rainer Maria Rilke'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941; repr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946)

==See also==
{{Portal bar |Germany |Occult }} <!-- delete the word "bar" if there are enough ordinary See also -->


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist |25em
}}


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://thepeerage.com/p36184.htm#i361835 Eliza Marian Butler]
* [http://thepeerage.com/p36184.htm#i361835 Eliza Marian Butler] at The Peerage

{{Authority control |VIAF=13325702 |LCCN=n/50/032597 |GND=127247122}}


{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
| NAME = Butler, Eliza Marian
| NAME = Butler, Eliza Marian
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Butler, Elsie; Butler, Elizabeth M. (pseud.)
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Scholar of German
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = English scholar of German; linguist and intellectual historian
| DATE OF BIRTH = 1885
| DATE OF BIRTH = 1885
| PLACE OF BIRTH =
| PLACE OF BIRTH = Lancashire, England, UK
| DATE OF DEATH = 1959
| DATE OF DEATH = 1959
| PLACE OF DEATH =
| PLACE OF DEATH = Lancashire, England, UK
}}
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Eliza Marian}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Eliza Marian}}
Line 29: Line 37:
[[Category:Germanists]]
[[Category:Germanists]]
[[Category:Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Date of birth missing]]
[[Category:Date of death missing]]

Revision as of 01:19, 9 August 2013

Eliza Marian Butler (1885 – 1959), who published as E. M. Butler and Elizabeth M. Butler, was an English scholar of German, Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge from 1945.

Born Elizabeth[citation needed] but known as "Elsie", she was born and raised in Lancashire in a family of Irish ancestry, and was educated by a Norwegian governess (from whom she learned German), in Hannover, and at Newnham College, Cambridge. As a teenager, she watched Kaiser Wilhelm II inspect his troops. In the First World War she worked as an interpreter and nurse in Scottish units on the Russian and Macedonian fronts (she had learned Russian from Jane Harrison[1]), and treated the victims of the German assault.[2] After working in hospitals, she taught at Cambridge and in 1936 became a professor at the University of Manchester.[3] From 1926 to 1959 Butler lived and travelled with her companion Isaline Blew Horner.[1][4][5][6] Her works include a trilogy on ritual magic and the Faust legend.[clarification needed] Her autobiography, Paper Boats, was published in the year of her death.[7] Her most influential book was The Tyranny of Greece over Germany (1935),[1] in which she wrote that Germany had had "too much exposure to Ancient Greek literature and art. The result was that the German mind had succumbed to 'the tyranny of an ideal'. The German worship of Ancient Greece had emboldened the Nazis to remake Europe in their image."[2]

Butler died in Lancashire.

Works

  • The Tyranny of Greece Over Germany: A Study of the Influence Exercised by Greek Art and Poetry Over the Great German Writers of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 1935; repr. Boston: Beacon, 1958, and Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 1107697646).
  • Ritual Magic (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1949; reimpr. 1998).
  • Rainer Maria Rilke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941; repr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Sheila Watts, "Eliza Marian (Elsie) Butler (1885 – 1959)", College History: Biographies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, 2006. Retrieved 2012-11-03.
  2. ^ a b Thomas Meaney, "Half-Finished People", London Review of Books, 11 October 2012, p. 14. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
  3. ^ Eliza Marian Butler, Paper boats, 1959. "As it was, we both agreed that the experiment to give the 'real Germany' another chance had not been outstandingly successful; and it was under sombre auspices that I started professing German studies in Manchester that autumn."
  4. ^ University of Cambridge (2007). [full citation needed]
  5. ^ Boucher (2007), p. 121. [full citation needed]
  6. ^ Burford (2005). [full citation needed]
  7. ^ Frank C. Roberts, Obituaries from the Times, 1951–1960, 1979. "She also published two not very good novels, and, in 1959, a delightful volume of reminiscences, Paper Boats. Dr. Butler's Irish origin gave her a degree of high spirits which made those duller than herself"[clarification needed]

Template:Persondata

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eliza_Marian_Butler&oldid=567757874"