Laurence Sterne and Goethe (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Laurence Sterne and Goethe W. R. Richard Pinger was connected with the University of California, first as a graduate student and assistant and then as instructor and Assistant Professor of German, from 1905 to his death in 1917. He was an enthusiastic and inspiring teacher, an indefatigable worker in various university activities, and withal a devoted and constant student in his chosen field of Goethe philology. Gifted with extraordinary energy he made demands upon himself to which even his exceptional physical vigor was not permanently equal, he was stricken in the classroom and died after a year of total disability. Overwork had cut short a career rich in promise of scholarly achievement. His dissertation on Der junge Goethe and das Publikum (1908) was only the first fruit of a comprehensive investigation covering the entire life of his favorite author, he left a vast collection of well ordered material ready for elaboration. A paper on Laurence Sterne, s Influence upon Goethe, read before the Philological Association in 1911, was a by-product of his main work, additional material assembled by him in subsequent years and new light thrown upon certain aspects of the subject by other scholars led him to plan an exhaustive inquiry into the relations between Goethe and Sterne for the Semicentennial Publications of the University of California in 1918. After his death the Department of German decided to consummate this plan as a tribute to his memory. Mrs. Pinger made her husband's notes available and supplemented them with valuable hints as to the views and intentions he had expressed to her verbally, and Dr. Lawrence M. Price, whose particular interest in English-German literary relations had made him personally desirous to complete the unfinished work of his colleague, was entrusted with its preparation for the press. The result is now presented as an earnest of what furtherance Goethe philology might yet have received from the departed scholar if life and health had been spared to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.