Eudo Mason

Eudo Colecestra Mason (1901–1969) was a scholar and 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 Basle.[3]

Eudo Mason
Born(1901-09-26)26 September 1901
Colchester, United Kingdom
Died10 June 1969(1969-06-10) (aged 67)
near Peebles, United Kingdom
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Leipzig (PhD)
ThesisLebenshaltung und Symbolik bei Rainer Maria Rilke (1938)
Academic work
InstitutionsEdinburgh University

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 the 1st 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]

Family picture of the Mason family

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]
  • 1958 Rilke und Goethe[15]
  • 1959 Deutsche und englische Romantik: Eine Gegenüberstellung ASIN B00B3MH5FM[16]
  • 1961 Rilke, Europe, and the English-Speaking World ISBN 978-0-521-05687-8
  • 1963 Exzentrische Bahnen: Studien zum Dichterbewubsein der Neueit ASIN B00BGGQANI
  • 1963 Rilke ISBN 978-0-05-001422-6
  • 1963 A Miscellany Of German And French Poetry ASIN B0010IIA6C
  • 1964 RAINER MARIA RILKE, Sein Leben und sein Werk ASIN B000L2ANPE
  • 1968 Goethe's "Faust": Its Genesis and Purport ISBN 978-0-520-00821-2[17]
  • 1975 Holderlin and Goethe: 3 (Britische und Irische Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur/British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature) ISBN 978-3-261-01410-8

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]

References
  1. Wagg, Sheila M. (23 September 2004). "Mason, Eudo Colecestra (1901–1969), German scholar". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57373. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8.
  2. "German - Our History". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  3. "Collection of Letters and Poems of Eudo Colecestra Mason (1901-1969)". jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  4. 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. JSTOR 27704998.
  5. A.M. Atkins. ""Both Turk and Jew": Notes on the Poetry of Henry Fuseli, with Some Translations". Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly - Volume 16 Issue 4 Spring 1983. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  6. "Eudo C. Mason". German Academy for Language and Poetry. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  7. Wagg, Sheila M. (2004). "Mason, Eudo Colecestra". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57373. Retrieved 26 January 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. "Bernard Mason". geneanet. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  9. "E.N. MASON AND SONS LTD. OF THE ARCLIGHT WORKS, COLCHESTER". Essex Archives. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  10. "Eudo Colecestra Mason". geneanet. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  11. "In Memoriam Eudo Colecestra Mason 1901-1969 Professor of German, University Chaplaincy Centre, Tuesday, 1st July 1969". University of Edinburgh. 1969. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  12. "Eudo Mason Collection". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  13. "Rilke's apotheosis: a survey of representative recent publications on the work and life of R.M. Rilke". Trove - National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  14. "Chinese Poetry Paper by the Master of the Ten Bamboo Hall: Twenty-Four Facsimiles in the Size of the Originals". Carpe Diem Fine Books. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  15. "Rilke und Goethe". Trove - National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  16. Leonard M. Trawick (4 December 1977), William Blake's German Connection, Colby Quarterly Issue 13 Article 3
  17. A.P. Foulkes (1 January 1971). "Mason, Eudo C. Goethe's Faust, Its Genesis and Purport (Book Review)". Comparative Literature. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  18. Mason, Eudo C. (1 July 1951). "Reviews of Book: Lessings Dramen; Erworbenes Erbe". The Downside Review. 69 (217): 362–366. doi:10.1177/001258065106921712. S2CID 164302687. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  19. Mason, Eudo C. (1954). "Rilke's Correspondence with Benvenuta and Erika Mitterer". German Life and Letters. Wiley Online Library. 7 (3): 199–203. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0483.1954.tb01134.x. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  20. "RILKE'S EXPERIENCE OF INSPIRATION AND HIS CONCEPTION OF "ORDNEN"". Oxford Academic. Retrieved 28 January 2021.



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