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German literary scholar (1934–2020)
Ernst Peter Michael Dronke
FBA (30 May 1934 – 19 April 2020) was a scholar specialising in
Medieval Latin literature . He was one of the 20th century's leading scholars of medieval Latin
lyric , and his book The Medieval Lyric (1968) is considered the standard introduction to the subject.
Life and career
Dronke was born in 1934 in
Cologne ,
Rhine ,
Prussia ,
Germany , the son of
Maria Dronke (born Minnie Kronfeld), a prominent actress, and Adolf John Rudolf Dronke, a judge.
[1] His mother was born Jewish, and later converted to Catholicism.
[2] In 1939, he left the country because of the
Nazi regime , settling in
New Zealand and becoming a naturalised New Zealand citizen.
[3]
[4] Dronke earned his
bachelor's and
master's degrees at
Wellington . In 1955 he received a travelling scholarship to study at
Magdalen College, Oxford .
[3] After graduating with a first in English, in 1958 Dronke was elected to a three-year Junior Research Fellowship at
Merton College .
[5] He took up a
lectureship in Medieval Latin at the
University of Cambridge in 1961 and became a fellow of
Clare Hall in 1964. He was awarded a personal
readership in 1979 and a personal
chair in Medieval Latin literature in 1989. He became a
Fellow of the British Academy in 1984.
[6] He became a foreign member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.
[7] In 2001, he retired.
[8]
Dronke married fellow
medievalist
Ursula Brown in 1961.
[9]
He died on 19 April 2020.
[10]
[11]
Selected works
Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love-Lyric , 2 vols., (1965-6; 2d ed. 1968)
The Medieval Lyric (1968; 2d ed. 1978; 3d ed. 1996)
Poetic Individuality in the Middle Ages: New Departures in Poetry 1000–1500 (1970; 2d ed. 1986)
Fabula: Explorations into the Uses of Myth in Medieval Platonism (1974)
Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from
Perpetua to
Marguerite Porete (1984)
Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions (1986)
A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy , editor (1988)
Latin and Vernacular Poets of the Middle Ages (1991)
Intellectuals and Poets in Medieval Europe (1992)
Nine Medieval Latin Plays , translator (1994)
Verse with Prose from
Petronius to Dante: The Art and Scope of the Mixed Form (1994)
Sources of Inspiration: Studies in Literary Transformations, 400–1500 (1997)
Imagination in the Late Pagan and Early Christian World: The First Nine Centuries A.D. (2003)
The Spell of
Calcidius : Platonic Concepts and Images in the Medieval West (2008)
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The International Who's Who, 1989-90 . 1989.
ISBN
9780946653508 .
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"Dronke, Minnie Maria" .
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a
b John Marenbon, ed., Poetry and Philosophy in the Middle Ages: A Festschrift for Peter Dronke , Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2001,
ISBN
90-04-11964-7 ,
pdf , p. 1.
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"Ernst Peter Michael Dronke in the New Zealand, naturalisations, 1843–1981" . Ancestry.com Operations. 2010. Retrieved 12 September 2020 .
^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964 . Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 499.
^ Marenbon, pp. 1-2.
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"E.P. Dronke" . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from
the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016 .
^ Marenbon, p. ix.
^ Marenbon, p. 2.
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Marina Warner (14 May 2020).
"Peter Dronke obituary" .
The Guardian .
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"È morto il grande medievista Peter Dronke" . Festival del Medioevo (in Italian). 23 April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020 .
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