General Info | TEI
| Name | Untermeyer, Louis |
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| ID | 493 |
| Gender | male |
| Lifespan | 1885-10-01 - 1977-12-18 |
| Professions | writer (Q36180), poet (Q49757), translator (Q333634), editor (Q1607826), critic (Q6430706), politician, diplomat, autobiographer |
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| Uri(s) |
https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/1_153 https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/2832/ https://d-nb.info/gnd/1055916253 |
| Notes | Louis Untermeyer was one of the most prolific editors of anthologies and recruited dozens of authors, with whom he had an extremely extensive correspondence, in the preparation of the approximately 100 books he edited. An abundance of surviving letters to poets and novelists is accessible in the Untermeyer Papers at the University of Delaware in Newark and in the Untermeyer Papers at Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington. |
| References | Jeffrey L. Sammons, “Retroactive Dissimilation: Louis Untermeyer, the ‘American Heine’,” in German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation. Ed. Lynne Tatlock and Matt Erlin. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005, 211-31. see Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, ch. 3 |
Relations
Institution
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | — | visited | Theater in der Josefstadt |
| 1923 | — | attended | Salzburg Festival |
| 1923-07 | — | visited | Schloss Leopoldskron |
| — | — | wrote for | The Freeman |
| 1916 | — | founder of | The Seven Arts |
Person
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Person |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | related >> friendship with | Kreymborg, Alfred |
| — | — | related >> had his works published by | Huebsch, Benjamin W. |
| 1911 | — | related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with | Huebsch, Benjamin W. |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with | Kommer, Rudolf |
| 1906 | 1926 | related >> in a relationship with >> married to | Untermeyer, Jean Starr |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with | Eastman, Max |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with | Aiken, Conrad |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with | Sitwell, Edith |
| — | — | related >> translator of | Toller, Ernst |
| — | — | related >> translator of | Heine, Heinrich |
Place
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Place |
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| 1885-10-01 | — | Place of Birth | New York, NY |
| 1977-12-18 | — | related >> died in | Newton, CT |
| 1923-07 | 1924-11 | related >> lived in | Vienna |
| 1923-07 | 1924-11 | related >> lived at | Rooseveltplatz, 1090 Vienna |
| 1923-07 | — | related >> visited | London |
| 1924-12 | — | related >> stayed in | London |
| 1925 | — | related >> lived in | New York, NY |
| 1923 | 1924 | related >> stayed in | Hinterbrühl |
| — | — | related >> owner of >> had a farm in | Adirondack Mountains, VT |
| 1923 | 1924 | related >> visited >> regularly visited | Messerschmidtgasse 28, 1180 Vienna |
Work
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Work |
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| — | — | related >> wrote >> author of | Bygones: The Recollections of Louis Untermeyer |
| — | — | related >> wrote >> author of | From Another World |
| — | — | related >> wrote >> author of | Blue Rhine, Black Forest |
| — | 1937 | related >> translator of | Poems of Heinrich Heine |
| — | 1917 | related >> translator of | Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Poems |
| — | 1924 | related >> translator of | Masse Mensch |
| — | — | related >> translator of >> abandoned the translation of | Jaákobs Traum |
| — | — | related >> editor of | A Miscellany of American Poetry |
Label
| Label | Start | End | Label type | ISO Code |
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| Untermeyer, Charles G. | — | — | Legacy name (merge) | deu |
| American Heine | — | — | alternative name >> nickname | deu |
