Erich Auerbach was a German philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation ... Wikipedia
Born: November 9, 1892, Berlin, Germany
Died: October 13, 1957 (age 64 years), Wallingford, CT
Doctoral students: Frederic Jameson
Books
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
1946
Literary Language & Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
Dante, Poet of the Secular World
Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach
Scenes from the drama of European literature
Neue Dantestudien
1906