Hamilton H.H. Beck

Hamilton H. H. Beck

Born in Rochester, NY. Educated at Hamilton College and Cornell University. Taught German at half a dozen colleges and universities in the US. From 1994 to 2001 taught English as a Foreign Language in Moldova; since then in Moscow.

Book: The Elusive "I" in the Novel: Hippel, Sterne, Diderot, Kant. New York: Peter Lang, 1987.

Articles:

"Neither Goshen nor Botany Bay – Hippel and the Debate on Improving the Civic Status of the Jews." In: Lessing Yearbook XXVII (1996), 63-101.

"Speak That I May See You: The Dialogic Element in Hippel's Lebensläufe." In: Königsberg-Studien. Ed. Joseph Kohnen (Frankfurt/M. et al.: Peter Lang, 1998), 123-135.

Blog: https://hippelstudies.wordpress.com

The blog contains a commentary on Hippel's Lebensläufe, an examination of translations of Hippel, and other items related to this author.