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Eva J. Engel
Eva J. Engel, later known as Eva Engel-Holland, (August 18, 1919 in Dortmund – August 30, 2013 in Göttingen)〔(Nachruf der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel ) (PDF-Datei; 82 kB)〕 was a scholar of German studies and a important editor of the collected works of Moses Mendelssohn.
== Biography ==
Eva Johanna Engel, born in 1919, was the oldest of three children in a Jewish family in Dortmund. Her father, Stefan Engel, was was a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics.〔Michael Albrecht (Hrsg.): ''"Gedanck und Empfindung". Ausgewählte Schriften''. Festgabe zum 75. Geburtstag von Eva J. Engel am 18. August 1994, Frommann-Holzboog 1994, S. 5〕 She grew up in Westend, Berlin. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Engel family faced growing oppression under Nazism,〔Eduard Seidler: ''Jüdische Kinderärzte 1933-1945. Entrechtet - Geflohen - Ermordet'', Karger, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-8055-8284-1, S. 229f.〕 and they emigrated in 1936 to Great Britain and settled in London. The mother, Margerethe Katharina, neé Litten, died there two years later.〔 An aunt who stayed behind in Germany was deported and murdered.〔
Engel studied German, Latin, and Romance studies at King's College London. Afterwards she worked for 12 years as a high school teacher of Latin, Roman history, and German, before she could continue her studies in German, Italian, and Indo-European languages at Cornell University. She earned a PhD with a dissertation on the ethics and aesthetics of Karl Philipp Moritz.〔Engel, Eva Johanna: ''Carl Philipp Moritz: A Study of his Ethical and Aesthetic Concepts''. A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, June 1954 / Eva Johanna Engel. - Ann Arbor, Michigan: 1954〕 She then taught at the University of London, Cambridge University, and Keele University, and she was a visiting professor at Harvard University.〔(Eva J. Engel, Autoren beim Verlag Frommann-Holzboog )〕 In 1967 she was appointed a professor of German studies at Wellesley College, near Boston. In the United States she met Orthodox Rabbi Alexander Altmann, the editor of the anniversary edition of Moses Mendelssohn's collected works, with whom she then collaborated.〔Stephen Tree: (''In Mendelssohns Namen. Eva Engel-Holland ist tot'' ), Der Tagesspiegel 9. September 2013〕
Eva Engel was married to Albert Edward Holland (1912–1984), a historian and early president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges as well as vice-president of Wellesley College.〔(Obituaries ), New York Times, August 19, 1984〕 On October 14, 2013, her ashes were interred in the RuheForst Vorharz in Heiningen, Lower Saxony.
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