Hannah Margaret Mary Closs

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Hannah Margaret Mary Closs (1905-1953) was an art critic and novelist. She wrote three novels and a book on aesthetics.

Biography

Hannah Margaret Mary Closs (née Priebsch) was born in Hampstead, London, the daughter of German scholar Robert Priebsch (1866–1935). She wrote a book on aesthetics, Her Art and Life (1936), and a re-working of the Tristan story (1940). Her three novels, republished as the Tarn Trilogy, treat Catharism.

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She married August Closs, an Austrian-born professor of German Studies, in 1931. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, who was a professor of linguistics and English at Stanford University, from 1970 to 2003. She fell ill with toxaemia and died in Bristol General Hospital.^[1]

August Max Closs was a professor of German studies. Born in Austria, he studied German and English language and literature, and in 1929 moved to London. There he taught at University College, and became friends with the German scholar Robert Priebsch, whose daughter Hannah he married. In 1931 he began teaching at the University of Bristol, where he stayed until his retirement in 1964. He was a prolific author on and editor and anthologizer of German poetry. In addition, he was a dedicated collector of manuscripts and books; part of his collection was sold to Princeton University, and the rest forms the Priebsch-Closs Collection Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies. He is remembered also for his efforts to bring about German-English reconciliation after the Second World War, especially between the cities of Bristol and Hanover.

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Bibliography

Novels

High are the Mountains (1945)
And Sombre are the Valleys (1949, republished as Deep are the Valleys, 1960)
The Silent Tarn (1955)

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↑ "Closs, August Max". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29986. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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[1] "Closs, August Max". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29986. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)