Thomas P. Saine

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Thomas Price Saine (March 8, 1941 – December 5, 2013), usually called Tom Saine,[1] was an American professor of German studies who taught at University of California, Irvine, from 1975 to 2005.

Life and academic career

Saine was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York,

UC Irvine as associate professor and was promoted to full professor and department chair in 1976.[3][5] He was one of the original members of the Goethe Society of North America in 1979 and the founding editor of its Goethe Yearbook, which published its first issue in 1982[7][8] and the Goethe Society's Vice President 2001–2002.[9] Saine was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982.[2] He retired from UC Irvine as emeritus professor in 2005.[3][5] In 2010, he moved to Texas[5] and lived in Plano,[4] until his death from complications of lung cancer in Dallas on December 5, 2013.[6][10] Saine was divorced and had two sons.[4]

Research themes and interests

Saine's main interest was in Goethezeit, the period between 1770 and 1830 in German literature, and he was a well-known scholar of

Adolph von Knigge. He investigated the German Enlightenment and its reaction to the French Revolution in his books The Problem of Being Modern and Black Bread-White Bread.[1]

One of the central topics of Saine's research was

vanity plates for his vehicles. His California car registration was GOETHE 1, his California motorcycle registration was GOETHE; when Saine moved to Texas, he was able to obtain another GOETHE plate for his car.[1][5] His GOETHE 1 California plate later appeared in a novel, Der gestohlene Abend by German author Wolfram Fleischhauer [de; fr], based on the author's experiences as an international student at Irvine. One of Tom Saine's original GOETHE 1 license plates has been displayed by Fleischhauer at readings.[5]

Publications

Besides more than forty research articles, Saine wrote the following five books:[1][12]

  • Saine, Thomas P. (1971). Die ästhetische Theodizee: Karl Philipp Moritz und die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German). W. Fink.
  • Saine, Thomas P. (1972). Georg Forster. New York, Twayne Publishers.
  • Saine, Thomas P. (1987). Von der kopernikanischen bis zur Französischen Revolution : die Auseinandersetzung der deutschen Frühaufklärung mit der neuen Zeit. Berlin: E. Schmidt.
    OCLC 20526562
    .
  • Saine, Thomas P. (1988). Black Bread–white Bread: German Intellectuals and the French Revolution. Camden House.
    ISBN 9780938100577
    .
  • Saine, Thomas P.; Saine, Thomas Price (1997). The Problem of Being Modern, Or, The German Pursuit of Enlightenment from Leibniz to the French Revolution. Wayne State University Press.
    ISBN 9780814326817
    .

Saine also edited some volumes (those with Goethe's autobiographical writings)[1] of Goethe's collected works in English, including his own translations of Campaign in France and Siege of Mainz:[5]

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 0323-4207. Archived
    from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1982. p. 94. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "VITA". webfiles.uci.edu. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Yale College Class of 1962: Obituaries: Thomas P. Saine". yale62.org. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
  5. ^
    S2CID 170101824. Archived
    from the original on June 3, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Thomas P. Saine". senate.universityofcalifornia.edu. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
  7. S2CID 246033748
    .
  8. ^ Bahr, Ehrhard. "Timely Observations: Early History of the Goethe Society of North America". Archived from the original on August 29, 2018.
  9. ^ The Goethe Society of North America. "Past officers and founding members". Archived from the original on September 2, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
  10. ^ "Thomas P. Saine '62, '68PhD | Obituaries | Yale Alumni Magazine". yalealumnimagazine.com. Archived from the original on December 19, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
  11. ISBN 9780820449258. Archived
    from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  12. ^ "Thomas P". webfiles.uci.edu. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2019.

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