Ingeborg Solbrig

INGEBORG SOLBRIG

Iowa City

Dr. Ingeborg H. Solbrig, 93, lecturer domestic and abroad, writer (bilingual), German language/ literature educator emerita, passed away Oct. 20, 2016, at Windmill Manor in Coralville.

No services are planned at this time, but memorial donations may be sent to the Iowa City Animal Shelter in care of Ingeborg Solbrig.

Ingeborg was born in Weissenfels, Germany, in 1923. The daughter of the late Reinhold J. Solbrig and Hildegard M. Solbrig nee Ferchland, Ingeborg immigrated to the USA in 1961 from Italy, where she had resided for three years.

Ingeborg graduated from the chemistry program in Halle, Germany, in 1948. She studied one semester of Spanish at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1961 and obtained a B.A., summa cum laude, from San Francisco State in 1964. She did post-graduate studies at the University of California-Berkeley, 1964-65; earned a M.A. in German studies at Stanford University in 1966; and a Ph.D. joint degree from Stanford in German studies and humanities in 1969 after a year of research toward the doctoral dissertation in Germany and Austria.

She was assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island-Kingston, 1969-70; University of

Tennessee-Chattanooga, 1970-72; University of Kentucky-Lexington, 1972-75; associate professor at the University of Iowa from 1975 to 1981, professor from 1981 to 1993, and professor emeritus since 1993.

Ingeborg was author of "Hammer-Purgsta/1 und Goethe Bern," 1973 (received a gold medal pro orientalibus in 1974); main editor, "Rilke Heute. Beziehungen und Wirkungen," Frankfurt 1975; translator, editor, "Reinhard Goering." "Ssesch/acht I Seabattle, Tragedy," 1917, bilingual edition with annotations and commentary, Stuttgart, 1977; "Momentaufnahmen," Iowa City, 2000; Essay, "Orient-Rezeption" (general introduction, Persia/Iran, Osman Empire/Turkey, Arabia and North Africa-India, Far East) in "Fischer Lexikon Literatur," Frankfurt, 1996 and 2000; and numerous articles and reviews to proof books and journals in German and English in USA, Canada, Europe and Egypt.

She was a member of the editorial board, Lexington Germanic Studies, 1972-75, and on Kairoer Germanistische Studien Cairo, vols. 9 and 10.

Ingeborg had many lectures in USA, Canada, Europe and Africa. She was named Kentucky Colonel in 1975, Fellow Stanford University in 1965-66 and 1968-69, Fellow Austrian Ministry of Education in 1968-69, Old Gold Fellow (May Brodbeck Fellow) Iowa in 1977; Life member, MLA; Founding member, International Herder Society and Goethe Society of North America- Hon. Member, Egyptian Society of Literary Criticism; Member, Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (England); Goethe Gesellschaft, Deutsche Schiller Gesellschaft, America and Canada Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, lnternat. Vereinigung fur Germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft.

Ingeborg had many hobbies. She enjoyed rowing and horseback riding, traveling, reading, writing, gardening and being with friends, family and her beloved cat, Aiida.

Ingeborg is survived by her sister, Erika Geilert-Solbrig of Hamburg, Germany; her niece, Sabine Maria Schoeneich of Rellingen, Germany; and her close friends, Lee Siglin and Kathy Wachel.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Reinhold and Hildegard Solbrig.

Online condolences may be made at www.lensingfuneral.com.