Horst Heintze (Romanist)

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Horst Heintze (born June 29, 1923 in Naumburg (Saale) ; † May 25, 2018 in Schnepfenthal ) was a German Romanist and Italianist .

life and work

Heintze studied from 1946, was a student of Victor Klemperer from 1948 and received his doctorate in 1952 at the University of Halle with the work Hippolyte Taine's Development. An investigation into the scientific theory of history and literature by H. Taine . He went to Berlin with Klemperer, was a lecturer in Halle from 1954 to 1963 and completed his habilitation in 1965 at the Humboldt University in Berlin with Rita Schober with the font Dante Alighieri. Citizens and poets between the Middle Ages and the modern era (Berlin / Weimar 1965, 1981). From 1975 to 1988 Heintze was Professor of Romance Philology at the Humboldt University. He last lived in Schnepfenthal-Rödichen . At the age of 94, he published his memoirs in 2017 under the title Rhymed and Unrhymed. Studies and Memories of a Romanist .

His academic legacy is located in the "Romanist Archives" in the Augsburg University Archives .

Other works

  • with Erwin Silzer (Ed.): In the service of language. Festschrift for Victor Klemperer for his 75th birthday on October 9, 1956. Halle (Saale) 1958.
  • with Edith Heintze: Catalog of the Dante library by Friedrich Schneider in the possession of the German State Library. Berlin 1965.
  • Vico, Giovanni Battista . In: Erhard Lange, Dietrich Alexander (Hrsg.): Philosophenlexikon . The European Book, West Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88436-133-3 , pp. 905-909.
  • with Edith Heintze (ed.): Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel. 2 volumes. Leipzig 1970, 1972, Frankfurt am Main 1985, 1987, 1989; in 1 volume: Frankfurt am Main 2003, Augsburg 2005.
  • Rabelais. Leipzig 1974.
  • with Giuliano Staccioli, Babette Hesse (ed.): Lorenzo the Magnificent and the culture in Florence of the 15th century. Berlin 1995.
  • with Edith Heintze (translator): Lorenzo de 'Medici: Selected works = Opere scelte. Edited and introduced by Manfred Lentzen. Tubingen 1998.
  • (Translator): Luigi Pulci : Morgante. 4 volumes. Berlin 2008.
  • Memories of a homme de lettres named Victor Klemperer. Glienicke / Madison 2011.
  • The rhyming and the absurd. Studies and Memories of a Romanist . Galda-Verlag, Glienicke 2017

literature

  • Irmgard Osols-Wehden, Giuliano Staccioli, Babette Hesse (eds.): Language and literature of Romania. Tradition and Effect. Festschrift for the 7th Birthday of Horst Heintze. Berlin 1993.
  • Eckhard Höfner, Falk Peter Weber (ed.): Politia litteraria. Festschrift for Horst Heintze on his 75th birthday. Glienicke / Cambridge 1998.
  • Victor Klemperer: So I sit between all the chairs. Diaries 1950–1959. Ed. Walter Nowojski. Berlin 1999, p. 758.
  • Rita Schober: The development of Romance studies at Humboldt University in difficult times. In: Klaus-Dieter Ertler (Hrsg.): Romance studies as a passion. Great moments in recent specialist history II. Vienna / Berlin 2011, pp. 339–390.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Renaissance Society
personal data
SURNAME Heintze, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2018
Place of death Schnepfenthal