Theophil Spoerri

This article deals with the Romanist. For the theologian of the same name see Theophil Spörri , for the pastor born in 1939 see Theophil Spoerri (theologian) .

Theophil Spoerri

Theophil Spoerri (born June 10, 1890 in La Chaux-de-Fonds , † December 24, 1974 in Caux ) was a Swiss Romance scholar .

Life

Spoerri came from a Methodist family of preachers and showed strong religious, social and political commitment.

Spoerri received his doctorate in Bern in 1916 on Il dialetto della Valsesia (Milan 1918). From 1912 to 1922 he was a grammar school teacher in Bern, from 1922 to 1956 full professor for Romance philology at the University of Zurich (1932 dean, 1948 to 1950 rector).

From 1942 to 1951 he published the Trivium magazine together with Emil Staiger . Swiss quarterly for literary studies and style criticism .

Spoerri was an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva (1950) and holder of the Golden Dante Medal (Florence 1962). In 1940 he was a co-founder and first president of the anti-Nazi Gotthard League and belonged to the New Helvetic Society and the Moral Armament ( Oxford Group ).

Spoerri had a cousin of the same name, the Methodist theologian Theophil Spörri (1887–1955). He was the uncle and adoptive father of Daniel Spoerri .

Other works

• Renaissance and Baroque with Ariosto and Tasso. Attempt to apply Wölfflin's view of art , Bern 1922
• Metaphysical forays. The starting point. In: Wissen und Leben , Vol. 23, 1920, pp. 481–494. ( Digitized version )
• From the threefold roots of poetry , Zurich / Leipzig 1925
• The three ways of knowing in science, poetry and revelation , Berlin 1926
• French metric , Munich 1929
• The Gods of the West: An Examination of Paganism in the Culture of Our Time , Berlin 1930
• How Dante's verse came about . In: Vox Romanica , Vol. 2, 1937, pp. 370-392. ( Digitized version )
• Introduction to the Divine Comedy , Zurich 1946
• Fundamental Forces of European History: How the World Could Be Fundamentally Different , Hamburg 1951
• The Structure of Existence: Introduction to the Art of Interpretation , Zurich 1951
• The Path to Form: Existence and Realization of Man in the Mirror of European Poetry , Hamburg 1954
• The hidden Pascal. An introduction to Pascal's thinking as a philosophy for the people of tomorrow , Hamburg 1955
• Small prelude to poetry: on the mystery of the beautiful and on the limits of poetry , Hamburg 1957
• Dante and European Literature: The Image of Man in the Structure of Language , Stuttgart 1963
• Dynamic from the silence. Frank Buchman's topicality , Luzern / Wuppertal 1971

Translation from the American

Howard, Peter: Frank Buchman's Secret . 3. Edition. Stuttgart 1962.

literature

• Tradition and design: Ceremony for Theophil Spoerri on his 60th birthday on June 10, 1950 , Zurich 1950
• The Trecento: Italy in the 14th Century . [By] Hans Conrad Peyer, Konrad Huber , Reto R. Bezzola , Peter Meyer, Walter Rüegg , Kurt von Fischer (lecture series, held at the Philosophical Faculty I of the University of Zurich in the winter semester 1959/60. Theophil Spoerri on his 70th birthday), Zurich 1961
• Theophil Spoerri personally. Lettres à sa famille et ses amis , ed. by Pierre Spoerri, 1975
• Pierre Spoerri [* 1926], My father and his youngest. Theophil Spoerri in his time , Stäfa 2002
• Christian Baertschi in: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland sv

Web links

• Christian Baertschi: Spörri [Spoerri], Theophil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Estate at the Archives for Contemporary History (PDF)