Ulrich Mölk

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Ulrich Mölk (born March 29, 1937 in Hamburg ; † July 10, 2019 in Göttingen ) was a German Romance scholar , literary scholar and medievalist .

Life

Mölk studied Romance, Arabic and Classical Philology in Hamburg and Heidelberg from 1955 to 1959 , a. a. with Erich Köhler . In 1960, he was there with a critical edition, together with comments on the stanzas of the troubadour Guiraut Riquiers Dr. phil. PhD. In 1966 he also completed his habilitation in Heidelberg and initially taught for a year as a private lecturer. In 1967 he accepted a call as a full professor of Romance literature at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In 1974 he moved to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , where he held the chair for Romance Philology until his retirement in 2005 . On April 30, 2005 he gave his farewell lecture on the lyric cycle  Fêtes galantes Paul Verlaines from 1869.

Mölk's academic specialty was the Romance languages ​​and literatures of the Middle Ages. He did research on medieval poetry such as trobadord poetry , epics and hagiographies . He created critical editions and translations of Béroul's adaptation of the Tristan and Isolde material , Herbert le Duc de Dammartin's Folque de Candie , Guiraut Riquiers Las Cansos and Romance women's songs of the Middle Ages. In addition, Mölk dealt intensively with the French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the genre of the novel .

Since 1979 Mölk was a full member of the philological-historical class of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , of which he was president and vice-president from 1990 to 1994. He was also a delegate of the German academies at the Union Académique Internationale (UAI). Between 1997 and 2001 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 529 “Internationality of National Literature”.

Since 1977, the year it was founded, he was co-editor of the Romance journal for the history of literature / Cahiers d'Histoire des Littératures Romanes (RZLG). He was also one of the members of the commission for the publication of the Middle Latin dictionary .

Works as an author

Books

  • The canons of Guiraut Riquiers . Heidelberg 1959
  • Trobar clus, trobar leu: studies on the poetry theory of the Trobador . Heidelberg 1966, republished Munich: Fink 1968.
  • Trobador poetry: an introduction . Munich-Zurich: Artemis 1982
  • Flaubert, Une nuit de Don Juan: critical text with additions . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1984
  • On the prehistory of the Gregorius legend: Vita and cult of St. Verona Metro . (= News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class; Born 1987, No. 4) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1987
  • Lohier et Malart: Fragment of a lost French heroic epic . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1988
  • Le roman de la rose: about the rose novel , Steinfurth: Rosenmuseum 1993
  • Femme fatale and yellow bloom. About Prosper Mérimée's novella Carmen . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1998
  • The oldest French cross song and the Erfurt Codex Amplonianus 8 ° 32 . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2001

Essays

The farewell to the bourgeois century: André Gides L'Immoraliste , in: European turn of the century: Sciences, literature and art around 1900 . Edited by Ulrich Mölk, Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Published by Wallstein Verlag 1999, pp. 113–129

Works as editor

  • Guiraut Riquier: Las Cansos . Heidelberg: winter 1962
  • Herbert le Duc de Dammartin: Folque de Candie . Tübingen: Niemeyer 1966
  • French literary aesthetics of the 12th and 13th centuries: prologues, digressions, epilogues . Tübingen: Niemeyer 1969
  • Romanesque women's songs . Munich: Fink 1989
  • Béroul: Tristan and Isolde . Munich: Fink 1991.
  • with Irmgard Fischer: Lancelot en prose: Bonn, University Library, manuscript S 526 (Codices illuminati medii aevi 28). Edition Lengenfelder, Munich 1992
  • Literature and law. Literary legal cases from antiquity to the present day . Göttingen: Wallstein 1996.
  • European turn of the century. Sciences, literature and art around 1900 . Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag 1999
  • Rule, ideology and conception of history in Alexander poems of the Middle Ages (Collaborative Research Center Internationality of National Literatures «Göttingen». Publication from the Göttingen Collaborative Research Center 529 «Internationality of National Literature» Volume 2, Series A, Literature and Cultural Areas in the Middle Ages). Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag 2002
  • European cultural magazines around 1900 as media of transnational and transdisciplinary perception: Report on the second colloquium of the commission "European turn of the century - literature, arts, sciences around 1900 in cross-border perception" (Göttingen, October 4th and 5th, 2004) . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2006
  • Middle ages . Tübingen: Stauffenburg-Verlag 2008
  • Heinrich Detering: Perspectives of modernization: the Paris world exhibition, the labor movement, colonial China in European and American cultural magazines around 1900: Report on the third and fourth colloquium of the commission "European turn of the century - literature, arts ..., Volume 8 of the Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-historical class. New series , Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Walter de Gruyter, 2010

Festschrift in honor of Mölk

  • Hinrich Hudde, Udo Schöning (Hrsg.): Literature: Stories and Understanding . Festschrift for Ulrich Mölk on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Heidelberg: Winter 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://adw-goe.de/lösungen/personendetails/person/ulrich-moelk/
  2. ↑ Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences 2008, Walter de Gruyter 2009, p. 24
  3. ^ Press release from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
personal data
SURNAME Mölk, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance scholar, literary scholar and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2019
Place of death Goettingen