Albert Hauf

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Albert Guillem Hauf i Valls (* 1938 in Sóller , Mallorca , Spain ) is a Spanish philologist, historian and literary critic of German origin. He specializes in Catalan and Occitan literature.

Life

Hauf studied Romance Philology at the University of Barcelona with a scholarship from the Joan March Foundation. He wrote a small dissertation on the edition of the Aragonese text of the agricultural treaty s by Palladius Rutilius Emilianus when he was licensed. He obtained his doctorate in the same university with a dissertation supervised by Professor Martí de Riquer on the Vita Christi of the medieval Catalan writer Francesc Eiximenis and the medieval tradition of the Vitae Christi . In 1977 he was awarded the IEC- awarded Nicolau d'Olwer Prize for this dissertation .

Albert Hauf

In 1964 he began working as a teacher of Spanish and Catalan at Cardiff University ( Wales ) . He became a professor of Hispanic studies there. He then also began courses in Catalan language and literature. He was with the political line of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher disagree, and that's why he left the UK in 1987. He then went to the University of Valencia , where he is currently Professor of Catalan Philology.

Since 1992 he has been involved in research projects, particularly on the golden age of 15th century Valencian literature. These projects were subsidized by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Valencian Department of Culture. Until 2007 he supervised sixteen doctoral theses. He has organized conferences and academic collections: The cultural atmosphere of Valencia during the second half of the 15th century , Tirant lo Blanc and his translator , Tirant lo Blanc , James I , Ausiàs Marc , Ausiàs Marc's readings , Francesc Eiximenis .

He is a member of the Valencian Academy of Language , the University Institute of Valencian Philology and the Institute of Catalan Studies . He was the founder and president of the International Society for Catalan Language and Literature.

He is also a member of the following societies: Valencian Institute for Studies and Research (after Joan Fuster ), Director of the Anglo-Catalan Society (1973–1978), Teachers' Assembly of the University of Valencia (1995–2001); Director of the National Library of Madrid (1995–1997); Mossèn Alcover Foundation (2001); Jury of the Joan Fuster Essay Prizes (1989 and 1991) and National Prizes for Humanistic Education (Essay, 1991 and 1992; Novel, 1993; Literature, 1998), awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture; Editing commission for the works of Francesc Eiximenis; Edition commission for the works of Ramon Llull. He has also served on the editorial board of the following magazines: Estudis Romànics , Caplletra , Llengua i Literatura and the ELLC . He is finally advisor to the management of the following magazines: Révue d'Études Catalanes ( France ), Tesserae ( United Kingdom ), Catalan Review ( United States ), Afers , Studia Philologica Valentina and Ausa .

Works

He has written articles (both popular and academic) for various newspapers. He has also participated in television and radio shows. He has also worked with Martí de Riquer and Mario Vargas Llosa on a CDR on Joanot Martorell's Tirant lo Blanc .

He is the author of approximately two hundred research works listed in ELL, 4 (1998), 261-271. The following works can be exhibited:

  • Edition of Speculum Humanae Salvationis .
  • Teresa Pérez Higuera and Albert Hauf i Valls. Estudios y comentarios , Madrid, Edilán, 2000, 2 volumes.
  • Edition of Vita Christi , Isabel de Villena , Barcelona, ​​Ed. 62, 1995.
  • Edition of Speculum Animae , (attributed to Isabel de Villena), Madrid, Edilán, 1993, 2 volumes.
  • D'Eiximenis a Sor Isabel de Villena. Aportació a l'estudi de la nostra cultura medieval , Biblioteca Sanchis Guarner, 19, València-Barcelona, ​​1990 (Serra d'Or Critique Prize, 1991)
  • Edition of Joanot Martorell's Tirant lo Blanc , 2 volumes, Valencia, Generalitat Valenciana, 1992 and 1990.
  • Edition of La Flor de les Istòries d'Orient , Barcelona, ​​1989 (1990 Massó i Torrent Prize for the best work on medieval themes).
  • Edition of Joan Eiximenos Quarantena de Contemplació , editions of the Abbey of Montserrat , 1986.
  • Contemplació de la Passió , Barcelona, ​​1983.
  • Francesc Eiximenis' Lo Crestià (Selection), Barcelona, ​​Ed. 62, 1983.
  • El Ars Praedicandi de Fr. Alfonso d'Alprao , Rome, 1979;
  • Introductions for José Pous, Visionarios, beguinos y fraticelos , Alicante, 1996, 9–112; and for Joan Fuster's, Misògins i enamorat , Alzira, 1995.
  • 25 articles by him have been published in the Grundriss der Romanisches Literaturen des Mittelalters , XI / 2 (Heidelberg, 1993).
  • He has done translations from German, English and French. The Spanish version of Arthur Terrys , Catalan Literature: Literatura Catalana (Barcelona-Caracas. Mexico, 1977 and 1983) and the additional bibliography must be underlined.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He took part in the congress about Jacob I of Aragon in Gandia on 26./27. November 2007, see Conferència d'Albert Hauf "Jaume I i la cultura trobadoresca". Gandia, 27 de novembre de 2008 . alfonselvell.com. Archived from the original on September 6, 2011. Retrieved on December 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ He also took part in a series of lectures on Francesc Eiximenis in Barcelona on 16./17. November 2009 part: Cicle de conferències Francesc Eiximenis . escriptors.cat. Retrieved September 4, 2011.

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SURNAME Hauf, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauf i Valls, Albert Guillem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish philologist, historian and literary critic of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH He shall