Albert Junker
Albert Junker (born September 25, 1908 in Aschaffenburg ; † October 22, 2004 ) was a German Romance scholar , literary scholar and linguist .
life and work
Junker received his doctorate in Munich in 1932 (under the name Adalbert Junker) under Karl Vossler on the importance of the pre-romanticists for the development of the French written language (Aschaffenburg 1932). He was then a student of Adalbert Hämel . After military service and imprisonment, he completed his habilitation, became a lecturer in Romance philology in Würzburg and, in 1949, an adjunct professor. In 1949/1950 he taught as the successor to Adalbert Hämel at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg and in 1953 (again as the successor of his teacher) became professor in Erlangen . In 1965 he followed a call to Würzburg to the newly created third chair for Romance literary studies and retired in 1976 . Junker headed the International Office at Würzburg University for many years. He died at the age of 96.
more publishments
- Growth and changes in the latest Italian vocabulary. Erlangen 1955
- State of research on the Roland song. In: Germanic-Romance monthly. Volume 6, 1956, pp. 98-144
- The importance of the French spirit in the context of European culture. Heidelberg 1956 (French Paris 1958) [talk]
- Classical considerations by a new Romance philologist. Aschaffenburg 1963
literature
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Arani Verlags-GmBH., Berlin, 1967, p. 883.
Web links
- Literature by and about Albert Junker in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 13.
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SURNAME | Junker, Albert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romance studies, literary scholar and linguist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1908 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschaffenburg |
DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 2004 |