Albert Junker

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 13.
personal data
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