Albin Eduard Beau
Albin Eduard Beau (born December 23, 1907 in Hamburg ; † March 1, 1969 in Coimbra ) was a German philologist, Romanist and Lusitanist .
life and work
Beau studied in Hamburg, received his doctorate in 1930 on Stendhal's relationship to music, and in the same year became a German lecturer at the German Institute of Coimbra University . He received his doctorate there again in 1943 with As relações germânicas do humanismo de Damião de Góis (Coimbra 1941), completed his habilitation on April 20, 1944 in Berlin with Franz Six on The Development of Portuguese National Consciousness (Hamburg 1945) and became professor of German in Coimbra. From 1943 he was also general secretary of the German Cultural Institute in Lisbon.
Other works
- (Translation with Joseph M. Piel ) Oliveira Salazar , Portugal. The becoming of a new state. Speeches and documents, Essen 1938
- Langenscheidt's pocket dictionary of Portuguese and German. Part 2. German-Portuguese, Munich 1953 (The Portuguese-German part is from Friedrich Irmen)
- Small literary lexicon. Vol. 1. Authors. 1. From the beginnings to the 19th century, Bern 1969
literature
- Maria Manuela Gouveia Delille in: Revista Portuguesa de Filologia 15, 1969-71, pp. 789-793.
- Karl Heinz Delille: Albin Eduard Beau - 40 anos ao serviço da Universidade de Coimbra, in: Actas do I Colóquio da APHELLE, Universidade de Aveiro 2002, pp. 233–241.
- Frank-Rutger Hausmann , "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”. 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 522-538, 725.
Web links
- Literature by and about Albin Eduard Beau in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beau, Albin Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beau, Albin; Beau, Eduard; Beau, Albin E .; Beau, A. Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist, Romanist and Lusitanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1969 |
| Place of death | Coimbra |