Alfons Hilka

Alfons Hilka (born July 30, 1877 in Walzen ; † June 21, 1939 in Göttingen ) was a German Romance scholar, text editor and narrative researcher in the fields of Old French and Middle Latin literature .

life and work

Hilka studied Romance, English and classical philology, comparative linguistics and Sanskrit in Breslau . He received his doctorate in 1902 with a thesis on direct speech as a stylistic artifact in the novels of Chrestien de Troyes and then worked as a senior teacher (1903-1918). He completed his habilitation in 1912 with the edition of Li Romanz d'Athis et Prophilias (L'Estoire d'Athenes) (Dresden 1912, 1916), represented the professorship for Romance Philology in Bonn in 1914/15 and became a full professor in Greifswald in 1918 , 1921 in Göttingen . Since 1925 he was a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . Hilka endeavored to take a comprehensive inventory of Middle Latin poetry and published numerous richly commented editions, especially texts that were important in the history of motifs.

Works

A directory of his writings can be found in Richard Baum and Hans Helmut Christmann in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch . Volume 18, 1967, p. 56 f.

Contributions to Latin narrative literature of the Middle Ages. Weidmann, Berlin 1928. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
On the story of a Latin saying of the devil. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1934. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

literature

Hans Helmut Christmann in: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales . Volume 6, Delivery 4/5, 1990, Sp. 1032-1036.
Arthur Långfors in: Romania. Volume 65, 1939, p. 558.
Edward Schröder in: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Volume 91, 1939/40, p. 37 f.
W. Theodor Elwert : Hilka, Alfons. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 145 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Alfons Hilka in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 114.

personal data
SURNAME	Hilka, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rollers
DATE OF DEATH	June 21, 1939
Place of death	Goettingen

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 114.