Alfred Noyer-Weidner

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Alfred Noyer-Weidner (born August 31, 1921 in Schönwald (Bavaria) ; † December 26, 2001 in Seefeld-Hechendorf ) was a German Romance studies , Italian and literary scholar .

life and work

Noyer-Weidner studied Romance studies in Munich from 1946 with Gerhard Rohlfs and Hans Rheinfelder, as well as Latin studies with Friedrich Klingner . He received his doctorate in linguistics from Rohlfs in 1950 on the onomatopoeic and phonetic meaning of the vowel "i" in Romance languages and completed his habilitation in 1955 with a literary work on The Enlightenment in Northern Italy (Munich 1957). In 1959 he became full professor for Romance Philology in Saarbrücken , 1962 in Vienna and 1964 (as successor to Hans Rheinfelder) in Munich. In 1972 he switched to the newly created chair for Italian Philology (and founded the first German Institute for Italian Philology). In 1986 he retired. In 1991 he founded the German Association of Italianists, of which he became honorary chairman in 1993. Noyer-Weidner had been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1970 and was the literary editor of the journal for French language and literature from 1971 to 1987 . He was a corresponding member of the Accademia Patavina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Padua. The editors Klaus W. Hempfer and Gerhard Regn dedicated the Festschrift Interpretation to him . The Paradigm of European Renaissance Literature , Wiesbaden 1983, the colloquium volume Der Petrarkistische Diskurs , Stuttgart 1993, and the commemorative volume Petrarca Lektüren , Stuttgart 2003.

Fonts

  • Dealing with texts. 2 volumes. Stuttgart 1986 (selection of his writings)

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personal data
SURNAME Noyer-Weidner, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist, Italianist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönwald (Bavaria)
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2001
Place of death Seefeld-Hechendorf