András Horn

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András Jenő Horn (born February 11, 1934 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian - Swiss literary scholar .

Life

Horn received his doctorate from the University of Basel in 1960. He worked as a high school teacher. In 1977 he received his habilitation at the University of Basel and in 1983 he was appointed associate professor for literary theory . He also taught comparative literature , the Hungarian language and Hungarian (cultural) history . In 2005 he retired.

In 1991 Horn received the Science Prize of the City of Basel .

Horn lives in Basel.

Fonts (selection)

  • Byron's "Don Juan" and the Einhteenth-century English novel (= Swiss Anglistic Works. Vol. 51). Francke, Tübingen 1962 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1960).
  • Art and freedom. A critical interpretation of the Hegelian aesthetic. Nijhoff, The Hague 1969.
  • History of the anthropological question in English aesthetics from Bacon to Alison (= work on aesthetics, didactics, literature and linguistics. Vol. 3). Lang, Bern 1976.
  • Literary modality. The experience of reality, possibility and necessity in literature (= contributions to recent literary history. Third part, vol. 55). Winter, Heidelberg 1981.
  • The literary: formalistic attempts to define it. De Gruyter, Berlin 1978 (habilitation thesis, University of Basel, 1977).
  • The comic in the mirror of literature. Attempt a systematic introduction. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1988.
  • Basics of literary aesthetics. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993.
  • Mythical thinking and literature. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995.
  • Theory of the literary genres. A manual for students of literary studies. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1998.
  • The creative in literature. Theories of Poetic Imagination. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e András Horn. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
  2. ^ Status of the undersigned , website of the Zurich Appeal, accessed on March 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c Preview of the first half of 2008 (PDF), website of the Königshausen & Neumann publishing house, accessed on March 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Horn, András
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horn, András Jenő (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Swiss literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest