Andreas Blank (Romanist)

Andreas Blank (born April 26, 1961 in Lahr / Black Forest ; † January 20, 2001 in Kirchhain ) was a German Romance studies and linguist.

life and work

Blank studied in Freiburg, graduated in 1986, then belonged to the Collaborative Research Center “Transitions and areas of tension between orality and written form” and received his doctorate in 1990 under Hans-Martin Gauger on the literization of orality. Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Raymond Queneau (Tübingen 1991). In 1991 he became Peter Koch's assistant at the Free University of Berlin . There he completed his habilitation in 1996 with the thesis Principles of the lexical change of meaning using the example of the Romance languages (Tübingen 1997).

After receiving a Heisenberg scholarship (which was not taken advantage of), he was appointed to a chair for Romance Philology at the University of Marburg in 1997 .

He died of cancer at the age of 39.

Other works

• (Ed. With Peter Koch) Historical semantics and cognition , Berlin 1999
• Introduction to lexical semantics for Romanists , Tübingen 2001
• (Ed. With Peter Koch) Cognitive Romance Onomasiology and Semasiology , Tübingen 2003

literature

• Peter Koch / Richard Waltereit in: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Katalanistenverband 40, 2001, pp. 50–51
• Peter Koch in: Romanische Forschungen 115, 2003, pp. 484–488

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Blank in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-180.html (obituary by Richard Waltereit)