Andreas Wesch

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Andreas Wesch (born December 2, 1961 in Darmstadt ; † January 11, 2008 in Cologne ) was a German Romance scholar, Hispanic scholar, Catalan scholar and linguist.

Life

Wesch received his doctorate in 1992 at the Free University of Berlin under Jens Lüdtke with the work Annotated Edition and Linguistic Analysis of the Información de los Jerónimos, Santo Domingo 1517 (Tübingen 1993). He completed his habilitation in 1998 as an assistant to Hans-Martin Gauger at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with a comparison of the variety systems of Spanish and French. After being represented in Strasbourg and Constance, from 2001 he was Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Cologne .

Andreas Wesch - Grave on the old Gartenweg cemetery in Cologne-Weiden

Wesch was president of the German Association of Catalans from 2001 to 2006 . The association has named a funding program after him.

Andreas Wesch was buried in Cologne in the old Weiden cemetery Gartenweg .

Works

  • (Ed. With Jenny Brumme) Norms and subnorms in past and present. Methods of their reconstruction and description, Vienna 1999
  • Basic Spanish Linguistics, Stuttgart 2001, 5th edition 2006
  • (Ed. With others) History of language as history of varieties. Contributions to the diachronic variety linguistics of Spanish and other Romance languages, on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Jens Lüdtke, Tübingen 2002
  • (Ed. With Claus D. Pusch) Verbal periphrases in the (Ibero-) Romance languages, Hamburg 2003
  • (Ed. With Carsten Sinner) El castellano en las tierras de habla catalana, Madrid / Frankfurt am Main 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Andreas Wesch
personal data
SURNAME Wesch, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance philologist, Hispanist, Catalanist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2008
Place of death Cologne