Arnulf Stefenelli

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Arnulf Stefenelli (born January 14, 1938 in Dornbirn ; † October 9, 2002 ) was an Austrian Romance studies and linguist .

Career

Stefenelli received his doctorate in Vienna in 1961 with the work Die Volksssprach im Werk des Petron with regard to the Romance languages (publ. 1962) and completed his habilitation with a study of the wealth of synonyms in the old French poet language (Vienna 1967). From 1968 to 1982 he was full professor for Romance Philology at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (as successor to Heinrich Kuen ) and from 1982 at the University of Passau . From 1994 to 1996 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy there.

Other works

  • History of the core French vocabulary. Berlin 1981
  • The lexical archaisms in the fables of La Fontaine. Passau 1987
  • The fate of the Latin vocabulary in the Romance languages. Passau 1992
  • The vocabulary of Alessandro Manzoni in the "Promessi sposi". Passau 1996

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