Barbara Wehr

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Barbara Wehr (born October 9, 1947 in Erlangen ) is a German Romance studies and linguist.

life and work

Barbara Wehr, daughter of the Arabist Hans Wehr , graduated from high school in Münster in 1966 and briefly studied at the Munich University of Music . In 1968 she switched to studying Romance Philology and General Linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). From 1971 to 1975 she worked at the Dictionnaire de l'occitan médiéval (DOM) and (after the master's examination in 1975) from 1977 assistant at the chair of Helmut Stimm . In 1981, she was with the thesis discourse strategies in Romanesque - A contribution to the Romanesque syntax (fool, Tübingen 1984) PhD . She qualified as a professor in 1989 (after the death of Helmut Stimm in 1987, supervised by Wolf-Dieter Stempel ) with the text SE-Diathese in Italian (Narr, Tübingen 1995). In her “self-description as a Romanist” she mentions the Uralist Hartmut Katz (1943–1996) and the linguist Göran Hammarström (1922–2019) as further mentors . From 1992 to 2011 she was professor of Italian and French linguistics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , where she prematurely said goodbye to grief over the Bologna Process , which she perceived as the victory of bureaucracy over academic freedom. She was on the board of the Study House for Celtic Languages ​​and Cultures (SKSK) in Königswinter .

Works (selection)

  • (Ed. With Helga Thomaßen) Discourse analysis. Studies on spoken French. Files of the eponymous section of the 1st congress of the Franco-Romanist Association (Mainz, 23-26 September 1998) . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • (Ed. With Frédéric Nicolosi) Pragmatique historique et syntaxe / Historical pragmatics and syntax. Files of the eponymous section of the XXXI. Romance Day (Bonn, September 27 - October 1, 2009) . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2012.

literature

  • Barbara Wehr: “Description of yourself as a Romanist”. In: Klaus-Dieter Ertler (Hrsg.): Romance studies as a passion. Great moments in recent specialist history IV. LIT, Münster 2015, pp. 389–402 (with picture).

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personal data
SURNAME Wehr, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH gain