Claudius Armbruster

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Claudius Armbruster (born May 6, 1952 in Lörrach ) is a German Romanist. Until February 2018, he was Professor of Ibero-American and Iberian Literature and Media Studies at the University of Cologne , where he was head of the Portuguese-Brazilian Institute and director of the Center for Portuguese-Speaking World.

life and career

Claudius Armbruster studied Romance languages , German , Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille) and was a fellow of studienstiftung . After the first state examination in French, Spanish, German and social studies, he was a teaching officer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.

After working as a DAAD lecturer in Nancy / France, he passed the second state examination with distinction and received his doctorate with a thesis on The Work of Alejo Carpentier (1982). He then worked as a DAAD lecturer and visiting professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife / Brazil and headed the German-Brazilian cultural institute there. From 1988 he worked as teacher involved and then as a university lecturer (C2) at the Department of Romance Studies of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, where he in 1997 with a thesis on the work of Jorge Amado - Brazilian literature under the sign of ethnic, cultural and narrative synthesis habilitated.

In 1997 he taught and researched at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the University of Cologne , where he was professor for Ibero-American and Iberian literature and media studies from 1998. There he was the head of the Portuguese-Brazilian Institute at the University of Cologne and director of the Center for Portuguese-speaking World (ZPW), an institute at the same institution. From 2003 to 2009 Armbruster was President and from 2009 to 2011 Vice-President of the German Lusitanist Association , at whose meetings in 2003, 2005 and 2007 he headed a section. Since 2008 he has published the series Studies on the Portuguese-speaking World ( ABP Africa-Asia-Brazil-Portugal - Journal for the Portuguese-speaking World ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the institute . uni-koeln.de. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ Previous board members . lusitanistenverband.de. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Armbruster, Claudius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach