Curt Wittlin

Curt Joseph Wittlin (born April 13, 1941 in Reinach ; † September 23, 2019 in Tortosa ) was a Swiss Romance scholar and expert on medieval Catalan language and literature .

Curt Wittlin

Life

Wittlin studied Ibero-Romance philology, French linguistics and Italian literature at the University of Basel with Germà Colon , and later in Paris , Florence and Barcelona . He received his doctorate in 1965 with a dissertation on Guillem de Copons ' Catalan translation of Brunetto Latini's treasure . He became professor of Romance Philology and Historical Linguistics at the University of Saskatchewan (in Saskatoon , Canada ), to which he had come in 1967.

He specialized in editing medieval translations of texts by Cicero , Augustine of Hippos and John of Wales ' a. a. He has also worked on Ramon Llull and the history of the medieval Catalan libraries . He was also interested in the medieval Catalan writer Francesc Eiximenis . Curt Wittlin provided almost all modern editions of his works. Wittlin has also written numerous studies and articles on Francesc Eiximenis.

In 1997 he became a member of the Institute for Catalan Studies . From 1990 to 1993 he was President of the North American-Catalan Society . In 2000 he was awarded the Creu-de-Sant-Jordi Prize by the regional Catalan government .

Works

• Lo llibre de les dones d'Eiximenis (1980) with F. Naccarato
• Repertori d'expressions multinominals i de grups de sinònims en traduccions catalanes antigues (Prize Nicolau d'Olwer , 1989)
• La geometria secreta del tapís de Girona in Revista de Girona , 1991
• De la traducció literal a la creació literària ( Serra d'Or Prize, 1996)
• Entorn de les edicions de textos medievals in Estudis Romànics , 2004

Web links

• Biography on the website of the University of Saskatchewan (English)
• Wittlin, Curt J.  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .