Dieter Woll

Dieter Woll (born April 27, 1933 in Aachen ; † September 15, 2012 in Marburg ) was a German Romanist , Hispanic and Lusitanist .

life and work

Woll studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and received his doctorate there in 1958 under Harri Meier with the work Reality and Ideality in the Poetry of Mário de Sa-Carneiros (Bonn 1960, Portuguese: Realidade e idealidade na lirica de Sa-Carneiro , Lisbon 1968 ). From 1957 to 1959 he was a lecturer in Coimbra . After working as an assistant and residing in Brazil, he completed his habilitation in 1971 in Bonn with the thesis Machado de Assis. The development of his narrative work (Braunschweig 1972). From 1972 to 1973 he represented Mario Wandruszka's chair at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and came to linguistics through contact with his colleague Eugenio Coseriu . From 1977 to 1982 Woll was professor for translation studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (with special emphasis on Portuguese-Brazilian), from 1982 to 1998 he was full professor for Romance philology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg .

Martin Hummel and Christina Ossenkop were among his students .

Other works

• (with Jean Roche and Hans Bayer) The Germans in Brazilian Literature , Bonn 1968
• (Ed. With Hans Dieter Bork and Artur Greive ) Romanica Europaea et Americana. Festschrift for Harri Meier January 8, 1980 , Bonn 1980
• (Ed. With Harri Meier ) Portuguese fairy tales , Düsseldorf / Cologne 1975, Hamburg 1992, Munich 1993

literature

• Lusitanica et Romanica. Festschrift for Dieter Woll for his 65th birthday , ed. by Martin Hummel and Christina Ossenkop, Hamburg 1998

Web links

• Obituary for Prof. Dr. Dieter Woll (1933-2012) ( Memento from January 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )