Eberhard Geisler

Eberhard Geisler (born January 8, 1950 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) is a German literary scholar , author, translator and critic.

Life

Eberhard Geisler studied German and Romance languages at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Madrid and Hamburg . He received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen with a thesis on the subject of money in Francisco de Quevedo's work . In later works he also deals with the impact of economic questions in literature, now extended into the philosophy of value, for example with Lope de Vega , Calderón , Luis de Góngora , Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Hölderlin . From 1981 to 1986 he was a research assistant at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature Studies at the Free University of Berlin . The habilitation thesis was for the literary work of Henri Michaux . In 1995 he received a professorship for Ibero-Romanic literatures at the University of Mainz .

Geisler mainly translates Catalan literature . His reviews appear in the German-language press. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Heimito von Doderer Society .

Honors

In 1990 Eberhard Geisler was awarded the translation prize of the Catalan government .

Web links

• Literature by and about Eberhard Geisler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Eberhard Geisler in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• List of publications (page of the Romance Studies seminar at JGU Mainz)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolf Lustig, David Schumann: Romance Studies Uni Mainz. (No longer available online.) Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, April 27, 2016, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on April 27, 2016 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.