Erich Köhler (Romanist)

Erich Köhler (born March 9, 1924 in Langenau ; † June 3, 1981 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Romance studies and literary scholar .

Live and act

Köhler, who took part in the battle of Stalingrad at the age of eighteen and spent two years in the hospital, studied in Leipzig with Hans-Georg Gadamer , Theodor Litt , Hermann August Korff , Theodor Frings , Ernst Bloch , Eduard von Jan , Philipp August Becker and Werner Krauss . He received his doctorate from Krauss in 1950 with a work inspired by Becker on the history of the ancient Provencal contested poem . As assistant to Hellmuth Petriconi , he completed his habilitation in Hamburg in 1955 with ideal and reality in the courtly epic . The work became a standard work. From 1958 to 1970 he was full professor for Romance Philology at the University of Heidelberg , from 1970 to 1981 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau as the successor to Hugo Friedrich . Köhler had been a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 1967 . His academic students included Ulrich Mölk , Fritz Nies , Matthias Walz , Karlheinz Bender , Dietmar Rieger , Henning Krauss and the Romance studies scholar Karl Kunze (born 1934) from Breslau.

Köhler's estate is in the Augsburg University Archives . In his birthplace Langenau, a street was named after him (Doctor Erich Köhler-Straße).

Fonts

• Marcel Proust . (= Kleine Vandenhoeck series, 66) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1958; 3rd, act. and exp. Ed. With Angelika Corbineau-Hoffmann. Schmidt, Berlin 1994 ISBN 3-503-03056-5
• Madame de Lafayette's La princesse de Clèves . (= Studies on the form of the classic novel series A, 43. de Gruyter, Hamburg 1959)
• Trobador poetry and courtly novel. Essays on French and Provencal literature of the Middle Ages (= New Contributions to Literary Studies, 15th Rütten & Loening , Berlin 1962 ISSN  0548-2712 )
• Ed. Together with Hans Robert Jauß and [later] Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht : Outline of the Romanesque literatures of the Middle Ages. (GRLMA). 11 volumes. Winter, Heidelberg 1968-1993
• Esprit and Arcadian freedom . Essays from the world of Romania. Athenaeum, Frankfurt 1966, 1972; Extended reprint of the 2nd edition Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1984 ISBN 3-7705-2263-X .
• as ed .: The old French courtly novel . (= Ways of research, 425) Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , Darmstadt 1978 ISBN 3-534-06453-4
  • L'aventure chevaleresque. Ideal et réalité dans le roman courtois. Etudes sur la forme des plus anciens poèmes d'Arthur et du Graal . Translated from the 2nd edition by Eliane Kaufholz. Gallimard, Paris 1974.
• The literary chance, the possible and the necessity. W. Fink, Munich 1973, again Fischer pocket books literary studies 11928. Fischer, Frankfurt 1993 ISBN 3-596-11928-6
  • In French: Le hasard en littérature. Le possible et la nécessité. Translated by Eliane Kaufholz. Klincksieck, Paris 1986 ISBN 2-252-02539-5
• Mediations. Romance contributions to a historical-sociological literary study. W. Fink, Munich 1976 ISBN 3-7705-1442-4
• Sociologia della fin'amor. Saggi trobardorici (= Ydioma tripharium, 2). Liviana, Padua 1976 (2nd ed. Ibid 1987 ISBN 88-7675-188-2 )
• Per una teoria materialistica della letteratura, Saggi francesi (= Le forme del significato, 19). Liguori, Naples 1980 ISBN 88-207-0854-X
• Literary sociological perspectives. Collected Essays. (= Studia Romanica, 46) Ed. Henning Krauss. Winter, Heidelberg 1982 ISBN 3-533-03118-7
• Lectures on the history of French literature. Edited by Henning Krauss and Dietmar Rieger. 11 volumes. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1983–1987. 2nd edition of the complete works of the University Library Freiburg im Breisgau 2006
  • Volume 1, Part 1: Middle Ages. Ed. Henning Krauss. 1985 ISBN 3-17-008603-0 online
  • Volume 1, Part 2: Middle Ages. Ed. Dietmar Rieger. 1985 ISBN 3-17-008604-9 online
  • Volume 2: Pre-Classical. Ed. Henning Krauss. 1983 ISBN 3-17-007693-0 online
  • Volume 3, Part 1: Classic. Ed. Henning Krauss. 1983 ISBN 3-17-007697-3 online
  • Volume 3, Part 2: Classical. Ed. Henning Krauss. 1983 ISBN 3-17-007698-1 online
  • Volume 4: Early Education. Ed. Dietmar Rieger. 1983 ISBN 3-17-008139-X online
  • Volume 5, Part 1: Enlightenment. Ed. Dietmar Rieger. 1984 ISBN 3-17-008140-3 online
  • Volume 5, Part 2: Enlightenment. Ed. Dietmar Rieger. 1984 ISBN 3-17-008141-1 online
  • Volume 6, Part 1: The 19th Century. Ed. Dietmar Rieger. 1987 ISBN 3-17-008861-0 online
  • Volume 6, Part 2: The 19th Century. Ed. Dietmar Rieger. 1987 ISBN 3-17-009021-6 online
  • Volume 6, Part 3: The 19th Century. Volume 3. Ed. Henning Krauss, Dietmar Rieger. 1987 ISBN 3-17-009237-5 online

literature

• Erich Köhler †. In: Romance Yearbook. Vol. 32, 1981, ISSN  0080-3898 , pp. 9-12, doi : 10.1515 / 9783110244892.9
• Ulrich Mölk: Erich Köhler (1924–1981). In: Journal for Romance Philology. Vol. 97, 1981, ISSN  0049-8661 , pp. 683-687
• Fritz Nies: In memoriam Erich Köhler. In: Germanic-Romanic monthly. NF Vol. 31, 1981, ISSN  0016-8904 , pp. 386-389
• In memoriam Erich Köhler (= Romance Journal for the History of Literature. Vol. 8, No. 1/4, ISSN  0343-379X ). Winter, Heidelberg 1984
• Henning Krauss, Dietmar Rieger (ed.): Medieval studies. Erich Köhler in memory. (= Studia Romanica, 55) Winter, Heidelberg 1984 ISBN 3-533-03516-6 (with list of publications)
• Henning Krauss: Sociology of literature and cultural studies. On the work of Erich Köhler (1924–1981). Series: Romanische Forschungen, 119, 2007, ISSN  0035-8126 , pp. 464-480
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986. Springer, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-540-88834-5 , sv

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Köhler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Inaugural speech at the Heidelberg Academy
• CV with picture
• Köhler: Principes historico-sociologiques et science littéraire . First in: Travaux de l'Institut d'Études ibériques et latino-américaine de Strasbourg, Vol. 13-14, 1973-1974, pp. 3-10

Remarks

1. ↑ Tübingen 1956, 3rd edition 2002
2. ↑ Online see below: Lectures.