Erich Loos

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Erich Loos (born September 4, 1913 in Wetzlar ; † July 2, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German Romance studies and literary scholar .

life and work

Loos was forcibly de-registered as a student in 1933 and banned from studying until 1945. He received his doctorate in 1950 from Fritz Schalk in Cologne with Charles Pinot Duclos as a moralist of the eighteenth century and his importance for the status of the “gens de lettres” and habilitated there with Baldassare Castiglione's “Libro del Cortegiano”. Studies on the Cinquecento conception of virtue (Frankfurt 1955).

After substituting professorships in Bonn and Heidelberg, he was appointed to the Free University of Berlin , first in 1960 as associate professor for Romance philology, and from 1963 to 1978 as full professor. He declined calls to Freiburg, Bonn and Munich. From 1966 to 1968 he was dean. In 1977 he became a member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences .

Loos grave in Nikolassee cemetery

As dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the Free University, Erich Loos gave the address at the funeral service for Benno Ohnesorg .

Erich Loos' grave is in the Nikolassee cemetery in Berlin.

Other works

  • (Ed.) Giacomo Casanova, story of my life , 10 volumes, Berlin 1964–1967
  • (Ed.) Crébillon the Younger, The Complete Works in Eight Volumes , Berlin 1968–1972
  • The logical structure of the "Commedia" and the Ordo presentation by Dante , Wiesbaden 1984
  • (Ed.) (With Hermann Sauter) Paul Thiry Baron d'Holbach, The entire preserved correspondence , Wiesbaden 1986
  • The importance of music in Dante's work , Stuttgart 1988
  • Self-analysis and self-insight with Petrarca and Montaigne , Stuttgart 1988
  • (Ed.) Kurt Ringger, From the Middle Ages to the Modern: Contributions to French and Italian Literature. Commemorative volume , Tübingen 1991

literature

  • Italy and Romania in Humanism and Renaissance. Festschrift for Erich Loos on his 70th birthday , ed. by Klaus W. Hempfer and Enrico Straub, Wiesbaden 1983 (with list of publications)
  • Come l'uom s'etterna: Contributions to the literary, linguistic and art history of Italy and Romania. Festschrift for Erich Loos on his 80th birthday, published on behalf of the Berlin Renaissance Society. by Giuliano Staccioli and Irmgard Osols-Wehden, Berlin 1994
  • Sebastian Neumeister in: Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch 82, 2007, pp. 13-16
  • Hans-Günter Funke in: Romanische Forschungen 118, 2006, pp. 473-475

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Excerpts from the funeral speech for Benno Ohnesorg (with photo of the speaker), Berliner Morgenpost, June 6, 1967, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Loos, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 2006
Place of death Berlin