Erwin Koppen

Erwin Koppen (born December 2, 1929 in Berlin ; † June 11, 1990 in Bonn ) was a German comparative literary scholar , Romance studies and German studies .

life and work

From 1949 Koppen studied German and Romance languages ​​in Mainz . He received his doctorate in 1956 under Edmund Schramm on Laclos' "Liaisons dangereuses" in criticism (1782-1850). Contribution to the history of a literary misunderstanding (Wiesbaden 1961). From 1959 to 1962 he was a lecturer in Milan. In 1962 he became Horst Rüdiger's assistant in Bonn . There he completed his habilitation in 1970 with decadent Wagnerism. Studies on European Fin de Siècle literature (Berlin 1973). After Rüdiger's retirement in 1973, Koppen succeeded him in the chair for comparative literature. After Rüdiger's death in 1985, he also took over the editing of the Arcadia magazine .

Other works

• Literature and photography. On the history and topic of a media discovery , Stuttgart 1987
• Thomas Mann y Don Quixote: ensayos de literatura comparada , Barcelona 1990
• (Editor together with Horst Rüdiger) Small literary lexicon , 4th edition, 4 vols., Bern 1966, 1969, 1972, 1973

literature

• Dialogue of the arts. Intermedial case studies on 19th and 20th century literature. Festschrift for Erwin Koppen , ed. by Maria Moog-Grünewald and Christoph Rodiek, Frankfurt a. M. 1989
• In memoriam Erwin Koppen  : Speeches given on January 26, 1991 at the memorial ceremony of the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn by Helmut Keipert, Beda Allemann, Jürgen von Stackelberg and Maria Moog-Grünewald, Bonn 1992
• Obituaries in: Arcadia 25, 1990, pp. 221-223 and Neohelicon 19, pp. 335-337

Web links

• Literature by and about Erwin Koppen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Erwin Koppen in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)