Fernand Hoffmann

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Fernand Hoffmann (born May 8, 1929 in Dudelange , Luxembourg ; † November 22, 2000 in Hollerich ) was a Luxembourg educator, writer and linguist.

Live and act

The son of a primary school teacher grew up in Hollerich and studied German , classical philology and history in Paris and Tübingen after graduating from high school in 1948 . He finished his studies with a Luxembourg state doctorate.

From 1953 he was a teacher at the Lycée de garçons in Luxembourg and from 1968 studied in Nancy, where after four years he received his doctorate “ docteur ès lettres ” with the dissertation “ Thomas Mann as a philosopher of disease ” .

In 1967 he was appointed professor at the Institut Pédagogique , in 1977 he was appointed to the “ Center Universitaire ” in Luxembourg. In 1992 he retired.

The Luxembourg literature and linguistics was Hoffmann's main field of work. He was also a connoisseur of dialect poetry in the German-speaking area. Hoffmann was the founding and honorary president of the International Dialect Institute in Vienna and a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim .

Fonts

Literary work

  • 1963 - Luxembourg at the table
  • 1965 - Öslinger stories
  • 1972 - The border
  • 1981 - Subsequent surveys
  • 1986 - The Tame Crow
  • 1988 - The litter meadow
  • 1992 - Pitterchen (novel in Luxembourgish language )

Scientific writings

  • 1964–1967 - History of Luxembourg dialect poetry. Vol. 1.2.
  • 1969 - Luxembourgish in class / Hoffmann, Fernand
  • 1969 - Luxemburgensia anastatica (Ed.)
  • 1974 - Luxembourg / Hoffmann, Fernand location
  • 1975 - Thomas Mann as a philosopher of illness: attempt to systematically present his philosophy of values ​​of the bio-negative
  • 1976 - Dialogue in dialect
  • 1978 - The new German dialect poetry: tendencies and authors illustrated using the example of poetry; with Joseph Berlinger .
  • 1979 - Dialectology Today / Hoffmann, Fernand
  • 1979 - Languages ​​in Luxembourg: linguistic and literary-historical description of a triglossia situation
  • 1981 - Zwischenland: dialectological, dialect-philological and dialect-literary boundaries
  • 1982 - Return to the realm of words: an experiment on the Swiss writer Gerhard Meier
  • 1986 - Thomas Mann from day to day: the great humanist very intimate and humanly all too human: on the 30th anniversary of Thomas Mann's death
  • 1987 - Aspects of the Lëtzebuergeschen / ed. by Jean-Pierre Goudaillier et al.
  • 1988 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Thomas Mann. Reception, influences and parallels.
  • 1989 - Elsassischi grammar or An attempt to sound out the language: poems in the Alsatian dialect by André Weckmann; therein remarks by Fernand Hoffmann
  • 1991 - Dicks, or Descent and Ascent of Edmond de la Fontaine. Life and work of a national poet. (1991)
  • 1992 - Thomas Mann and his world
  • 1993 - One country, three languages: on the triglossia situation in Luxembourg
  • 1993 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1991): doubtful, desperate seeker of God full of paradoxical hope
  • 1993 - Thomas and Klaus Mann in their relationship with France
  • 1994 - Building bridges ... "far out on your own two feet": Festschrift for Fernand Hoffmann

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Fernand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg educator, writer and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dudelange , Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 2000
Place of death Hollerich