Fritz Schalk

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Fritz Schalk (born January 17, 1902 in Vienna , † September 20, 1980 in Cologne ) was a German Romance studies and university professor of Austrian origin.

life and work

Schalk studied at the University of Vienna (also in Leipzig, Marburg and Freiburg i. Br.) With Karl Bühler , Nikolai Sergejewitsch Trubetzkoy and Elise Richter and received his doctorate there in 1927 with Walther Küchler with a thesis on Pascal's style. As an assistant to Küchler, he completed his habilitation in 1932 at the University of Hamburg , was then appointed as an associate professor at the University of Rostock, but transferred to the University of Cologne in 1936 , where he was appointed successor to the dismissed Jewish institute director Leo Spitzer in 1937 and full professor in 1941 has been. He turned down calls to Innsbruck, Hamburg, Vienna and Munich. In 1970 he retired. In Cologne he was, among other things, the initiator of the Petrarca Institute at the University of Cologne, founded in 1949 by Italy and North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1935 he took over the editing of the journal Romanische Forschungen from his Rostock predecessor Rudolf Zenker - continued after his death by Wido Hempel - and in 1955 he founded his own series Analecta Romanica, in which he published the works of his doctoral and post- doctoral students as well as works by their students.

Schalk was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature , Mainz , and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , Düsseldorf , and a corresponding member of the academies in Berlin and Vienna. As head of the International Office, he made his first exchange agreements with universities in Romansh-speaking countries after the war. In 1973 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1979 he was accepted into the order Pour le Mérite .

Fonts (selection)

  • Introduction to the Encyclopedia of the French Enlightenment , Munich: Hueber 1936
  • (together with Walter F. Otto and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ) Gian Battista Vico: From the essence and path of spiritual education , Bad Godesberg: Küpper 1947; Darmstadt: WBG 1974
  • The ridiculous in the French literature of the Ancien Régime , Cologne: Westdt. Publisher 1954
  • "Somnium" and related words in the Romance languages , Cologne: Westdt. Publisher 1955
  • The audience in Italian humanism (writings and lectures by the Petrarca Institute Cologne 6), Krefeld: Scherpe 1955, Tübingen: Narr [1997]
  • Diderot's Essai on Claudius and Nero , Cologne: Westdt. Publisher 1956
  • Spanish Spiritual World, Baden-Baden: Holle 1957
  • (together with Egon Hartmann , Fritz Rudolf Fries ) Celestina , Bremen: Schünemann 1959
  • The French moralists , Bremen: Schünemann 4th edition 1962
  • French poems from six centuries , Bremen: Schünemann, 2nd edition 1963
  • Studies on the French Enlightenment , Munich: Hueber 1964, 2nd edition Frankfurt: Klostermann 1977
  • Exempla Romance Word History , Frankfurt: Klostermann 1966
  • (together with Wolfgang Iser ) Presented history in 19th century European literature , Frankfurt: Klostermann 1970, ISBN 3465005783
  • "Praejudicium" in Romansh , Frankfurt: Klostermann 1971
  • The French moralists I. La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues, Montesquieu, Chamfort , DTV 1984, ISBN 3423060263
  • The French moralists II. Galiani, Rivarol, Joubert, Jouffroy , DTV 1984, ISBN 3423060271

literature

  • Horst Baader (Hrsg.): Spanish literature in the golden age. Fritz Schalk on his 70th birthday. Frankfurt 1973.
  • Isolde Burr: Martin Heidegger in a "conversation" with a philologist. In: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Edited by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft , Tübingen 1994, pp. 429–452.
  • Isolde Burr: Fritz Schalk. In: Cologne collectors and their book collections in the University and City Library Cologne , ed. by Gernot Gabel and Wolfgang Schmitz, Cologne 2003, pp. 197–209.
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : From the realm of the mental famine , Würzburg 1993, pp. 71-101.
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann: Fritz Schalk and Romance Studies in Cologne from 1945 to 1980 , in: Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft 1945–1965 , ed. by Petra Boden and Rainer Rosenberg, Berlin 1997, pp. 35–60.
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann:  Schalk, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 551 ( digitized version ).
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann: "Devoured by the vortex of events ..." German Romance studies in the "Third Reich". 2nd, revised and updated edition. Frankfurt 2008.
  • Wido Hempel (Hrsg.): French literature in the age of the Enlightenment: memorial writing for Fritz Schalk. Frankfurt 1983, ISBN 3465015312 .
  • Bernhard König : In memoriam Fritz Schalk , in: Trier Contributions 5, 1982, p. 13 f.
  • Erich Loos : Fritz Schalk in memory. In: Iberoromania . Edition 14 (1981), pp. 143-145, doi: 10.1515 / iber.1981.1981.14.143 .
  • Harri Meier , Hans Sckommodau (ed.): Word and text. Festschrift for Fritz Schalk . Frankfurt 1963.
  • Jürgen Storost : 300 years of Romance languages ​​and literatures at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Frankfurt a. M. 2000, Part 1, pp. 532-540.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Loos: Fritz Schalk in memory. In: Iberoromania. Issue 14 (1981), pp. 143-145
  2. ^ Library, book and information sciences: Library of the Petrarca Institute of the University
  3. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 71, April 11, 1973.
  4. ↑ Entry with the Order
personal data
SURNAME Schalk, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1980
Place of death Cologne