Günther Schütz (Romanist)

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Günther Schütz (born April 15, 1926 in Mainz ; † June 3, 2020 in Aachen ) was a German Romance studies , Hispanic and German studies.

life and work

Mainz and Caen

Schütz studied Romance philology and philosophy in Mainz from 1946 , was assistant d´allemand at the Lycée Malherbe in Caen from 1952 to 1954 and received his doctorate in 1958 under Edmund Schramm on Barbey d'Aurevilly as a critic (Mainz 1959, revised version ud T. Kreuz and Sword, JA Barbey d'Aurevilly as a critic , Erlangen 2007; see also in: Die Neueren Sprachen 1964, pp. 164–180).

Cuba and USA

At the beginning of January 1959, Schütz went to Cuba (where the revolution had just been successful) and taught as a professor for six semesters German, Romance philology, and French language and literature at the Universidad Central de Las Villas in Santa Clara . Since mid-1960 he was increasingly politically harassed as a West German by some Communists incited by GDR representatives, arrested and interned on April 15, 1961 on the occasion of the Bay of Pigs invasion. He left Cuba after his release in May. From October 1961 to July 1963 he was visiting professor of German at Rice University , Houston, Texas.

Colombia

In December 1963 he went to Colombia and taught at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá as profesor asistente, from 1964 as profesor asociado 11 semesters of German language and literature as well as Romance philology. In addition, he taught German for four years at the Instituto Cultural Colombo-Alemán , funded by the Goethe-Institut , of which he was a member of the Junta directiva and which he was provisional director from October 1966 to June 1967. He graduated from the Seminario Andrés Bello of the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in 1964 with a diploma in Spanish American literature and was co-founder and first president of the Asociación de Exalumnos . At the invitation of Jose Manuel Rivas Sacconi, Permanent Secretary of the Language Academy (1917-1991) and until 1982 head of the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, he held from 1964 to 1972 there as from the exchange of German scientists abroad supported Profesor titular 16 semester lectures and Seminars on Romance Philology, as well as 2 semesters of Latin for linguists and 4 semesters of German intensive courses for students and professors.

Erlangen and Aachen

In September 1972 he returned to Germany and worked from 1973 until his retirement in 1988 as head of the department for Iberian and Eastern Romance languages ​​at the language center of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1992 he was appointed Miembro honorario of the Instituto Caro y Cuervo . Schütz lived in Aachen since 2009.

Günther Schütz was the brother of Armin Schütz .

Other works

main emphasis

Schütz has published extensive research results on the Colombian philologists Rufino José Cuervo (1844–1911) and Ezequiel Uricoechea (1834–1880), namely on their relationships with colleagues in Europe and America. His writings are a treasure trove of information on linguists and Romance scholars in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

About Rufino José Cuervo

  • Rufino José Cuervo editor of “Cinco novelas ejemplares”, in: Thesaurus , 27, 1972, pp. 474–503; also in: Thesaurus. Muestra antológica 1949-1985, Vol. II, 1993, pp. 282-311
  • Epistolario de Rufino José Cuervo con filólogos de Alemania, Austria y Suiza y noticias de las demás relaciones de Cuervo con estos países y sus representantes , 2 vols., Bogotá 1976 (Archivo Epistolar Colombiano VIII and IX)
  • Sobre la interrupción del "Diccionario de construcción y régimen", in: Homenaje a Fernando Antonio Martínez , Bogotá 1979, pp. 553-622
  • El filólogo danés Madvig y los colombianos Caro y Cuervo, in: Thesaurus 42, 1987, pp. 1–22
  • Cuervo's Dictionary as an Outstanding Work in Hispanic Lexicography, in: Dictionaries. An international handbook on lexicography , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand, Ladislav Zgusta, second volume, Berlin, New York 1990, article 183, pp. 1767–1769
  • La gira europea de los hermanos Cuervo 1878–79, in: Thesaurus 47, 1992, pp. 53–164 (published 1996)
  • Cuervo, Uricoechea y Bastian, in: Thesaurus 49, 1994, pp. 323–358 (published 1997)
  • Cuervo discípulo, in: Thesaurus 51, 1996, pp. 549-580 (published 1998)
  • Cuervo y Dozy in: Ex nobili philologorum officio. Festschrift for Heinrich Bihler on his 80th birthday , ed. by Dietrich Briesemeister and Axel Schönberger, Berlin 1998, pp. 471-500; also in: Thesaurus 53, 1998, pp. 489-526
  • En torno a una edición francesa de Teresa de Ávila. Cuervo, Morel-Fatio, el Hno Idelphus, Pólit y las carmelitas de París , Erlangen 2004
  • Temas colombianos , Erlangen 2005 (including: Cuervo maestro, p. 11–48; Cuervo y los Países Bajos, p. 49–57; Rufino José Cuervo amo y servidor de libros, p. 89–232; Dedicatorias del Fondo Cuervo, Pp. 233–290)
  • Relaciones e intercambio epistolar de Rufino José Cuervo con británicos y norteamericanos , manuscript (480 pages), Erlangen 2008

Via Ezequiel Uricoechea

  • Uricoechea en Gotinga , Bogotá 1990, also in: Thesaurus 45, 1990, pp. 79–148
  • Los estudios de Uricoechea en Bruselas, in: Thesaurus 48, 1993, pp. 614–640 (published 1997)
  • Ezequiel Uricoechea y sus socios , Bogotá 1998 (Instituto Caro y Cuervo. Series Minor 38)
  • Aspectos biográficos de Ezequiel Uricoechea con sus cartas a Venancio González Manrique y las de éste y del general Pedro de Alcántara Herrán a Antonio Manrique y Caicedo , Erlangen 2004
  • Ezequiel Uricoechea en academias y congresos , Erlangen 2005
  • Ezequiel Uricoechea como lingüista y antropólogo americanista , Erlangen 2005
  • Ensayos biográficos y bibliográficos sobre Ezequiel Uricoechea , Erlangen 2005 (therein: Tentativa de una bibliografía comentada de Uricoechea, pp. 105–202)

More work

  • Tiempo y temporalidad en "La Hojarasca" de Gabriel García Márquez (lecture at Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1964), in: Iberoromania , 2, 1970, pp. 314-325
  • Romances, Décimas and the Cuban folk poetry , in: Ibero America: Historia-Sociedad-Literatura (Homenaje a Gustav Siebenmann), ed. by JM López de Abiada and Titus Heydenreich (Latin America Studies 13), Munich 1983, Vol. II, pp. 831-848
  • German in Colombia. Colloquial borrowings from Spanish , in: Colloquial language in the Romania (Festschrift for Heinz Kröll), ed. by Günter Holtus and Edgar Radtke, Tübingen 1984, pp. 367–381

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personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies, Hispanic and German studies
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 2020
Place of death Aachen