Gerhard Schneider (Romanist)

Gerhard Schneider (* 25. November 1938 in Duisburg ) is a retired professor of Romance languages at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Gerhard Schneider was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1971 to 1973 he was a research assistant at the Romance Department at the Free University of Berlin . Since 1973 he has held a professorship at the Institute for Romance Languages ​​and Literatures at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

From 1974, disciplinary proceedings were initiated against Schneider because he had described the death of the worker Günter Routhier in a labor court trial in Duisburg as "police murder" in a press release . In 1976, Gerhard Schneider ran for the Maoist Communist Party of Germany in the 1976 federal election .

Scientifically, Schneider was not very productive. Two of his works, in which he was involved, appeared in party publications of the Maoist KPD.

Publications

• The libertine : on the intellectual and social history of the bourgeoisie in the 16th and 17th centuries , Stuttgart: JB Metzler 1970 (studies on general and comparative literature; 4)
• (As a member of a working group): The political lithography in the struggle for the Paris Commune , Cologne: Gaehme, Henke 1976
• Upper bourgeois enlightenment as class reconciliation , Berlin: Oberbaumverlag 1976 ( Materialistic Science; 3) ISBN 3-87628-054-0

literature

• Documentation of the disciplinary proceedings against Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schneider 1974 to 1978 , Frankfurt am Main: Schubart 1979 (brochure)
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 20th Edition 2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Schneider in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Suspended from duty , in: Kommunistische Volkszeitung (KVZ) No. 43/30. October 1975, p. 10 and other newspapers [not available]