Gert Huebner

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Gert Hübner (born December 17, 1962 in Bayreuth ; † June 13, 2016 in Binningen ) was a German specialist in German studies and associate professor for German mediaeval studies in a European context at the University of Basel .

Life

Hübner graduated from high school in Bayreuth in 1982 . He then studied German , history , philosophy and general rhetoric at the Universities of Bamberg and Tübingen . In 1990 he passed the Magister Artium at the University of Bamberg, where he also passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in 1991. From 1991 he was a research assistant and from 1996 to 2004 research assistant at the chair for German Philology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age at the University of Bamberg. In 1996 he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen and his habilitation from the University of Bamberg in 2002 .

In 2004 Gert Huebner became a university lecturer and in 2008 an extraordinary professor for older German literature at the University of Leipzig , where he a. a. led the implementation of the Bologna reform . In 2009, the University of Basel appointed him extraordinary professor for German Medieval Studies in a European context.

Research priorities

Hübner's historical research focus was on poetry and epics from the 12th to 16th centuries, in particular minstrels , song poems , late medieval-early modern love songs, courtly novels and late medieval-early modern fiction literature. His methodological focus was on historical poetology, rhetoric and literature, narratology and Romance-German and Latin-German literary relations.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Women's award. Studies on the function of laudative speech in the Middle High German Minnekanzone (= Saecula spiritalia. Vol. 34–35). 2 volumes. Baden-Baden 1996 (dissertation; review ).
  • Flowers of praise. Studies on the genesis and function of the "flowered speech" (= Bibliotheca Germanica. Vol. 41). Francke, Tübingen / Basel 2000 ( review ; review ).
  • Narrative form in the courtly novel. Studies on focussing in "Eneas", "Iwein" and "Tristan". (= Bibliotheca Germanica. Vol. 44). Francke, Tübingen / Basel 2003 (habilitation thesis).
  • Older German literature. An introduction (= UTB . Vol. 2766). Francke, Tübingen / Basel 2006; 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition 2015.
  • Minnesang in the 13th century. An introduction (= fool study books ). Narr, Tübingen 2008.

Editing

  • German love poetry in the 15th and 16th centuries. 18th Medieval Colloquium of the Center for Medieval Studies at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (= Cloe. Vol. 37). Rodopi, Amsterdam / New York 2005.
  • with Petra Schöner: Artium conjunctio. Cultural studies and early modern research. Articles for Dieter Wuttke (= Saecvla Spiritalia. Vol. 48). Koerner, Baden-Baden 2013.
  • with Dorothea Klein: Sangspruchdichtung around 1300. Files of the conference in Basel from 7th to 9th November 2013 (= Spolia Berolinensia. Vol. 33). Weidmann, Hildesheim 2015.
  • with Stephan Füssel , Joachim Knape : Artibus. Cultural studies and German philology of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Festschrift Dieter Wuttke . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gert Huebner. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online . De Gruyter.
  2. ^ Obituary notice , Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 30, 2016, SZ-Gedenken, accessed on September 20, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2016
Place of death Binningen