Gustav Ineichen

Gustav Ineichen (born June 6, 1929 in the canton of Lucerne ; † July 10, 2005 in Göttingen ) was a Swiss Romance studies and linguist .

life and work

Ineichen studied at the University of Friborg with Gianfranco Contini and Arrigo Castellani and received his doctorate in 1957 with The Paduan dialect at the end of the 14th century on the basis of Erbario Carrarese (in: Zeitschrift für Romansische Philologie . Vol. 73, No. 1/2, 1957, pp. 38-123, doi : 10.1515 / zrph.1957.73.1-2.38 ). He completed his habilitation in 1963 at the University of Zurich with a thesis that he had written during a research stay with Gianfranco Folena at the University of Padua : El libro Agregà de Serapiom. Volgarizzamento di frater Jacobus Philippus de Padua. Edito per la prima volta. ((= Civiltà veneziana. Fonti e testi. Ser. 3: Lettere, musica e teatro. 1, ZDB -ID 419603-x ). Istituto per la collaborazione culturale, Venice and Rome 1962 and 1966).

In 1967 he was appointed to the chair for Romance Linguistics at the University of Göttingen , where he worked until his retirement in 1995 (successor: Günter Holtus ). From 1970 to 1975 he was also director of the Swiss Institute in Rome.

For many years Ineichen was editor of the Romance Bibliography (1963–1996) and the Romance workbooks (1973 ff.). He was a member of the Accademia Galileiana in Padua and the New York Academy of Sciences .

More fonts

• Translation from the Old French and introduction: Guillaume de Lorris: Der Rosenroman (= Philological studies and sources. Issue 1, ISSN  0554-0674 ). With a foreword by Wolfgang Stammler. Schmidt, Berlin 1956.
• Remarks on the pharmacognostic studies in the late Middle Ages in the area of ​​Venice. In: Journal for Romance Philology. Volume 75, 1959, pp. 439-466.
• Repetition of the Old French Phonology. Schmidt, Berlin 1968 (2nd edition as: Kleine Altfranzösische Grammar. Laut- und Formenlehre. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Ibid 1985, ISBN 3-503-02227-9 ).
• Bibliographical introduction to French linguistics (= basics of Romance studies. 4). Schmidt, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-503-00753-9 .
• General language typology. Approaches and methods (= income from research. 118). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1979, ISBN 3-534-07409-2 (2nd, updated and expanded edition, ibid 1991).
• Arabic-oriental language contacts in Romania. A contribution to the cultural history of the Middle Ages (= Romanistic workbooks. 41). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-484-54041-9 .
• Typology and language comparison in Romansh. Articles 1973–1998 (= Studia Romanica. Vol. 97). Edited by Volker Noll. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0891-X .
• Languages, countries and travel. Memories of a professor (= series of memoirs. Vol. 29). Kovač, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-8300-0268-8 .

literature

• Ursula Klenk, Karl-Hermann Körner, Wolf Thümmel (eds.) Variatio linguarum. Contributions to language comparison and language development. Festschrift for Gustav Ineichen's 60th birthday. Steiner-Verlag-Wiesbaden-GmbH, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-05221-6 .
• Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Linguist Handbook. Biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present. Volume 1: A-L. Narr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 , sv
• Volker Noll, Sylvia Thiele (eds.): Language contacts in the Romania. On the 75th birthday of Gustav Ineichen. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-50715-2 .
• Obituaries by Volker Noll in: Journal for Romance Philology. Vol. 122, No. 4, 2006, pp. 838-840, doi : 10.1515 / ZRPH.2006.838 ; and Vox Romanica. Vol. 65, 2006, pp. 270-272, ( digitized version ).
• Volker Noll: Ineichen, Gustav. In: Harro Stammerjohann (Ed.): Lexicon grammaticorum. A bio-bibliographical companion to the history of linguistics. Volume 1: A-K. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-73068-7 , sv

Web links

• Literature by and about Gustav Ineichen in the catalog of the German National Library