Hans-Wilhelm Klein

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Hans-Wilhelm Klein (* 29. October 1911 in Krefeld , † 3. November 1992 in Aachen ) was a German linguist , medievalist , linguists , grammarians and foreign language teachers.

life and work

Klein studied Romance and Latin Studies in Munich, Dijon, Tübingen and Bonn, received his doctorate in 1936 at the University of Tübingen under Gerhard Rohlfs on the popular and proverbial comparisons in Latin and the Romance languages (Würzburg 1937) and was then a grammar school teacher, then from 1951–1963 lecturer , Senior teacher in higher education, later honorary professor at the University of Münster . In 1963 he was appointed to a chair for Romance philology at the University of Gießen , in 1969 at RWTH Aachen , where he retired in 1977 ( Richard Baum was successor ). Klein himself named as his main focus in research and teaching: Vulgar Latin as the basis of the Old Roman language forms, Medieval studies , linguistics and foreign language teaching . Klein was and is particularly well-known as the author of textbooks, dictionaries and grammars of French, namely the Klett grammar "Klein-Strohmeyer" (1958), the fruit of the collaboration with the older Fritz Strohmeyer , and the successor grammar "Klein-Kleineidam" (1983), which he wrote with his student Hartmut Kleineidam . Fritz Abel called both grammars “masterpieces of their genre”.

Two festschrifts were dedicated to Klein: Lebendige Romania , ed. by Albert Barrera-Vidal, Ernstpeter Ruhe and Peter Schunck (Göppingen 1976) and French language teaching and bon usage , ed. by Albert Barrera-Vidal, Hartmut Kleineidam and Manfred Raupach (Munich 1986).

Other works

(the first edition is indicated)

  • 1000 idiomatic French phrases , Berlin 1937
  • English synonyms for students and teachers , Leverkusen 1951–1953
  • (with Walter Gottschalk and Gaston Bentot) German-French dictionary , Leverkusen 1952
  • (Editor) Rudolf Plate, French vocabulary on language and cultural-historical basis. A help book for study and teaching . Revised by Hans-Wilhelm Klein, 2nd edition, Munich 1955
  • Les mots dans la phrase. Petit dictionnaire de style , Dortmund 1956
  • Latin and Volgare in Italy , Munich 1957
  • (with Fritz Strohmeyer) French language teaching , Stuttgart 1958
  • La chanson de Roland , 1963
  • Phonetics and Phonology of Present-Day French 1963
  • The Reichenauer glosses , Munich 1968
  • Difficulties in German-French vocabulary , Stuttgart 1968
  • (with Hartmut Kleineidam) Grammar of Modern French , Stuttgart 1983
  • The Chronicle of Charlemagne and Roland , Munich 1986
  • (with Klaus Herbers ) Libellus Sancti Jacobi: Excerpts from the Jacob's book of the 12th century , Tübingen 1997

literature

  • Lively Romania: Festschrift for Hans-Wilhelm Klein. Edited by A. Barrera-Vidal, E. Ruhe, P. Schunck A. Kümmerle, Göppingen, 1976.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Abel: The representation of the syntax and semantics of the subjonctif in various grammars by Fritz Strohmeyer, Hans-Wilhelm Klein and Hartmut Kleineidam , in: Lingua et Traditio. History of Linguistics and Modern Philologies , ed. by R. Baum u. a., Tübingen 1994, p. 737.
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Hans-Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist, Medievalist, linguist and grammarian
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1992
Place of death Aachen