Hans Geulen
Hans Geulen (born March 23, 1932 in Aachen ; † September 24, 2017 in Bonn ) was a German German studies scholar .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1955, Geulen studied German, history, philosophy and geography at the universities of Marburg , Innsbruck and Bonn . With a dissertation on "Homo Faber" by Max Frisch as an example of modern storytelling, he received his doctorate in Bonn in 1962. In 1963 Geulen became a scientific assistant to Günter Weydt in Münster, after a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation , he was able to qualify for his habilitation in 1971 with a comprehensive presentation on the “narrative art of the early modern era”. After substituting professorships at the Universities of Göttingen , Saarbrücken and Stuttgart , Geulen became Scientific Adviser and Professor for Modern German Literature at the German Institute of the University of Münster , which he held until his retirement in 1997.
The children of Hans Geulen are the literary scholar Eva Geulen and the historian Christian Geulen .
plant
The research and teaching activities of Geulen encompassed all modern literature from the 16th century to the present day. His publications dealt with the literature of the Baroque era, the novel of romance , Jean Paul and over again with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . In 2005 he published an autobiographical story entitled "Early End Times".
Fonts (selection)
- Max Frisch's novel 'Homo faber'. Studies and Interpretations . Diss. Bonn 1962.
- Max Frisch's novel 'Homo faber'. Studies and Interpretations . Berlin 1965 (Sources and research on the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic peoples, 17)
- Early modern storytelling. On the history of epic modes of presentation and forms in the novel of the Renaissance and Baroque. Tübingen 1975. Zugl. Habil. Münster 1971. ISBN 3-87674-019-3
- Steadfast spectators of aesthetic suffering. Interpretations and readings on Jean Paul's Hesperus. Edited by Hans Geulen a. a. in collaboration with Ursula Behrendt u. a. Münster 1989. (Münster contributions to German and Nordic philology, 4) ISBN 3-926608-21-8
- Early end times . Würzburg 2005. ISBN 3-8260-3048-6
literature
- Critica poeticae. Readings on German literature. Hans Geulen on his 60th birthday. Edited by Andreas Gößling. Würzburg 1992. ISBN 3-88479-738-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Geulen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Hans Geulen in the German Digital Library
- Obituary and obituary from the University of Münster
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geulen, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 2017 |
| Place of death | Bonn |