Hans Helmut Christmann

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Hans Helmut Christmann (born August 28, 1929 in Mainz ; † July 21, 1995 in Tübingen ) was a German Romance scholar , linguist , medievalist and historian of science .

Life

Christmann studied Romance and English philology and comparative linguistics from 1948 to 1955 at the newly founded University of Mainz and in Frankfurt (with Erhard Lommatzsch ). He received his doctorate in Mainz in the winter semester of 1954/55 with a work suggested by Eugen Lerch , which Edmund Schramm took over after his death (1952) . From 1956 to 1961 he was assistant to W. Theodor Elwert in Mainz , then a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation. After studying in Paris, Florence, Valladolid and Milan, he completed his habilitation in 1965 with "Studies on the subjunctive in Italian".

From 1965 to 1974, Christmann was Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Saarbrücken, succeeding Helmut Stimm . Between 1974 and 1994 he taught as the successor to Mario Wandruszka at the University of Tübingen . Christmann was the habilitation father of Richard Baum , Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft .

He was married to the English specialist Ursula Christmann.

Christmann had been a corresponding member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences since 1978 . He was an Officier des Palmes académiques .

Fonts (selection)

  • Latin “calere” in the Romance languages , Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1958
  • Contributions to the history of the thesis of the world view of language , Mainz Academy of Sciences, Mainz 1967 (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. 1966, No. 7)
  • Idealistic Philology and Modern Linguistics , Fink Verlag, Munich 1974
  • 19th Century Linguistics , Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1977
  • Woman and “Jew” at the university: The Romance philologist Elise Richter (Vienna 1865 - Theresienstadt 1943) , Mainz Academy of Sciences, Mainz 1980
  • Romance Studies and English Studies at the German University in the 19th Century , Mainz Academy of Sciences, Mainz 1985
  • Ernst Robert Curtius and the German Romanists , Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1987
  • (together with Frank-Rutger Hausmann ) German and Austrian Romanists as persecuted by National Socialism , Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen 1989
  • Tobler-Lommatzsch, Old French Dictionary: U-venteler, venteler-vïaire, vïaire-vistece, vistece-vonjement , Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995.

literature

  • Christmann on his 50th birthday: Language in teaching and research , ed. by Richard Baum, Franz Josef Hausmann and Irene Monreal-Wickert; Narr, Tübingen 1979
  • For the 65th birthday: Lingua et Traditio. History of Linguistics and Newer Philologies , ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft. Narr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-4137-5 . The list of publications contained therein comprises 171 publications.

Obituaries

  • Fritz Abel: Hans Helmut Christmann (1929–1995) , in: Romanische Forschungen 108 (1996), pp. 194–201.
  • Jörn Albrecht in: Journal for French Language and Literature 106, 1996, pp. 1–5.
  • Franz Josef Hausmann in: Le Français Moderne 64, 1996, pp. 124–125.
  • Franz Lebsanft : Hans Helmut Christmann (1929–1995) , in: Journal for Romance Philology 111, 1995, pp. 792–795.
  • Hans-Jörg Neuschäfer in: Romance Journal for Literary History 20 (1996) pp. 238–239.
  • Max Pfister in: Academy of Science and Literature Mainz. 1995 Yearbook, pp. 116-118.
  • Pierre Swiggers in: Orbis 39, 1996-1997, pp. 401-410.

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personal data
SURNAME Christmann, Hans Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance philologist, linguist, medievalist and historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1995
Place of death Tübingen