Hans Juretschke

Hans Juretschke (born September 11, 1909 in Iburg ; † June 16, 2004 in Madrid ) was a German Romance studies , Hispanic , German studies and historian who worked in Spain.

life and work

Juretschke studied from 1929 in Heidelberg, Dijon, Bonn, Madrid and Oxford. After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he became a member of the SA . He received his doctorate in 1937 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn under Ernst Robert Curtius with the thesis The image of France of modern Spain (Spanish: España ante Francia , Madrid 1940, with a preface by Antonio Tovar ) and went in the autumn of 1939 to 1941 as a lecturer for German to Madrid. From 1942 to 1945 he was a research assistant in the cultural department of the embassy of the Third Reich and, together with Theodor Heinermann, edited the journal Boletín bibliográfico .

From 1941 Juretschke had a teaching position for German literary history at the University of Complutense. From 1963 until his retirement in 1979 he was associate professor there for this subject, as well as director of the Instituto Germano-Español de Investigación of the Görres Society (as whose secretary he had been since 1958).

Juretschke had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Arminia Heidelberg since 1929 .

Other works

• Vida, obra y pensamiento de Alberto Lista , Madrid 1951 (717 pages)
• Origen doctrinal y génesis del romanticismo español , Madrid 1954
• (Ed.) Menéndez Pelayo y el romanticismo , Madrid 1956
• Bibliografía hispanística en lengua alemana , Madrid 1957
• Los afrancesados ​​en la Guerra de la Independencia , Madrid 1962, 1987
• (Ed.) Reports of the diplomatic representatives of the Viennese court from Spain , 20 vols., Madrid 1970-1999 (German-Spanish research institute of the Görres Society)
  • in the reign of Charles III. (1759 - 1788) , 14 vols., 1970-1988
  • during the reign of Charles IV (1789-1808) , 6 vols., 1990-1999
• Federico Schlegel. Una interpretación a la luz de la edición critica de sus obras con especial consideración de sus relaciónes hispánicas, in: Filologia moderna 48, 1973, pp. 191-304
• (Ed.) Friedrich Schlegel , Obras selectas , 2 vols., Madrid 1983 (translation by Miguel Ángel Vega Cernuda)
• (Ed.) On the Germans' image of Spain during the Enlightenment. A historical overview , Münster 1997 (Congress Madrid 1991)
• España y Europe. Estudios de crítica cultural. Obras completas de Hans Juretschke , ed. by Miguel Ángel Vega Cernuda, 3 vols., Madrid 2001

literature

• Manuel Jorba, Record de Hans Juretschke (1909-2004) i dels seus estudis catalans, in: Anuari Verdaguer 15, 2007, pp. 529-537
• Frank-Rutger Hausmann, "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich” , 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 511, 515, 524
• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X , p. 454 f.

Web links

• http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/06/22/obituarios/1087901671.html (obituary, Spanish)