Hans Ludwig Scheel

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Hans Ludwig Scheel (born October 27, 1918 in Rostock ; † July 29, 2007 in St. Ingbert ) was a German Romance studies and literary scholar .

life and work

Hans Ludwig Scheel was the son of the medical professor and director of the Orthopedic Hospital in Rostock Paul Friedrich Scheel (1883-1959), and nephew of the artist Margarete Scheel . In 1943 he married Katharina Stimpfl, who came from South Tyrol. With her he had three daughters.

After military service and imprisonment, Scheel studied Romance Philology, Classical Philology and Philosophy at the University of Kiel from 1946 under Hermann Gmelin , August Buck , Erich Burck and Ludwig Landgrebe . In 1950 he received his doctorate with the study The judgments of Sainte-Beuves on the relationship of French literature to antiquity 1500-1800 . After lecturing in Bologna , Scheel completed his habilitation in 1955 at the University of Kiel with a thesis on Leopardi and antiquity (Munich 1959). This was followed by a substitute for a professorship in Kiel in 1958/59, lectureship (after rehabilitation) in Bonn in 1959/1960 and appointment to extraordinary (1960), then full professor (1962) in Kiel. In 1963 he was appointed to the chair for Romance philology and literary studies at the Saarland University, which he held until his retirement in 1985 and where he mainly taught Italian and French literary studies , but also researched and taught linguistics. Particularly noteworthy is his leading work in the special research area 100 "Electronic Language Research", where work was carried out on the development of machine language translation from the pioneering days of computational linguistics until the late 1980s . As a Romance scholar, he was mainly responsible for the French-German language pair. In addition to lexicographical research and development, his scientific spectrum ranged from morphology to syntax and semantics to artificial intelligence .

He turned down calls to Innsbruck 1963, Bonn 1966, Innsbruck 1969 and Munich 1970.

Scheel died in 2007 and is buried in Rostock.

literature

  • Obituary by Reinhard Klesczewski in: Deutsches Dante Jahrbuch. Vol. 83, 2008, ISSN  0070-444X , pp. 7-12 and in: Italian. H. 58, 2007, ISSN  0171-4996 , pp. 168-170.
  • Obituary by Willi Hirdt in: Romanic research . Vol. 120, No. 1, 2008, pp. 63-65, JSTOR 27942726 .
  • Willi Hirdt, Reinhard Klesczewski (eds.): Italia viva. Studies in the language and literature of Italy. Festschrift for Hans Ludwig Scheel (= Tübingen Contributions to Linguistics. 220). Narr, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-87808-220-7 (with list of publications).

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personal data
SURNAME Scheel, Hans Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, Romance studies
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 2007
Place of death St. Ingbert