Hans Rheinfelder

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Hans Rheinfelder (born February 15, 1898 in Regensburg , † October 31, 1971 in Munich ) was a German Romance studies , linguist and literary scholar .

life and work

Rheinfelder grew up in Landau in the Palatinate . After his military service in northern France, he studied Romance and English from 1919 in Würzburg and Munich with Karl Vossler , Leo Jordan, Eugen Lerch and Josef Schick . From 1921 to 1929 he was a lecturer at the University of Rome . In 1926 he did his doctorate in Würzburg under Arthur Franz and Adalbert Hämel on The word "Persona": History of its meanings with special consideration of the French and Italian Middle Ages (Halle 1928). In 1929 he completed his habilitation in Freiburg with Hanns Heiss with the thesis Cult and profane language in the Romance countries: Linguistic studies on the vocabulary of French and Italian (Geneva / Florence 1933).

In 1931 he was appointed associate professor in Munich and was director of the Maximilianeum from 1932 to 1935 . The National Socialists deposed him and blocked his appointment as full professor, which could only take place in 1946. He declined calls to Greifswald (1932), Münster (1947), Mainz (1953) and Frankfurt am Main (1955).

From 1947 to 1953 he devoted himself to the development of Bavarian universities as a university advisor to the Ministry of Culture; until 1958 he was advisor to the minister of education. Rheinfelder was President of the German Dante Society (from 1949) and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (from 1956). In 1955 he founded the German Romanists Association . In 1956 he co-founded the papers for German and international politics . In 1963 he retired. In 1969 he founded the magazine Iberoromania .

As one of the last Romance scholars, he combined the entire subject, literature and linguistics in several Romance languages. His Old French Grammar Part 1: Phonology (1937, 5th edition 1987) was one of the most successful textbooks on Romance studies. Students and friends dedicated the commemorative publication Medium aevum romanicum , ed. by Heinrich Bihler and Alfred Noyer-Weidner , Munich 1963. In 1959 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit . In the same year he was elected Vice President of the Academy of German-Italian Studies .

He was a member of the Catholic student associations KStV Ottonia Munich and KStV Walhalla Würzburg and honorary philistine of the KStV Südmark Munich.

He died on October 31, 1971 in Munich and was buried in the Pasing cemetery.

Fonts

  • The word "persona". History of its meanings with special consideration of the French and Italian Middle Ages (= supplements to the magazine for Romance philology. 77, ISSN  0344-6727 ). Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1928.
  • Old French grammar. 2 volumes.
    • Volume 1: Phonology. Hueber, Munich 1937, (several editions);
    • Volume 2: Form theory. Hueber, Munich 1967, (several editions).
  • Gabriela Mistral. Motifs of her poetry (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports. 1955, Issue 8, ISSN  0344-6727 ). Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften et al., Munich 1955, ( digital version (PDF; 3.67 MB) ).
  • Philological treasuries. Collected Essays. Hueber, Munich 1968.
  • Dante studies. Edited by Marcella Roddewig . Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1975, ISBN 3-412-10774-3 .

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. Grave of Hans Rheinfelder at the Pasing cemetery (Grabfeld 43, location , picture )

literature

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