Heinrich Bihler
Heinrich Bihler (born October 14, 1918 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † January 17, 2017 ibid) was a German Romance scholar , Hispanic , Catalan and Medievalist .
life and work
Bihler studied in Munich with Gerhard Rohlfs and Hans Rheinfelder and was born in 1950 with the work The position of the Catalan to the Provencal and Castilian. Doctorate in statistical analysis of Catalan texts from the Middle Ages and modern times (Frankfurt am Main 2001). He completed his habilitation in 1956 with the writing Spanish Versdichtung des Mittelalter in the light of the Spanish criticism of the Enlightenment and pre-Romanticism (Münster 1957). From 1961 to 1972 he was a full professor of Romance philology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (despite the loss of his eyesight after a failed eye operation) , then withdrew from active service due to constant hostility from the ranks of the 68 students, but stayed until Present at the university in 1986 by regularly giving lectures and taking exams.
Bihler was a co-founder and co-editor of the magazine Iberoromania . He was a Hispanic from the very beginning and did a great job in particular in the field of Catalan literature and linguistics. A thousand-page commemorative publication, which colleagues from all over the world dedicated to him on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, testifies to the high level of international appreciation that Romance, Hispanic and Catalan studies showed him. In 1998 he was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the President of Catalonia . In 2015 he was made an honorary member of the German Hispanic Association. Heinrich Bihler was also Honorary President of the German Catalan Association for life.
Other works
- French style apprenticeship , Wiesbaden 1955
- French studies , Frankfurt am Main 1962
- (Ed. With Alfred Noyer-Weidner ) Medium aevum Romanicum. Festschrift for Hans Rheinfelder , Munich 1963
- (Ed.) Der Rosenroman , Tübingen 1966
literature
- Christine Bierbach, On the 70th birthday of Professor Dr. Heinrich Bihler, in: Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 2, 1989, pp. 231–232
- Ex nobili philologorum officio. Festschrift for Heinrich Bihler on his 80th birthday , ed. by Dietrich Briesemeister and Axel Schönberger, Berlin 1998
- Winfried Floeck, Stages of a Romanist Life, in: Romance Studies as Passion. Great moments in recent specialist history II , ed. by Klaus-Dieter Ertler, Münster 2011, pp. 69–86 (here: 74–75)
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Bihler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Heinrich Bihler in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Speeches by Heinrich Bihler in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christof Schöch: Obituary Prof. Dr. Heinz Bihler. In: romanistik.de. Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bihler, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist, Hispanic and Medievalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 2017 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |