Helmut Anthony Hatzfeld

Helmut Anthony Hatzfeld (born November 4, 1892 in Bad Dürkheim , † May 18, 1979 in Washington, DC ) was a German Romance philologist , literary scholar and linguist with American citizenship. He worked particularly in the field of stylistics .

life and work

After studying in Munich, Grenoble, Berlin and Edinburgh, Hatzfeld received his doctorate in linguistics in 1915 with Karl Vossler in Munich and later qualified in literature with Matthias Friedwagner in Frankfurt . He was appointed to Heidelberg as an associate professor (with the rank of personal ordinariate) , because of his (a quarter) Jewish descent, he was forced out of office by the National Socialists and left Heidelberg in November 1938. He went to Belgium ( Catholic University of Leuven ) USA and taught at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC from 1940 to 1962

Works

About the objectification of subjective terms in Central French: A contribution to the theory of meaning , Diss. Munich 1915
From Freund und Feind , Munich 1917
The magical little tailor and two other fairy tales retold from Italian , Munich 1921
Paul Claudel and Romain Rolland. New French spirituality , Munich 1921
Introduction to the philosophy of language , Munich 1921
Introduction to the interpretation of New French texts . Publishing house of the university bookstore Max Hueber, Munich 1922
Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Munich 1922
François Rabelais , Leipzig 1923
French symbolism , Munich 1923
Guide to the literary masterpieces of the novels , Munich 1923
On the shift in meaning through similarity of form in New French: a semasiological-lexicographical study , Munich 1924
The French Renaissance poetry , Munich 1924
Don Quixote as a work of art , Heidelberg 1927 (Isidre Bonsoms Prize; Spanish Madrid 1949; 1966)
(with Victor Klemperer and Fritz Neubert) The Romance literatures from the Renaissance to the French Revolution , Potsdam 1926
Guide to the doctrine of comparative meaning: a compilation of characteristic semasiological sample material from the most popular languages , Munich 1928
La investigación estilística en las literaturas románicas , Buenos Aires 1932
Religious awakening in spiritual France today , Freiburg 1933
Observaciones sobre pensamiento y lenguaje del superrealismo en Francia , Buenos Aires 1951
Literature through art: a new approach to French literature , New York 1952; Chapel Hill 1969
A critical bibliography of the new stylistics applied to the Romance literatures , Chapel Hill 1953; 1966 (span. 1955)
Estudios literarios sobre mística española , Madrid 1955; 1968
Trends & styles in twentieth century French literature , Washington 1957
Initiation à l'explication de textes français . Max Hueber Verlag, Munich 1957
(with Yves Le Hir) Essai de bibliographie critique de stylistique française et romane , Paris 1961
Estudios sobre el Barroco , Madrid 1964; 3rd edition 1972
Saggi di stilistica romanza , Bari 1967
Don Quixote , Darmstadt 1968
Santa Teresa de Avila , New York 1969
Analisi e interpretazioni stilistiche , Bari 1971
Rococo; eroticism, wit, and elegance in European literature , New York 1972
Estudios de literaturas románicas , Barcelona 1972
Explicación de textos literarios , Sacramento 1973
Romance style research , Darmstadt 1975
Estudios de estilística , Barcelona 1978

literature

Linguistic and literary studies in honor of Helmut Anthony Hatzfeld . Edited by Alessandro S [anti] Crisafulli. [Contains u. a. Pp. 1–21: Crisafulli, Alessandro S .: A Bibliography of the writings of Helmut A. Hatzfeld; Pp. 23-30: Crisafulli: Helmut Hatzfeld] Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1964
Estudios literarios de hispanistas norteamericanos dedicados a Helmut Hatzfeld with motivo de su 80 aniversario , compilados y editados por Josep M. Sola-Solé, Alessandro Crisafulli, Bruno Damiani. Barcelona 1974
Heinrich Bihler, In memoriam Helmut Hatzfeld, in: Iberoromania 11, 1980, pp. 150–153
Lothar Bossle , On the death of Helmut Hatzfeld, in: Voice of the Palatinate . 1979, 3, pp. 13-14
Hans Helmut Christmann , German Romanists as Persecuted by National Socialism - Legacy and Obligation, in: German and Austrian Romanists as Persecuted by National Socialism , ed. by Hans Helmut Christmann and Frank-Rutger Hausmann in conjunction with Manfred Briegel, Tübingen 1989, pp. 249–262
Volker Sellin : Romance Studies, in: The University of Heidelberg under National Socialism , ed. by Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast , Berlin 2006, pp. 435–458
Utz Maas : Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933-1945. Entry on Helmut Hatzfeld (accessed: April 13, 2018)

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personal data
SURNAME	Hatzfeld, Helmut Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American Romance philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 4, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Dürkheim
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1979
Place of death	Washington, DC