Herbert Christ (Romanist)

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Herbert Christ (born September 13, 1929 in Berresheim, today Mayen , † February 26, 2011 in Düsseldorf ) was a German Romance studies and foreign language didactic.

life and work

Christ studied philosophy, history and Romance philology in Bonn and Brussels from 1949 to 1956 and then went to school, which took him to the Essen grammar school in Borbeck and the St. Hildegardis grammar school in Duisburg. There he was also the head of the study seminar. He received his doctorate in Bonn in 1966 under Karl Dietrich Bracher with the thesis The political Protestantism in the Weimar Republic. A study of the formation of political opinion by the Protestant churches in the mirror of literature and the press (Bonn 1967). From 1974 to 1995 he held the chair for didactics of French at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , 1978–1979 and 1988–1989 also dean.

Christ was the founder of the Giessener Contributions to Foreign Language Didactics series , co-editor of the magazines Praxis des Neusprachlichen Studium and Der fremdsprachliche Studium (FU), co-organizer of the spring conferences on research into foreign language teaching , President of the Conseil d'Administration of the Société Internationale pour l'Histoire de l'Enseignement du Français Langue Etrangère ou Seconde (SIHFLES), as well as a member of the executive committee of the graduate program “Didactics of Understanding Another”.

Christian was the commandeur of the Palmes académiques. Together with his wife, he founded the "Herbert and Ingeborg Christ Foundation for Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages" in 1999.

Other works

  • (Translation from French) Jean Piaget, Judgment and Thought Process of the Child, Düsseldorf 1972
  • Foreign language teaching and language policy, Stuttgart 1980
  • (Ed. With Hans-Joachim Rang) Foreign language lessons under state administration 1700 to 1945. A documentation of official guidelines and ordinances, 7 vols., Tübingen 1985
  • (with Klaus Müllner) Guidelines for teaching the newer foreign languages ​​in schools in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945 to 1984. A systematic bibliography, Tübingen 1985
  • (Ed.) Didactics of French Lessons, Darmstadt 1985 (Paths of Research 610)
  • (with Angela Schwarze) Foreign language lessons in business. Inventory and perspectives, Tübingen 1985
  • (Ed.) French lessons with young adults. Contributions to foreign language classes starting at grade 11, Tübingen 1985
  • (Ed.) Romance Studies. Fields of work and professional practice, Tübingen 1986
  • (Ed. With Karl-Richard Bausch and Hans-Jürgen Krumm) Handbook of Foreign Language Lessons, Tübingen / Basel 1989, 1991, 1995, 2003, 2007
  • The foreign language teacher in further education. An empirical study, Tübingen 1990
  • Foreign language teaching for the year 2000. Language policy considerations for teaching and learning foreign languages, Tübingen 1991
  • (Ed. With Gerda Hassler ) Regards sur l'histoire de l'enseignement des langues étrangères. Actes de la Section 8 du Romanistentag de Potsdam du 27 au 30 septembre 1993, Tübingen 1994
  • (Ed. With Ingrid Buchloh, Erwin Klein and Nando Mäsch) Convergences. Foreign language teaching: planning. Practice. Theory. Festschrift for Ingeborg Christ on the occasion of her 60th birthday, Tübingen 1996

literature

  • Foreign language teaching between language policy and practice. Festschrift for Herbert Christ on his 60th birthday, ed. by Eberhard Kleinschmidt, Tübingen 1989
  • Teaching and learning foreign languages ​​between globalization and regionalization. Symposium on the 70th birthday of Herbert Christ, ed. by Lothar Bredella and Franz-Joseph Meißner, Tübingen 2001
  • Linguist's Handbook , ed. by Wilfried Kürschner, Tübingen 1994, sv (with picture)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( Wolfgang Sykorra ): New spirit at the Gymbo with coined. Professor Herbert Christ has died, in: Borbecker Nachrichten / Essen No. 13 of March 31, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Christ, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and foreign language teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Mayen
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2011
Place of death Dusseldorf