Horst Baader

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Horst Baader (born May 24, 1930 in Wuppertal - Barmen ; † May 18, 1980 in Cologne ) was a German Romanist .

Life

Grave in the Südfriedhof (Cologne)

Baader was the son of Henriette geb. Angel. He did his doctorate in 1956 with Fritz Schalk in Cologne on Pedro Salinas. Studies on his poetic and critical work (Cologne 1956) and habilitated there in 1962 with Die Lais (Frankfurt 1966). In the same year he became a full professor of Romance philology in Saarbrücken , then in 1966 at the Free University of Berlin and finally in 1970 as the successor to his teacher in Cologne . He was visiting professor in Seattle (University of Washington) and Clermont-Ferrand .

Baader died at the age of 49. His grave is located in Cologne's southern cemetery (hall 33).

Publications (selection)

  • The literary fortunes of the Spanish knight Suero de Quiñones (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born 1959, No. 7).
  • The Spanish novel in the golden age. Frankfurt 1973.
  • as editor: Voltaire. Darmstadt 1980 (= ways of research . Volume 286).

literature

  • Le Sacré: aspects et manifestations: études publiées in memoriam Horst Baader , par Peter-Eckhard Knabe, Jürgen Rolshoven, Margarethe Stracke, Tübingen 1982
  • Estudios de literatura española y francesca: siglos XVI y XVII. Homenaje a Horst Baader , ed. De Frauke Gewecke, Frankfurt / Barcelona 1984
  • Obituary by Hans-Jörg Neuschäfer in: Iberoromania 13, 1981, p. 96

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