Hugo Dyserinck

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Hugo Dyserinck (born August 5, 1927 in Bruges ) is a Belgian comparatist .

After studying literature at the Universities of Gent and Marburg , Dyserinck received his doctorate in 1952. He was then a lecturer at the University of Erlangen , where he received his habilitation in 1962 in general and comparative literature. From 1962 to 1967 he was a lecturer at the University of Groningen , since 1967 professor and head of the teaching and research area comparative literature at the Philosophical Faculty of the RWTH Aachen . From 1983 to 1992 Dyserinck was also a professor at the Center Universitaire de Luxembourg , from 1990 doctorate at the University of Brussels (VUB).

He has been retired since 1992.

effect

Dyserinck has rendered outstanding services to imagology , today also known as historical hermeneutics , in comparative literary studies, in particular to the topic of national image formation or the image of the other country , which is now outsourced to the research areas of European studies and popular psychology . He is also the editor of the Aachen contributions to comparative literature , co-editor of the Amsterdam publications on language and literature, and co-editor of the Studia Imagologica .

Dyserinck is a member of the European-oriented "think tank" Libérales .

Several specialist publications refer to Dyserinck's never published anthology Imagologie. Collected essays on research into ethnic stereotype formation (supposedly Bouvier, Bonn 1993), which underlines Dyserinck's importance in this field of research.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the problem of "images" and "mirages" and their investigation in the context of comparative literature . 1966.
  • Count Hermann Keyserling and France. A chapter in German-French intellectual relations in the 20th century . Bouvier, Bonn 1970.
  • (with Manfred S. Fischer) International bibliography on the history and theory of comparative literature . Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1985.
  • Comparative studies. An introduction . 3rd edition, Bonn 1991.
  • Comparative literature and European studies. Perspectives of comparative literary and cultural studies . Bouvier, Bonn 1992.

literature

  • Mehnert, Elke (ed.): Russian views - views of Russia. Festschrift for Hugo Dyserinck . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-57317-4 .
  • Leersen, Joep; Syndram, Karl Ulrich (Ed.): Europa provincia mundi. Essays in comparative literature and European studies offered to Hugo Dyserinck on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday . Rodopi, Amsterdam a. a. 1992, ISBN 90-5183-381-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum vitae from a lecture given by the Academy of Diplomacy in Africa
  2. ↑ Portrait on Libérales.be (Flemish) ( Memento of the original of February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.liberales.be
  3. ↑ Christoph Grube: Wrongly quoted. The bluff with the footnote phantom . In: sueddeutsche.de , November 24, 2011, accessed on September 24, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Dyserinck, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian comparator
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruges