Jürgen Grimm

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Jürgen Grimm (born December 17, 1934 in Düsseldorf , † January 20, 2009 in Münster ) was a German Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Grimm received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1964 under Hugo Friedrich on the literary representation of the plague in antiquity and in Romania (Munich 1965). He was a lecturer in France and completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 1971 with La Fontaine's fables as a satirical work of art ( La Fontaine's fables , Darmstadt 1976). From 1974 to 2000 he was a full professor of Romance philology in Münster. From 1993 to 1997 Grimm was chairman of the German Romanists Association . His estate is in the Romanist archive in Augsburg.

Other works

  • The unity of Ariost's satire , Frankfurt 1969
  • (together with Frank-Rutger Hausmann and Christoph Miething) Introduction to French Literary Studies , Stuttgart 1976, 2nd edition 1984, 3rd edition 1987, 4th edition 1997
  • Roger Vitrac. A forerunner of the Theater of the Absurd , Munich 1977
  • The avant-garde theater of France 1895-1930 , Munich 1982
  • Molière , Stuttgart 1984, 2nd edition 2002 (French: Paris / Seattle / Tübingen 1993)
  • Jean de la Fontaine, Fables , selected, translated and commented, Stuttgart 1987, 2009
  • (Ed.) French literature history , Stuttgart 1989, 2nd edition 1991, 3rd edition 1994, 4th edition 1999
  • Guillaume Apollinaire , Munich 1993
  • French Classic , Stuttgart / Weimar 2005

literature

  • "Diversité, c'est ma devise": Studies of 17th century French literature. Festschrift for Jürgen Grimm on his 60th birthday , ed. by Frank-Rutger Hausmann, Christoph Miething and Margarete Zimmermann , Paris / Seattle 1994
  • Theater Rehearsals: Romance Studies in Drama and Theater. Jürgen Grimm on his 65th birthday , ed. by Andrea Grewe and Margarete Zimmermann, Münster 2001
  • Wolfgang Asholt in: lendemains 134/135, 2009, pp. 286–288
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann in: Romanische Forschungen 121, 2009, pp. 200–202

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personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 2009
Place of death Muenster