Jens Lüdtke (Romanist)

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Jens Lüdtke (born October 8, 1941 in Stettin ; † January 4, 2019 ) was a German Romance studies and linguist .

life and work

Lüdtke attended the Hohenbaden Baden-Baden high school (Abitur 1962), did military service and studied Romance and English in Tübingen and Saarbrücken from 1964 to 1970 . From 1972 to 1983 (with interruptions) he was assistant to Eugenio Coseriu and from 1972 to 1975 lecturer at the University of Florence . In 1975 he received his doctorate in Tübingen with the dissertation Predicative Nominalizations with Suffixes in French, Catalan and Spanish (Niemeyer, Tübingen 1978). He completed his habilitation there in 1983 with the script Language and Interpretation. Syntax and semantics of reflexive structures in French (Narr, Tübingen 1984). From 1983 he was Professor of Romance Philology at the Universities of Bonn (until 1987), FU Berlin (until 1994, 1992–1993 also Dean) and Heidelberg (until his retirement in 2007). He turned down the call to Saarbrücken that he had received in 1990. From 2000 to 2002 Lüdtke was president of the Romanist umbrella organization (Balkan Romanist Association, Hispanic Association, Catalan Association, Lusitanist Association).

Works (selection)

  • The Romance languages ​​in Mithridates of Adelung and Father. Study and text . Tuebingen 1978.
  • Catalan. An introductory language description . Munich 1984.
  • Bibliography from the Institute for Romance Philology at the Free University of Berlin . Berlin 1991.
  • Romance word formation. Diachronic - synchronous - content . Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2005, 2007.
    • (Spanish) La formación de palabras en las lenguas románicas. Su semántica en diacronía y sincronía. El Colegio de México, Mexico City 2011.
  • Los orígenes de la lengua española en America. Los primeros cambios en las Islas Canarias, Las Antillas y Castilla del Oro . Vervuert, Madrid / Frankfurt am Main 2014.
  • (Associate Editor) Manual of Catalan Linguistics (De Gruyter, announced)
  • Romance Linguistics. Speaking in general - individual language - discourse. A manual (De Gruyter, announced)

literature

  • History of language as history of varieties. Contributions to the diachronic variety linguistics of Spanish and other Romance languages, on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Jens Lüdtke = Historia de las variedades lingüísticas . Edited by Andreas Wesch. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2002.
  • Klaus-Dieter Ertler (Ed.): Romance Studies as Passion II . LIT, Vienna / Berlin 2011, pp. 219–256.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://saarbruecker-zeitung.trauer.de/trauerbeispiel/jens-luedtke
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Jens Lüdtke †. Romance seminar, Heidelberg University, accessed on January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lüdtke, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2019