Jochen Schlobach

Jochen Schlobach (born February 6, 1938 in Liegnitz ; † September 20, 2003 ) was a German Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Schlobach studied Romance languages, German and comparative literature in Hamburg, Paris and Saarbrücken. He received his doctorate in 1964 from the Saarland University on history and fiction in L'Eté 1914 by Roger Martin du Gard (Munich 1965). From 1964 to 1972 he was a research assistant at the chair of Claude Digeon, from 1972 to 1974 assistant professor at the Romance Studies Institute at Saarland University. In 1974 he completed his habilitation on cycle theory and epoch metaphors. Studies on the visual language of historical reflection in France from the Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment (Munich 1980) and in the same year became full professor of modern French literary studies in Saarbrücken (after a call to Mainz was rejected) . Visiting professorships took him to the Sorbonne (1975/76), the University of Nice (1979/80) and the University of Missouri in Columbia (1992). From 1995 to 1999 he was President of the International Society for the Exploration of the Eighteenth Century. He died shortly after his retirement on a research trip.

Other works

(Ed.) Correspondance inédite de Frédéric Melchior Grimm , Munich 1972
(Ed.) (Together with Bernard Bray and Jean Varloot) La Correspondance littéraire de Grimm et de Meister 1754-1813. Colloque de Sarrebruck, February 22-24, 1974 , Paris 1976
(Ed.) Diderot, Œuvres complètes, t. 18, Critiques et mélanges, II , Paris 1984
(Ed.) (Together with André Daspre ) Roger Martin du Gard. Études sur son œuvre. Actes du colloque de Sarrebruck , Paris 1984
(Ed.) (Together with Gerhard Sauder) Enlightenment, France and Germany in the 18th century. Actes du colloque de Sarrebruck , Heidelberg 1985
(Ed.) Correspondances littéraires inédites: études et extraits, suivies de Voltairiana , Genève 1987
(Ed.) (Together with Siegfried Jüttner ) European Enlightenment (s), unity and national diversity. Files from the 1987 annual conference of the Society for Research in the 18th Century , Hamburg 1992
(Ed.) Denis Diderot , Darmstadt 1992
(Ed.) Pierre Rousseau et auteur (s) anonyme (s), Correspondance littéraire de Mannheim 1754 - 1756 , Paris / Genève 1992
(Ed.) (Together with Michel Grunewald) Vermittlungs / Médiations, actes du colloque Metz / Sarrebruck , 2 volumes, Frankfurt / New York 1992
(Ed.) (Together with Maciej Zurowski) Révolution et littérature. La Révolution de 1789 in les littératures allemande, française et polonaise. Actes du colloque franco-polono-allemand d'avril 1987 à Sarrebruck , in: Cahiers de Varsovie 18, 1992
(Ed.) Claude Pougin de Saint-Aubin (et Jean-Louis Aubert), Correspondance littéraire de Karlsruhe: (12 June 1766 - 15 December 1768) , Paris / Genève 1995
Dictionnaire Européen des Lumières , publié sous la direction de Michel Delon; comité scientifique: Michel Blay, Michel Delon, Philippe Junod, Daniel Roche, Jochen Schlobach, Paris 1997
(Ed.) (Together with Michel Delon ) La Recherche dix-huitiémiste. Objets, méthodes et institutions (1945-1995) / Eighteenth-century research. Objects, methods and institutions (1945-1995) , Paris 1998
(Ed.) (Together with Silvia Eichhorn-Jung) Friedrich Melchior Grimm. Letters to Johann Christoph Gottsched , St. Ingbert 1998
(Ed.) Livres, lectures, envois d'auteur. Catalog de la bibliothèque de Roger Martin du Gard , Paris 2000
(Ed.) (Together with Hisayasu Nakagawa) L'image de l'autre vue d'Asie et d'Europe [Actes des colloques internationaux des 21 and 22 November 1997 à Nagoya et du 17 September 1998 à Kyôto, Japon] , Paris 2007
(Ed.) (Together with Véronique Otto) Correspondance privée de Frédéric-Melchior Grimm 1723-1807 , Paris / Genève 2009

literature

L'Allemagne et la France des Lumières - German and French Enlightenment. Mélanges offers à Jochen Schlobach par ses élèves et ses amis. Etudes réunies par Michel Delon et Jean Mondot, Champion, Paris 2003 (Festschrift with list of publications)
Michel Delon: In memoriam Jochen Schlobach, in: Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 104, 2004, pp. 505–507

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personal data
SURNAME	Schlobach, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH	September 20, 2003