Johann Sofer

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Johann Sofer (born September 11, 1901 in Pola , Istria , † July 26, 1970 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Romance philologist.

Life

Johann (actually: Johannes) Sofer studied Romance Studies and Classical Philology at the University of Vienna , among others with Paul Kretschmer . In 1920 he spent a semester at Lund University in Sweden . 1925 doctorate Sofer to Dr. phil. and from 1926 worked as a secondary school teacher. In 1946 he completed his habilitation in Vienna. In the winter semester of 1963/64 and in the summer semester of 1964, Sofer took on the substitute professorship for Kuhn at the University of Innsbruck . He then taught as a private lecturer at the University of Vienna. With regard to the denazification of the University of Vienna, a new beginning was set in linguistics with Sofer.

Works

  • Sofer, Johann (1930). Latin and Romance from the Etymologiae of Isidorus of Seville. Research on Latin and Romance word studies. (Research on Greek and Latin grammar 9). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • Sofer, Johann (1934). Hugo von Hofmannsthal's world theaters and their prerequisites at Heraklit and Calderon . (Lectures and treatises by the Austrian Leo Society, 37). Vienna: Mayer & Co.
  • Sofer, Johann (1951). Antiquity in French intellectual history . Vienna: Sexl.
  • Sofer, Johann (1960). Albert Camus (1913-1960) . Freiburg: Herder.
  • Sofer, Johann (1960). Claudel Studies . (Modern languages ​​3). Vienna: Association of Austrian New Philologists.
  • Sofer, Johann (1963). Claudel's judgments on the United States . Vienna: Association of Austrian New Philologists.
  • Sofer, Johann (1963). On the problem of vulgar Latin . Results and suggestions. Vienna: Gerold.
  • Sofer, Johann (1965). Dante and Austria . (Modern languages ​​10). Vienna: Association of Austrian New Philologists.
  • Sofer, Johann (1965). Methodical and didactic remarks on research into Vulgar Latin . Vienna: Association of Austrian New Philologists.

literature

  • Teichl, Robert (1951). Austrians of the present. Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries . Vienna: Austrian State Printing Office.
  • Tanzmeister, Robert (2010). "The Viennese Romance Studies in National Socialism". In: Ash, Mitchell G. & Niess, Wolfram & Pils, Ramon (eds.). Humanities under National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress. Pp. 199-224.
  • Müller, Reinhard (2015). "Johann Sofer". In: AGSÖ - Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria (ed.). Biographies on sociology in Austria . As at July 2015. < http://agso.uni-graz.at/spannkreis/index.php?ref=biografien/s/sofer_johann >.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tanzmeister, Robert (2010). "The Viennese Romance Studies in National Socialism". In: Ash, Mitchell G. & Niess, Wolfram & Pils, Ramon (eds.). Humanities under National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress. P. 520
personal data
SURNAME Sofer, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sofer, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Romance philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Pola
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1970
Place of death Vienna