Johannes Hösle

Johannes Hösle (born February 25, 1929 in Erolzheim near Biberach an der Riss ; † December 29, 2017 in Regensburg ) was a German Romance studies and literary scholar .

Life

Johannes Hösle received his doctorate in comparative literature from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in 1954 . From 1955 to 1965 he worked as a university lecturer in Milan . From 1961 to 1965 he was also the director of the Goethe Institute in Milan and the director of the German library there. In 1967 he qualified as a professor for Romance philology in Tübingen and in 1968 was appointed professor of Romance literature at the University of Regensburg .

He has published several books and written numerous essays on recent and contemporary literature.

He had been with Carla Hösle, b. Gronda married. The couple had three children, including the philosopher Vittorio Hösle .

Monograph on Cesare Pavese (1961, 1964)
Pietro Aretino's work (1969)
Molière's comedy "Dom Juan" (1978)
Basics of Italian Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries (1979)
Italian theater from the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation (1984)
Molière - His life, his work, his time (1992)
Carlo Goldoni - His Life, His Work, His Time (1993)
Little history of Italian literature . Munich: Beck, 1995.
Contemporary Italian literature. From Cesare Pavese to Dario Fo . Munich: Beck, 1999.
What will happen now? Story of a youth . Munich: Beck, 2002.

personal data
SURNAME	Hösle, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	February 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Erolzheim near Biberach an der Riss
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 2017
Place of death	regensburg