Joseph-François Angelloz

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Joseph-François Angelloz

Joseph-François Angelloz (born October 7, 1893 in Frangy , † March 29, 1978 in Thônes ) was a French German studies and university professor. He was rector of the Saarland University in Saarbrücken , Montpellier University and Strasbourg University .

Life

Angelloz was born in 1893 as the son of gendarme Edouard Angelloz (1859-1925) and his wife Marie Binvignat (1863-1964). After his military service he studied German in Annecy , Lyon and Leipzig until 1920 . In 1936 he received his doctorate under Henri Lichtenberger as Doctor ès lettres , in November 1960 he was awarded the Dr. phil. hc awarded.

Between 1921 and 1942 he was employed at high schools in Rochefort s / Mer, Laon, Paris and at the Lycée Français in Düsseldorf before he was appointed professor at the University of Caen in 1942 . In 1950 he became the new rector at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. After the Saarland became part of Germany, Angelloz was replaced in 1956 and moved to Montpellier University as rector. From 1958 he was rector at the University of Strasbourg, where he retired in 1964.

After his retirement, Angelloz became mayor of Thônes ( Haute-Savoie ) in 1965 , where he was in office until 1973.

Act

Angelloz was considered an important Goethe and Rilke researcher. He was a co-founder of the Études Germaniques . Under his aegis, the Saarland University became a university with a European focus: in 1951, the European Institute was founded at the university . Angelloz had to assert himself against the French government and the High Commissioner Gilbert Grandval , who wanted the university to be more Francophile.

Works

author

  • Rilke, l'évolution spirituelle du poète . P. Hartmann, 1936 (Prix Montyon of the Académie française )
  • La littérature allemande des origines à nos jours . PUF, 1942
  • Les plus beaux poèmes allemands . PUF, 1947
  • Goethe . Mercure de France, 1949
  • Rilke . Mercure de France, 1952
  • Guide de l'étudiant germaniste . PUF, 1970
  • Le romantisme allemand . PUF, 1973
  • Le classicisme allemand . PUF, 1975

translator

  • Rainer Maria Rilke : Les Elégies de Duino . P. Hartmann, 1936
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Les affinités électives . Aubier, 1942.
  • Gottfried Keller : The green Heinrich . Didier, 1942
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: Les Elégies de Duino , Sonnets à Orphée . Aubier, 1943
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: The notes of Malte Laurids Brigge . Belin, 1947
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: Cornet Christoph Rilke , New Poems . Hachette, 1952
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Les souffrances du jeune Werther . Aubier, 1968

Awards

literature

  • August Stahl: Joseph François Angelloz 1893-1978 . In: Gerhard Sauder (Ed.): Germanists in the East of France , St. Ingbert 2002, pp. 57–81
  • Wolfgang Müller: Angelloz, Joseph-François. In: Nicole Colin / Corine Defrance / Ulrich Pfeil / Joachim Umlauf (eds.): Lexicon of Franco-German cultural relations after 1945, 2nd expanded edition, Tübingen 2015, pp. 98–99.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Müller: The University of the Saarland as between France and Germany . In: Mechthild Gilzmer, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Christoph Vatter (Eds.): 50 Years of the Elysée Contract (1963-2013) . Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, p. 239
  2. Josef Adlof Schmoll called Eisenwerth: The beginnings of art history at the Saarland University in the context of cultural policy between 1948 and 1966 . In: Christa Lichtenstern, Wolfgang Müller: The Art History Institute of the Saarland University: Life pictures . P. 26f, footnote 12