Karl-Ludwig Selig

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Karl-Ludwig Selig (born August 14, 1926 in Wiesbaden ; † December 1, 2012 in New York City ) was a German-American Romanist , Hispanic and Italianist .

life and work

Selig was on the run from the Nazis in 1938 in the United States and in 1948 an American citizen . He obtained his master’s degree with the thesis (Ed.) La Hija de Carlos Quinto. Comedia famosa del Doctor Mira de Amescua (Kassel 2002, with an autobiographical preface). Selig received his doctorate in 1955 from the University of Texas at Austin with the thesis Studies on Alciato in Spain (New York 1990) and was Leo Spitzer's last assistant from 1954 to 1958 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . He then taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , the University of Minnesota , the University of Texas , as Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, and from 1969 to 1991 at Columbia University . After his retirement he taught at the University of Greifswald , which honored him with an honorary professorship in 1996.

Other works

  • (Ed. With Anna Granville Hatcher ) Studia philologica et litteraria in honorem Leo Spitzer , Bern 1958
  • The Library of Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, Patron of Gracián , Geneva 1960
  • (Ed. With John Esten Keller) Hispanic studies in honor of Nicholson B. Adams , Chapel Hill 1966
  • (Ed. With Robert Somerville) Florilegium Columbianum. Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller , New York 1987
  • (Ed. With Elizabeth Sears) The Verbal & the Visual. Essays in Honor of William Sebastian Heckscher , New York 1990
  • (Ed.) Polyanthea. Essays on art and literature in honor of William Sebastian Heckscher , Den Haag 1993
  • Studies on Cervantes , Kassel 1993

literature

  • Human texts. About the pan-Romanist Prof. em. Prof. Dr. phil. Karl-Ludwig Selig, in: Journal der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität 7, 1996, 6, p. 3
  • About texts. Festschrift for Karl-Ludwig Selig , ed. by Peter-Eckhard Knabe and Johannes Thiele, Tübingen 1997
  • Karl-Ludwig Selig, "Romance Studies as Passion", in: Klaus-Dieter Ertler (ed.), Romance Studies as Passion. Great moments in recent specialist history II, Berlin a. a. 2011, pp. 409-414

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personal data
SURNAME Blessed, Karl-Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American Romance philologist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 2012
Place of death New York City