Karl August Ott
Karl August Ott (born April 18, 1921 in Helsa ; † December 24, 1991 in Kiel ) was a German Romanist .
Life
Ott graduated from high school in Heidelberg in 1938 and from 1939 studied German and Romance languages at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After military service from 1940 to 1945 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg under Gerhard Hess in 1947 with the thesis The language attitude of the 17th century in the "Remarques sur la langue françoise" by Claude Favre de Vaugelas and in 1960, also with Gerhard Hess, with a thesis on Luigi Pirandello holds his habilitation. He was first appointed to the University of Münster , then to the University of Kiel . From 1966 to 1989 he was full professor of Romance philology there (from 1969 to 1970 also dean). Ott was an honorary doctorate from the University of West Brittany in Brest (1982).
Works
- The person before the court martial. Experience and reflection , Hamburg, Hoffmann & Campe, 1949.
- (Translator) Paule Régnier (1888–1950), The nets in the sea. Roman , Heidelberg, Kerle, 1952 (French original: Les filets de la mer, 1949).
- (Ed.) Luigi Pirandello , Humoresken und Satiren , Heidelberg, Drei Brücken Verlag, 1956 (translated by Hans Hinterhäuser ).
- (Translator with Justus Streller and Alexa Wagner) Jean-Paul Sartre , Being and Nothing. Attempt of a phenomenological ontology , Hamburg, Rowohlt, 1962.
- (Eds. And translator) Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun , Der Rosenroman , 3 vols., Munich, Fink, 1976–1979.
- Der Rosenroman , Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1980 (income from research 145).
- (Ed. And translator) Blaise Pascal , Briefe in die Provinz , Heidelberg, Schneider; Darmstadt, Scientific Book Society, 1990 (Pascal, Werke, 3).
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl August Ott in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Career data, with picture
- Karl August Ott in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
Individual evidence
- ^ Ott, Karl August - Romanistenlexikon. In: lexikon.romanischestudien.de. Retrieved June 17, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ott, Karl August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsa |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1991 |
| Place of death | Kiel |