Karl Knauer (Romanist)

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Karl Knauer (born August 16, 1906 in Hamburg , † May 22, 1966 in Munster ) was a German Romance philologist .

life and work

Knauer graduated from high school in Augsburg and studied in Munich from 1925. He received his doctorate there in 1929 as a student of Eugen Lerch with contributions to the expression of the abstract in French. State (property) and movement-thinking acts in the old French language (in: Romanische Forschungen 44, 1930, pp 185-254), was then a lecturer in Lille until 1932 and habilitated in 1935 (submitted 1933) in Münster with Eugen Lerch An artist of poetic prose in French pre-Romanticism. Jean-François Marmontel (Bochum 1936). Then he taught in Münster, from 1935 as an adjunct professor, from 1939 as a civil servant dietician of the new order, from 1942 as an adjunct professor, from 1960 as a scientific adviser and associate professor.
For quantitative linguistics , Knauer is important with his multiple efforts to achieve a statistically sound style.

Knauer joined the Catholic Church in 1935 and left the SA in 1938.

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on the history of color determination in French from the beginnings to the end of the 18th century. In: Archivum Romanicum , Volume 17, 1933, No. 2.
  • An artist of poetic prose in French pre-Romanticism: Jean-François Marmontel. Habilitation thesis. Printing: Heinrich Pöppinghaus, Bochum-Langendreer 1936.
  • 30 hours of Spanish for beginners . Berlin 1939. 15th edition, together with José Pizzaro, Langenscheidt, Berlin 1957.
  • Artistic creation in the service of the national community and the political propaganda of France in the age of national consolidation (from Francis I to Louis XIV.) . Stuttgart / Berlin 1944 (81 pages) (1 copy in the Stuttgart State Library)
  • Limits of the science of the word. In: Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Year 1950, No. 13, pp. 1077-1093. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, Wiesbaden: in commission Franz Steiner Verlag 1950.
  • Encyclopedic French-German and German-French dictionary . Addendum to Sachs-Villatte, Encyclopedic Dictionary of French and German. Part I: French-German; Part II: German - French , 2 volumes, Berlin 1952, 1956, 1964 (with Ernst-Erwin Lange-Kowal)
  • Vulgar French. Character traits and tendencies of the current French vocabulary , Hueber, Munich 1954.
  • Basic questions of a mathematical style. In: Research and Progress 29, 1955, pages 140-149.
  • (with Elisabeth Knauer) Bertelsmann dictionary French-German, German-French . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1960.
  • The analysis of fine structures in the linguistic contemporary work of art. Investigations on Baudelaire's sonnets. In: Helmut Kreuzer, Rul Gunzenhäuser (ed.): Mathematics and poetry. On the question of an exact literary study. Nymphenburger, Munich 1965, 4th, revised edition 1971, pages 193-210. ISBN 3-485-03303-0 .

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Best : Karl Knauer (1906-1966) , in: Glottometrics 12, 2006, 86-94 (PDF full text ). (Reprinted in: Karl-Heinz Best (Ed.): Studies on the History of Quantitative Linguistics. Volume 1. RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2015, pages 89-98. ISBN 978-3-942303-30-9 .)
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”, 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 149–152, 728, 754

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personal data
SURNAME Knauer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1966
Place of death Muenster