Karl Maurer (Romanist)

Karl Maurer (born April 15, 1926 in Darmstadt ) is a German Romanist and comparativeist .

Life

Maurer studied Romance Studies, Classical Philology and German in Freiburg , Basel , Lille , Paris and Pisa . In 1951 he did his doctorate in Freiburg with Hugo Friedrich on the poetry of Paul Valéry ; 1955 followed the habilitation in Bonn for the Canti of Giacomo Leopardi .

In 1959 he was appointed full professor at the chair for Romance Philology at the University of Bonn. In 1965 he moved to the newly founded Ruhr University in Bochum , where from 1975 he also held the chair for general and comparative literature . After his retirement he was a visiting professor at Stanford University from 1992 to 1994 . In 2000 he was also a visiting professor at the School of Religion and Philosophy in Saint Petersburg .

Publications (selection)

• Phylosophie domesticus et predicans iustitiam. The political self-image of the poet Dante. In: Hartmut Boockmann, Bernd Moeller , Karl Stackmann (eds.): Life lessons and world designs in the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age. Politics - Education - Natural History - Theology. Report on colloquia of the commission to research the culture of the late Middle Ages 1983 to 1987 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen: philological-historical class. Volume III, No. 179). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-82463-7 , pp. 9-51.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Maurer in the catalog of the German National Library