Karlheinz Stierle
Karlheinz Stierle (born November 22, 1936 in Stuttgart ) is a German Romance philologist and literary scholar .
Life
Stierle attended elementary school in Stuttgart and Heidelberg and then passed his Abitur at the Heidelberg Business School in 1956. He then studied German , Romance languages, English and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg , Montpellier , Münster and Giessen . In 1963 he completed his dissertation in Giessen with Hans Robert Jauß with the thesis Darkness and Form in the Chimères by Gérard de Nerval and subsequently became an assistant to his doctoral supervisor. He followed him to the newly founded University of Konstanz in 1966 . From 1964 onwards he took part in the conferences of the research group Poetics and Hermeneutics . In 1968 he completed his habilitation in Konstanz. From 1969 to 1988 he was professor of Romance Philology and Literature at the University of Bochum , leaning in that time several calls from ( Bielefeld University , University of Amsterdam , Free University of Berlin ). In 1988 he was appointed to the chair of Romance literatures and general literary studies at the University of Konstanz as a successor to his doctoral supervisor Hans Robert Jauß, which he held until his retirement in 2004.
His research interests are the history of form in French and Italian literature, historical semantics , a systematic literary study based on the theory of language action , Dante and Petrarch between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , Paris literature and moral studies .
Memberships and honors
- since 1989 full member of the Academia Europaea
- since 1995 member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 2003–2005 Chairman of the German Association of Romanists
- 2003–2009 Membre du comité international scientifique et stratégique du Collège de France
- 2003–2014 member of the price committee of the Balzan Foundation
- 2005 election to the corresponding member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France
- 2008 appointment as honorary professor at the University of Saarland
- 2009 admission as socio straniero to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 2010 Appointment as honorary member of the Società dantesca italiana
- 2014 Appointment as Commendatore dell 'ordine "Al merito della Repubblica Italiana"
- 2016 Appointment as Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Web links
- Literature by and about Karlheinz Stierle in the catalog of the German National Library
- List of publications as PDF
- Website at Saarland University
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stierle, Karlheinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romance studies and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |