Klaus Heger

Klaus Heger (born June 22, 1927 in Wiesbaden ; † December 8, 1993 in Heidelberg ) was a German Romance studies and linguist .

life and work

Heger grew up in Darmstadt . As a soldier in World War II, he was taken prisoner by the United States on the Mexican border for one year . In this way he got to know the English and Spanish languages. From 1946 he studied Spanish and Arabic studies in Heidelberg , Basel and Madrid (with Gerhard Hess , August Rüegg , Walther von Wartburg , Rudolf Tschudi , Karl Jaspers and Emilio García Gómez ) . In 1952 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg with a work by Baltasar Gracián, which was suggested by Gerhard Hess . An investigation into the language and moralistic of Conceptismo (Heidelberg 1952, Spanish: Zaragoza 1960, 1982). After three years in an industrial company, he became Kurt Baldinger's assistant in 1957 . He completed his habilitation with The Designation of Temporal Deictic Concepts in the French and Spanish Conjugation System (Tübingen 1963). In 1963 he was appointed to a chair in Romance studies in Kiel , and in 1969 to a chair in general linguistics in Heidelberg. Heger named Karl Bühler , Lucien Tesnière and Erwin Koschmieder as his linguistic stimuli .

Since 1979 he has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Other works

• The previously published Harǧas and their interpretations , Tübingen 1960
• Monem, word and sentence , Tübingen 1971
• (together with Elisabeth Gülich and Wolfgang Raible ) Linguistic text analysis. Reflections on the structure of texts , Hamburg 1974, 2nd edition 1979
• Monem, word, sentence and text , Tübingen 1976
• (Ed., Together with János S. Petöfi) Case theory, classification, semantic interpretation. Contributions to lexicology and semantics , Hamburg 1977
• Language comparison and semantics. The example of the grammatical categories “person” and “number” , Heidelberg 1980
• (together with Klaus Mudersbach) Actant models. Assignment and installation rules , Birkenau 1984
• Inflected forms, vocabulary and parts of speech , Birkenau 1985

literature

• Susanne R. Anschütz (ed.): Texts, sentences, words and monemes. Festschrift for Klaus Heger on his 65th birthday , Heidelberg 1992
• Klaus Heger: Consistency or Curiosity? In: Paths in Linguistics. Forty-four autobiographical accounts. Festschrift for Mario Wandruszka , Tübingen 1991, pp. 104–108
• Klaus Heger: Basel - A stronghold of Romance studies after the Second World War. Memories of my semesters in Basel , in: Lingua et Traditio. History of Linguistics and Newer Philologies , ed. by Richard Baum , Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft , Tübingen 1994, pp. 617–620

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Heger in the catalog of the German National Library