Klaus W. Hempfer
Klaus Willi Hempfer (* 1942 ) is a German Romance studies and literary scholar . His focus is on French and Italian literature of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment as well as genre , fiction and interpretation theory.
From 1962 Klaus Hempfer studied English and Romance languages at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he passed the state examination in 1967. In 1970 the doctorate followed and four years later the habilitation at the same university. Hempfer then became scientific advisor and professor at the Institute for Romance Philology at LMU Munich, until he was finally appointed to a chair in Romance philology at the Free University of Berlin in 1977 .
Hempfer has been a visiting professor in the role of senior professor at the Free University of Berlin since 2014.
His best-known work, Genre Theory - Information and Synthesis , appeared in 1973. In it, Hempfer coined in particular the concept of spelling as a distinction to the literary genre.
literature
- Furrier Scholars, online, issue 21, 2007.
- Irina O. Rajewsky , Ulrike Schneider (Hrsg.): In the sign of fiction. Aspects of fictional speech from a historical and systematic point of view. Festschrift for Klaus W. Hempfer on his 65th birthday. Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09278-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus W. Hempfer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Klaus W. Hempfer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Works by Klaus W. Hempfer on the Franz Steiner Verlag website
Individual evidence
- ^ Profile of Klaus W. Hempfer on the website of the Institute for Romance Philology at the Free University of Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hempfer, Klaus W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hempfer, Klaus-W .; Hempfer, Klaus Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |