Klaus Wagner (philologist)

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Klaus Wagner (1999)

Klaus Wagner (born February 6, 1937 in Rheindiebach ; † September 30, 2005 in Seville ) was a German philologist in Seville. He was a specialist in the history of books and literature in Spain in the sixteenth century.

Life

From 1947 to 1956 Wagner attended the Hofmann Institute , a state-recognized private high school in Sankt Goarshausen . In Untersekunda, before a school trip to Spain, he was chosen to learn the Spanish language and be an interpreter for the class. After three months at the adult education center, I developed a lifelong love of Spanish poetry, especially Federico García Lorca . After graduating from high school, he studied Hispanic Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 1957 he became active in the Corps Hassia-Gießen in Mainz . 1957/58 he was an exchange student of the German Academic Exchange Service at the University of Barcelona . He then received a scholarship from the Italian Cultural Institute in Cologne at the University of Pisa . In 1960 he went to the German Cultural Institute in Madrid as a teacher . With a doctoral thesis on Lope de Vega , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. The University of Seville appointed him in the same year as a lecturer in ancient Spanish literature. He stayed that way on the basis of annual contracts for 20 years. Since his German dissertation was not recognized, he wrote a new one, via the Sevillian printer Martin de Montesdoca. In view of his international reputation, Seville's Philosophy Faculty accepted him as a regular member in 1984. In 1988 she appointed him professor of Spanish literature. His hobby was Hernando Colon , especially his private library, the Biblioteca Colombina . Wagner wrote a lot about the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus and liked to refer to him as "his stepson". His professional interest was in the time of Charles V , about which he gave lectures all over the world in the last years of his life. As stressful and fatal as the journeys were, for Wagner the invitations to the congresses were satisfaction and honorable recognition of his work: “I am now bringing in what I have sown in decades of work.” In February 2000 at the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras recorded, he reported in an interview with Corps-Magazin about the creation, tasks and work of the Spanish academies and about the relationship between Spain and Germany and the European Union.

Wagner was married to Spanish women twice. The first divorced marriage resulted in two children. Before his death, his second wife Paulina wrote that Wagner's greatest happiness was his friends. Among them was Philip W. Fabry .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Klaus Wagner in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
  2. ↑ Wagner's dissertation from 1966 in the Mainz University Library
  3. ↑ a b Wolfram Mascus: Prof. Dr. phil. Klaus Wagner . Hessenzeitung (Corpszeitung der Hassia-Gießen), winter semester 2005/06
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 66/1314.
  5. ↑ The dissertation was published in 1966: Lope de Vega Carpio. "Comedia famosa de dineros son calidad" . Mainz Romance Works, Vol. V, Wiesbaden 1966
  6. ^ Clive Griffin: Klaus Wagner (1937–2005) . Bulletin of Spanish Studies 83 (2006), pp. 557-561
  7. ↑ CORPS, das Magazin I / 2001, p. 19
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner Erbskorn, Klaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Hispanist in Seville
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheindiebach
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2005
Place of death Seville