Klaus von Welser

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Klaus von Welser (born July 10, 1942 in Munich ; † October 1, 2014 there ) was a German Germanist and aphorist .

Life

Klaus von Welser worked from 1969 to 1982 as a research assistant at the Bibliographica Judaica in Frankfurt am Main . He received his doctorate in comparative literature from the Free University of Berlin . For several decades he wrote writings, essays and books on the subject of aphorism . He also worked as an aphorist himself. Until his retirement he worked full-time at CDI Deutsche Private Akademie für Wirtschaft GmbH in Munich as a product manager, managing director and institute director. In 2012 and 2013 he wrote a media-critical column in the magazine Die Gazette .

Publications

  • The language of aphorism. Forms of implicit reasoning from Lichtenberg to the present. (= Berlin contributions to recent German literary history. Volume 8). Publishing house Peter Lang , Frankfurt am Main 1986.
  • Aphorisms. In: G. Cantarutti, H. Schumacher (Hrsg.): Newer studies on aphorism and essay writing. (= Berlin contributions to recent German literary history. Vol. 9). Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1986, pp. 29-46.
  • as editor: German aphorisms . Piper Verlag , Munich 1988.
  • Case by case. Aphorisms . YesYes-NoNo Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-942206-04-4 .
  • Stumbling encourages. Aphorisms. YesYes-NoNo Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-942206-05-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice on: sueddeutsche.de , October 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ Klaus von Welser. In: Litfass, Volume 12, Issue 44 - Volume 13, Issue 47. , Litfass, p. 192
  3. ↑ Klaus von Welser. In: Life in Language.
  4. ↑ Klaus von Welser. In: The language of aphorism: forms of implicit reasoning from Lichtenberg to the present. , Lang, 1986
  5. ↑ [1] , p. 42
  6. ↑ [2] , p. 168
  7. ↑ [3] , p. 40
  8. ↑ [4]
personal data
SURNAME Welser, Klaus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and aphorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2014
Place of death Munich