Konrad Huber (Romanist)

Konrad Huber (born January 30, 1916 in Meilen ; † June 29, 1994 ibid) was a Swiss Romance philologist .

life and work

As a child, Huber spent eight years in Santa Fe (Argentina) . He attended high school in Zurich and studied Romance languages ​​there. In 1943 he did his doctorate under Jakob Jud with On the Hist and Storage Types of the Central Alpine Region. A factual and linguistic historical study (Zurich 1944). From 1943 to 1946 he and his wife ran the Swiss school in Lima . From 1950 to 1964 he was Associate Professor, from 1964 to 1981 Full Professor of Romance Philology (Italian and Rhaeto-Romanic linguistics) at the University of Zurich . Huber founded the “Centro di ricerca per la storia e l'onomastica ticinese” at the University of Zurich.

Other works

• Robert von Planta (Gre.): Rhaetian name book. Volume 3: Konrad Huber: The personal names of Graubünden with views of neighboring areas (= Romanica Helvetica. Vol. 101). 2 volumes. Francke, Bern 1986, ISBN 3-317-01601-9 ;
  • Volume 1: Family names derived from first names.
  • Volume 2: Family names derived from nicknames.
• (Edited together with Gustav Ineichen ): Jakob Jud : Romance language history and language geography. Selected essays. Atlantis-Verlag, Zurich et al. 1973, ISBN 3-7611-0401-4 .

literature

• Renato Martinoni, Vittorio F. Raschèr (eds.): Problemi linguistici nel mondo alpino. Ticino - Grigioni - Italia. Atti del Convegno di studi in onore di Konrad Huber ( Robiei , July 4-5, 1981) (= Romanica Neapolitana. Vol. 12). Liguori, Napoli 1983, ISBN 88-207-1215-6 (with bibliography Konrad Huber, pp. 11-14).
• Mario Frasa: Huber, Konrad. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Alexi Decurtins, Konrad Huber (1916-1994) , Annalas da la Societad Retorumantscha 108 (1995), pp. 247–249 (with picture)