Lennart Carlsson (Romanist)
Lennart Carlsson (born March 16, 1934 in Eskilstuna ; † May 1991 ) was a Swedish Romance scholar and linguist.
life and work
Carlsson graduated from high school in Eskilstuna and studied in Uppsala , first Latin, then Romance studies. He graduated in 1956, was a high school teacher and was assistant to Bengt Hasselrot at Uppsala University . There he received his doctorate in 1966 with the thesis Le degré de cohésion des groupes subst. + De + subst. en français contemporain, étudié d'après la place accordée à l'adjectif épithète. Avec examen comparatif des groupes correspondants de l'italien et de l'éspagnol (Uppsala 1966). Carlsson was (as successor to his teacher) from 1973 to 1991 professor in Uppsala (successor: Kerstin Jonasson). He was the first professor of Romance languages in Uppsala to fully accept so-called modern linguistics. In this regard he had been influenced by his first teacher Göran Hammarström as early as 1953 .
Other works
- Le type C'est le meilleur livre qu'il ait jamais écrit, en espagnol, en Italien et en français, Uppsala 1969
- (Ed.) Uppsala university 500 years. 6, Faculty of arts at Uppsala university. Linguistics and philology, Uppsala / Stockholm 1976
- (Ed.) Actes du 6e congrès des romanistes scandinaves: Upsal 11-15 août 1975, Uppsala 1977
literature
- Mats Forsgren in: Studia Neophilologica 63, 1991, pp. 221-222
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carlsson, Lennart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish Romance studies and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eskilstuna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1991 |