Leo Pollmann

Leo Pollmann (born May 3, 1930 in Bocholt , † December 19, 2009 in Stegen ) was a German Romance studies and literary scholar .

life and work

After studying at the Münster , Sorbonne ( Paris ) and Freiburg , Pollmann received his doctorate from the latter under Hugo Friedrich in 1955 with The Tractatus "De Amore" by Andreas Capellanus and his position in the history of the amortization theory and went to school for ten years.

He completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 1965 on Love in the High Medieval Literature of France. Attempt at a historical phenomenology . In 1966 he was appointed to the Technical University of Berlin , from there he held a visiting professorship in Valparaíso and taught from 1968 to 1979 as a full professor at the University of Erlangen , from 1979 until his retirement in 1998 at the University of Regensburg .

Chrétien de Troyes and the Conte del Graal . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1965 (supplements to the magazine for Romance philology ; vol. 110).
Trobarclus, Bible exegesis and Hispano-Arabic literature. (Research on Romance Philology; Vol. 16). Aschendorff, Münster 1965.
The epic in the Romance literatures. Loss and changes. (Language and Literature; Vol. 34). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966.
Sartre and Camus . Literature of existence . (Language and Literature; Vol. 40). 3. Edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002817-0 .
The New Roman in France and Latin America. (Language and Literature; Vol. 49). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1968.
From the workshop of the novel. Arithmetic novel formulas. (Living knowledge). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1969.
The French novel in the 20th century. Draft of a story of the mythical self-image of our time. (Language and Literature; Vol. 63). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1970.
Literary Studies and Method . 2nd Edition. VG Athenaion, Frankfurt am Main 1971 (2 vol.)

History of French Literature . A story of consciousness . VG Athenaion, Frankfurt am Main 1974/78 (3 vol.).

History of the Latin American novel . E. Schmidt-Verlag, Berlin 1982/84 (2 vol.).

The literary self-discovery. 1810–1929 (Basics of Romance Studies; Vol. 11). 1982, ISBN 3-503-01662-7 .
The literary self-realization. 1930–1979 (Basics of Romance Studies; Vol. 14). 1984, ISBN 3-503-01695-3 .

History of contemporary French literature (1880–1980) . Scientific book club, Darmstadt 1984, ISBN 3-534-09199-X .
Argentine poetry in a Latin American context. The Roberto Juarroz case. With a German-Spanish anthology . Winter, Heidelberg 1987, ISBN 3-533-03897-1 .
Spanish literature between Orient and Occident . Francke, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-7720-2170-0 .
La separación de los estilos. Para una historia de la conciencia literaria argentina. (Teoría y crítica de la cultura y literatura; Vol. 13). Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-89354-213-2 .
Great moments of female writing. Dissolve and recover . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-58309-8 .
What is really in the Koran ? 2nd Edition. Scientific book club, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-25636-5 .

Claude Tresmontant : Les Idées maîtresses de la métaphysique chrétienne . Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1962.
- The reason of belief. The challenge of metaphysics through the church teaching . Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1964.
Marguerite-Marie Dubois : Generations en conflit . Éditions du Chalten, Lyon 1963.
- The bridge of understanding. The generation problem in the family . Pastoral care publishing house, Freiburg / B. 1964.

Eckhard Höfner, Konrad Schoell (ed.): Narrated world. Studies of narratives in France, Spain and Latin America. Festschrift for Leo Pollmann . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-89354-208-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pollmann, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bocholt
DATE OF DEATH	December 19, 2009
Place of death	Webs