Lothar Wolf (Linguist)

Lothar Wolf (* 2. December 1938 in Walldürn ; † 15. June 2012 ) was a German linguist , Frankokanadist , medievalist , Dialektologe and linguist.

life and work

Wolf passed the Abitur in 1958 in Weinheim . He studied Romance studies, English and Indo-European studies in Heidelberg, Strasbourg, Florence and Barcelona. In 1962 he passed the state examination at the University of Heidelberg . He received his doctorate there in 1966 under Kurt Baldinger with the work Linguistic Geographical Investigations on the names for pets in the Massif Central. Attempt to interpret language cards (Tübingen 1968). In 1971 he also completed his habilitation in Heidelberg with the thesis Terminological Investigations on the Introduction of Book Printing in the French Language Area (Tübingen 1979) and represented chairs in Trier and Munich. From 1973 until his retirement in 2004 he was a full professor for Romance linguistics with special emphasis on French at the University of Augsburg . From 1978 to 1982 he was also a senator at that university.

Wolf was an honorary doctor of the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada (1997).

Works (selection)

• (Ed.) Texts and documents on French language history. 16th century . Tubingen 1969
• (Ed.) Texts and documents on French language history. 17th century . Tübingen 1972
• Aspects of dialectology. A presentation of French-based methods . Tuebingen 1975
• (Ed. With Manfred Höfler , Henri Vernay) Festschrift for Kurt Baldinger 's 60th birthday, November 17, 1979 , Tübingen 1979
• (with Werner Hupka) Old French. Origin and characteristics. An introduction . Darmstadt 1981
• Le Français regional d' Alsace . Etude critique des alsacianismes , avec la collaboration de Paul Fischer, Paris 1983
• French language in Canada . Munich 1987
• (Ed. With Hans-Josef Niederehe) Français du Canada - français de France. Actes du colloque de Trèves du 26 on 28 September 1985 . Tübingen 1987
• (Ed. With Hans-Josef Niederehe ) Français du Canada - français de France. Actes du troisième Colloque international d'Augsbourg du 13 au 17 may 1991 , Tübingen 1993

literature

• Mélanges offers au Professeur Lothar Wolf. "Je parle, donc je suis ... de quelque part" . Texts rassemblés et édités par Brigitte Horiot, Elmar Schafroth, Marie-Rose Simoni-Aurembou. Center d'études linguistiques, Lyon 2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Lothar Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Lothar Wolf in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• List of publications - List of publications de Lothar Wolf, University of Augsburg
• Wolf: L'émancipation d'une minorité linguistique d'ordre qualitatif: Le franco-québécois , Journal for Canada Studies, 1998, 34, pp. 42–48
• Wolf: On the language-political situation in Quebec, Journal for Canada Studies , 1981, 1, pp. 41–50
• Wolf at Sherbrooke University
• Obituary by Elmar Schafroth, University of Düsseldorf , on romanistik.de
• Detailed obituary by Ursula Reutner in the journal for Romance philology