Ludwig Richter (literary scholar)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ludwig Richter (born March 29, 1934 in Waltersdorf bei Zittau ) is a German Slavic scholar and literary scholar.

Life

Richter studied Slavic Studies from 1952 to 1956 at the University of Leipzig . In 1963 he did his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin on German-Czech-Slovak cultural relations in the 17th and 18th centuries. Century. In 1979 he completed his habilitation with a monograph on development trends in Slovak literature since the Vormärz to become a Dr. sc. phil. In 1985 the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (Berlin) awarded him the professorship for Slovak and Bohemian Studies .

From 1959 to 1991 he worked as a research assistant and later as a research group leader at the Institute for Slavic Studies and the Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. After its dissolution, he worked from 1992 to 1995 as a project manager in the research focus on the history and culture of East Central Europe and then until 1999 in the humanities center for the history and culture of East Central Europe. V. in Leipzig. During this time he taught Slovak literary history at the University of Leipzig.

Richter is also a translator from Slovak and Czech and the editor of five prose anthologies.

As a well-known Slovakian, he was honored with the international study volume Slovak Culture and Literature in Self and External Understanding. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary, an extensive, exclusive interview was published in the organ of the Slovak Writers' Union.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • The Zittau grammar school as a mediator between Czech-Slovakian-German scientific and cultural relations during the period of the work of Christian Weise and Christian Pescheck 1678–1744 (dissertation), Berlin 1963
  • Slovak literature. Development trends from pre-March to the present , Berlin 1979
  • As co-editor: literature in transition. Developments in European socialist countries 1944 / 45–1980 , Berlin / Weimar 1986, ISBN 3-351-00194-0
  • Edited with Heinrich Olschowsky : Literatures Ost- und Südosteuropas: a subject dictionary , Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-323-00322-5
  • Edited with Heinrich Olschowsky: Im Dissens zur Macht. Samizdat and exile literature from the countries of East Central and Southeast Europe . Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002629-4
  • Slovak literature in German translations. A bibliography of book publications 1900–1998 , Martin 1999, ISBN 80-7090-531-X
  • Šmatlák, Stanislav; Petrík, Vladimír; Richter, Ludwig: History of Slovak literature and its reception in the German-speaking area (translated from the Slovak. Ms. and scientific editor of the German version: Ludwig Richter), Bratislava 2003, ISBN 80-88878-83-7
  • The correspondence between Bohuslav Balbín and Christian Weise 1678–1688. Latin-German edition (edited, introduced and commented by Ludwig Richter), Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09688-1

literature

  • (Interview with Ludwig Richter). In: Literárny týždenník , No. 42/1996, p. 1.10.
  • Judge, Ludwig . In: Slovník slovenských spisovateľov 20. storočia, Bratislava / Martin 2001, p. 391, 2nd edition 2008, p. 404–405.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kliems, Alfrun (ed.): Slovak culture and literature in self-understanding and understanding of others. Ludwig Richter on his 70th birthday , Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08676-5
  2. ↑ (exclusive interview with Ludwig Richter). In: Literárny týždenník , No. 9-10 / 2014, pp. 9-10.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist, literary scholar, translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltersdorf near Zittau