Ludwig Söll

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Ludwig Söll (born September 7, 1931 in Hof ; † March 1, 1974 in Regensburg ) was a German Romance studies and linguist .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Söll was accepted into the Maximilianeum Foundation of the State of Bavaria and studied in Munich, Salamanca and Paris . He received his doctorate in 1956 from the University of Munich under Hans Rheinfelder with studies on the precise use of words in the French language of the 17th century. (unprinted). From 1955 to 1961 in the school service, he completed his habilitation in 1964 with the work The designations for the forest in the Romance languages .

From 1966 to 1967 Söll was a professor at the Technical University of Berlin and from 1967 full professor at the University of Regensburg . He turned down offers to the University of Vienna and the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken . In Regensburg, Söll was department spokesman from 1968 to 1969 and a senator from 1971 to 1972 . Since 1972 he has been an elected reviewer for the German Research Foundation for Romance Studies.

Söll is one of the German Romance students who have opened the subject in a striking way to the linguistics of modern French with relevance for practice. The classic expression for this was his book Spoken and Written French , as well as a number of essays classified as groundbreaking in the professional world.

Fonts

  • The names for the forest in the Romance languages. Munich: Hueber 1967.
  • Spoken and written French. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1974. (New editions 1980 and 1985, revised by Franz Josef Hausmann .)
  • Franz Josef Hausmann (Ed.): Études de grammaire française descriptive. Essays. Heidelberg: Groos 1983.

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SURNAME Söll, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1974
Place of death regensburg