Manfred Höfler

Manfred Höfler (born October 21, 1937 in Mannheim ; † January 19, 1995 ) was a German Romance philologist , linguist and lexicographer .

life and career

Höfler studied French, English and Latin in Heidelberg and Montpellier. He received his doctorate in 1965 and habilitated in Romance Philology at the University of Heidelberg in 1969 with his teacher Kurt Baldinger . From 1969 until his death he held a chair for Romance studies at the University of Düsseldorf . From 1975 to 1976 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. His numerous publications concern historical linguistics, lexicology and lexicography, primarily of French. Höfler was an excellent expert on dictionary history, for the research of which he set up the archive for Romance lexicography in Düsseldorf.

Selected works

• Investigations into the naming of fabrics and fabrics in French document language , Tübingen 1967
• On the integration of the neo-Latin compositional style in French , Tübingen 1972
• Dictionnaire des anglicismes , Paris 1982
• Dictionnaire de l'art culinaire français , Aix-en-Provence 1996

literature

• Students and friends dedicated the volume Mélanges de lexicographie et de linguistique françaises et romanes dédiés à la mémoire de Manfred Höfler , publ. par Mechtild Bierbach, Barbara von Gemmingen, Wolfgang Rettig and Gilles Roques, Strasbourg-Nancy: Klincksieck 1997 (with list of publications).
• Obituary in French by Barbara von Gemmingen in the Revue de linguistique romane 59, 1995, 338–341.

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Höfler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Manfred Höfler in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)