Marcella Roddewig

Marcella Roddewig (* May 8, 1918 ; † December 24, 2000 in Düsseldorf ) was a German Germanist , Romance scholar and Dante researcher .

life and work

Marcella Burger studied German, Latin and French in Heidelberg and received her doctorate in 1945 under Paul Böckmann on the objectivity in Mörike's lyrical behavior (Heidelberg 1948). As an assistant (1943–1948) to Gerhard Hess , she came to Romance studies. In 1950 she married the architect Ernst Roddewig from Trier and moved to Düsseldorf. After the death of Hans Rheinfelder , she took over the publication of the German Dante yearbook of the German Dante Society in 1972 . Marcella Roddewig was a professor at the University of Düsseldorf .

Other works

• (Ed.) Eduard Mörike, Karlsruhe 1948
• (Ed.) Hans Rheinfelder, Dante Studies, Cologne / Vienna 1975
• Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy. Comparative inventory of the commedia manuscripts, Stuttgart 1984

literature

• Rainer Stillers in: Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch 76, 2001, pp. 11–22 (career and list of publications)
• John Lindon in: Dante Studies 119, 2001, pp. 213-216
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung January 2, 2001, p. 48
• Th. Brückner, Per Dante in Germania: Marcella Roddewig (* May 8, 1918, † December 24, 2000), in: L'Alighieri. Rassegna bibliografica dantesca 18, 2001, pp. 127-130
• Th. Brückner, Marcella Roddewig (* May 8, 1918, † December 24, 2000) in commemoration, in: Mitteilungsblatt der Deutschen Dante-Gesellschaft, June 2001, pp. 15-18
• Th. Brückner, An early Dante publication by Marcella Roddewig, in: Mitteilungsblatt der Deutschen Dante-Gesellschaft, June 2002, pp. 16-18

Web links

• Literature by and about Marcella Roddewig in the catalog of the German National Library