Max Pfister (Romanist)

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Max Pfister (born April 21, 1932 in Zurich ; † October 21, 2017 in Saarbrücken ) was a Swiss Romance studies and linguist .

Life

From 1951/52 until his doctorate in 1958, Pfister studied Romance languages ​​at the University of Zurich . He then worked as a teacher for French and Italian at the cantonal high school in Zurich. In 1968 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich and became a professor at the University of Marburg in 1969 and at the Saarland University in 1974 .

With the Lessico etimologico italiano (LEI) published by him , he initiated a dense network of Italian and German-language research on Italian etymology and dialectology .

From 1986 to 1989 he was President of the international Société de Linguistique Romane .

Honors and memberships

Honors

  • 1988 Honorary Doctorate (Laurea Honoris Causa) from the University of Bari , Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
  • 1991 Honorary doctorate (Laurea Honoris Causa) from the University of Lecce , Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
  • 1993 Galileo Galilei Prize of the Italian Rotary Clubs (Premio Galileo Galilei dei Rotary Club Italiani)
  • 1995 Appointment as officer of the Italian Order of Merit (Ufficiale dell'Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana)
  • 1998 Honorary Doctorate (Laurea Honoris Causa) from the University of Turin , Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
  • 2001 Honorary Doctorate (Laurea Honoris Causa) from the University of Rome , Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
  • 2002 Honorary Doctorate (Laurea Honoris Causa) from the University of Palermo , Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
  • 2005 Awarded the Cassano Prize
  • 2006 Award of a gold medal of merit (Diploma di 1 Classe con Medaglia d'Oro ai Benemeriti della Cultura e dell'Arte) for the year 2005 by the Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in Berlin [1]

Academician

Presidencies and other memberships

Fonts

  • The development of the internal consonant group -PS- in the Romance languages; with special consideration of the old Provencal , Bern, Francke, 1960.
  • Lexical investigations on Girart de Roussillon , Tübingen, Niemeyer, 1970.
  • Lessico Etimologico Italiano , Wiesbaden, Reichert, 1979ff.
  • LEI. Lessico Etimologico Italiano. Supplemento bibliografico con la collaborazione di D. Hauck , Wiesbaden, Reichert, 1979.
  • Gallo-Romanic language colonies in Italy and northern Spain , Wiesbaden / Stuttgart, Steiner, 1988.
  • LEI. Lessico Etimologico Italiano. Supplemento bibliografico con la collaborazione di R. Coluccia, D. Hauck, G. Tancke, Analisi, progettazione informatica ed elaborazione dati a cura di M. Linciano , Wiesbaden 1991.
  • with Wolfgang Kleiber: Aspects and Problems of the Roman-Germanic Continuity. Language continuity on the Moselle, Middle and Upper Rhine as well as in the Black Forest , Stuttgart, Steiner, 1992.
  • Wolfgang Haubrichs : Toponymy and development of the German-French language border. The Merzig-Wadern district and the Moselle between Nennig and Metz , Stuttgart Steiner, 1992.
  • with Antonio Lupis: Introduzione all'etimologia romanza . Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro), Rubbettino, 2001.
  • with Wolfgang Schweickard (edd.): LEI. Lessico Etimologico Italiano. Supplemento bibliografico , Wiesbaden 2002.
  • Traguardi dell'italianistica in Germania: i soci tedeschi dell'Accademia della Crusca Max Pfister, Harro Stammerjohann, Harald Weinrich a Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, accademico honoris causa, Presidente della Repubblica Italiana in visita a Berlino, 30 March 2006 . Accademia della Crusca, Firenze, 2006.
  • Il mestiere dell'etimologo , Trieste, EUT, 2009.

literature

  • Wolfgang Raible: Max Pfister (April 21, 1932– October 21, 2017). In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 2017. Heidelberg 2018, pp. 384–386 ( online ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Obituary for Pfister, FAZ October 26, 2017
  2. ^ Addio to Max Pfister. In: mangialibri.com from October 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ Honorary doctorate for Prof. Pfister . In: Saarland University (Ed.): Campus . No. January 1 , 1999 ( uni-saarland.de [accessed July 10, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Member entry by Max Pfister ( memento from September 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on November 6, 2017
  5. ^ Membership catalog of the Crusca
  6. ^ Historique - Presidents de la Société. In: Internet presence of the Société de Linguistique Romane . Retrieved July 10, 2017 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Pfister, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2017
Place of death Saarbrücken