Max Pfister (Romanist)
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
- 1984 corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (Germany)
- 1985 corresponding member of the Accademia Lucchese di Scienze, Lettere e Arti (Lucca / Italy)
- 1988 corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca (Florence / Italy)
- 1995 corresponding member of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere (Milan / Italy)
- 1998 corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Germany)
- 2006 corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Paris / France)
- 2007 corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome / Italy)
Presidencies and other memberships
- 1975 Member of the Commission for the Old French Etymological Dictionary / Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (DEAF), Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Heidelberg / Germany)
- 1975 Member of the Commission for Old Gas Cognitive Dictionary / Dictionnaire onomasiologique de l'ancien gascon (DAG), Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Heidelberg / Germany)
- 1985 External member of the Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani (Palermo / Italy)
- 1986 to 1989 President of the World Romance Association Société de Linguistique Romane , then Honorary President.
- 1996 Member of the commission for the publication of an Old Occitan dictionary, Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Munich / Germany)
- 1993 President of the Commission of the Vocabolario dei dialetti della Svizzera italiana (Bellinzona / Italy)
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
- Literature by and about Max Pfister in the catalog of the German National Library
- Matteo Pedroni: Pfister, Max. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
- Max Pfister at Saarland University
- Premio Galilei 1993
- The LEI at the Mainz Academy of Sciences ( Memento from March 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Remarks
- ^ Obituary for Pfister, FAZ October 26, 2017
- ^ Addio to Max Pfister. In: mangialibri.com from October 23, 2017.
- ↑ Honorary doctorate for Prof. Pfister . In: Saarland University (Ed.): Campus . No. January 1 , 1999 ( uni-saarland.de [accessed July 10, 2017]).
- ↑ 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
- ^ Membership catalog of the Crusca
- ^ Historique - Presidents de la Société. In: Internet presence of the Société de Linguistique Romane . Retrieved July 10, 2017 (French).
personal data | |
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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 |