Olaf Deutschmann

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Olaf Deutschmann (born March 14, 1912 in Hamburg ; † August 7, 1989 in Munich ) was a German Romance studies , Hispanic and linguist .

life and work

After studying in Hamburg, Paris and Madrid, Deutschmann received his doctorate in Hamburg in 1938 under Fritz Krüger with studies on the popular expression of the imagination of quantities (Hamburg 1938, 1953). He then spent a time with Mario Roques at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris , took state exams in Latin, French and Spanish in 1939 and did his legal clerkship. As a critic of National Socialism, he was not admitted to the second state examination and a university career was closed to him. From 1940 to 1945 he did military service.

In 1945 he became an assistant at the Romance Seminar in Hamburg and completed his habilitation in 1947 with Zum Adverb in Romansh (Tübingen 1959). In 1951 he got a diet lecturer in Freiburg, then went to Saarbrücken to work as an associate professor for Spanish language and literature and in 1954 as an associate professor for Romance philology at the University of Freiburg . In 1960 he received an offer to Frankfurt, which he turned down in favor of converting his position to a full professorship for Romance linguistics. In 1969 he took early retirement due to illness, but in the eighties taught again in Freiburg as an honorary professor.

His grave is in Hamburg.

Other works

  • Latin and Romansh , Munich 1971
  • Unwritten poetry in Spain , Frankfurt a. M. 1988
  • Spanish romances , Frankfurt a. M. 1989

literature

  • Romania historica et Romania hodierna. Festschrift for Olaf Deutschmann on his 70th birthday March 14, 1982 , Frankfurt a. M. 1982
  • Obituary in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch 40, 1989, pp. IX-XII

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personal data
SURNAME Deutschmann, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies, Hispanic and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1989
Place of death Munich