Oscar Büdel
Oscar Büdel , also Oscar Budel , (born June 22, 1923 in Wiesen ) is an American Romanist and Italianist of German origin.
Life
Büdel studied in Würzburg, Frankfurt and Rome. He received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg in 1950 with the work Pirandello's poems on theater and the art-life antinomy and was lecturer for German in Rome from 1951 to 1954. Then he went to the University of Washington in Seattle , where he was an assistant professor from 1956 to 1960 and an associate professor from 1961 to 1964. From 1965 to 1987 he was professor of Italian at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . Büdel was the Romance editor of the magazine Modern Language Quarterly . He researched mainly on Petrarch and Pirandello .
Works
- Francesco Petrarca and the literary baroque, Krefeld, Scherpe, 1963.
- Pirandello , London, Bowes and Bowes, 1966.
- (Collaboration) Hans Hinterhäuser , end of the century, turn of the century . Part 2, Wiebelsheim, Aula-Verl., 1976 (New Handbook of Literary Studies 19).
Web links
- Literature by and about Oscar Büdel in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://um2017.org/faculty-history/faculty/oscar-budel (appreciation for retirement, English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Büdel, Oscar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Budel, Oscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romanist and Italianist of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | grasslands |