Otto Klapp

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Otto Klapp (born August 1, 1922 in Kassel , † October 30, 1986 in Saarbrücken ) was a German Romance scholar , librarian and bibliographer .

life and work

Klapp received his doctorate in 1952 at the Philipps University of Marburg with the thesis The idg. Root <e> ua- in French <Lat. vanus, vaco, vastus <and vagus> and their derivatives in French>. Word history and history of meaning . He became a librarian at the Saarland University and State Library and started the successful enterprise of a bibliography of French literary studies at the Vittorio Klostermann publishing house in 1960 .

For the reporting period 1956 to 1968 6 volumes were published for 2 years each. From volume 7 (1969), one volume appeared per year (most recently 52, 2014, now online, electronically indexed from 1991 onwards). Since Otto Klapp's death, the bibliography has been edited by his daughter Astrid Klapp-Lehrmann.

Works

  • (Ed.) Bibliography of French literary studies , Frankfurt am Main 1960 ff.
    • 1, 1956-1958
    • 2, 1959-1960
    • 3, 1961-1962
    • 4, 1963-1964
    • 5, 1965-1966
    • 6, 1967-1968
    • 7, 1969 through 23, 1985

literature

  • Hans-Jörg Neuschäfer, obituary for Otto Klapp, in: Lendemains 46, 1987, p. 151; in: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Romanistenverbandes 1987/1, pp. 35–36
  • Julia Pieper, "Otto Klapp and the bibliography of French literary studies at the Saarbrücken University Library", in: 50 Years of the Saarland University Library , ed. by Christine Hohnschopp and Bernd Hagenau, St. Ingbert 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Klapp, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance scholar, librarian and bibliographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1986
Place of death Saarbrücken