Peter M. Already

Peter Martin Schon (born November 10, 1912 in Kastel-Staadt , † December 3, 1985 in Stolberg (Rhineland) ) was a German Romanist .

Life

Already studied Romance and German in Frankfurt, Munich, Bordeaux and Cologne. He received his doctorate in 1942 under Fritz Schalk in Cologne with preliminary forms of the essay in antiquity and humanism. A contribution to the genesis of the essays by Montaigne (rewritten from memory after the loss of the manuscript during the war and published in Wiesbaden in 1954). Already in 1958 he completed his habilitation in Mainz with Edmund Schramm with studies on the style of early French prose (Robert de Clari, Geoffroy de Villehardouin, Henri de Valenciennes) (Frankfurt a. M. 1960) and became scientific advisor and professor in 1962. In 1966 he was appointed full professor at RWTH Aachen University, where he set up the Institute for Romance Philology. He retired in 1982, but taught until 1985. He was Officier des Palmes Académiques (1971).

Works

• (Translation from French) The French spirit: the masters of the essay from Montaigne to Giraudoux / ed. by Gustav R. Hocke , Leipzig 1938
• (Translation from French) Paul Valéry : Fonction et mystère de l'Académie française / Office and secret of the Académie française , Jena / Leipzig 1948
• (Edited together with Charles Bruneau) Studia Romanica. Commemorative Eugen Lerch , Stuttgart 1955
• The literary portrait in the French Middle Ages, in: Archive for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures 117, 1965, pp. 241–263

literature

• Studia neolatina: Festschrift for Peter M. Already on his 65th birthday , ed. by Johannes Thomas , Aachen 1978
• Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar 1983 sv

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter M. Already in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)