Rainer Hess (Romanist)
Rainer Hess (born April 15, 1936 in Karlsruhe , † March 8, 2004 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Romance philologist , Lusitanist and literary scholar.
life and work
Hess received his doctorate in 1961 under Hugo Friedrich in Freiburg on the Romanesque sacred drama as a profane and religious comedy. 15th and 16th centuries (Munich 1965, Spanish: Madrid 1976). He was then a DAAD lecturer, from 1962 to 1965 at the University of Lisbon and from 1965 at the Sorbonne in Paris. He completed his habilitation in 1969 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as assistant to Gustav Siebenmann on The Beginnings of Modern Poetry in Portugal: 1865-1890 (Munich 1978, Portuguese: Lisboa 1999).
In 1970 he was appointed to a chair for Romance Philology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . He turned down a call to Osnabrück (1974). From 1993 to 1997, Hess was the first President of the German Lusitanist Association (DLV).
Other works
- International Repertory of Lusitan Studies and Brazilian Studies , Freiburg 1978
- (Together with Mireille Frauenrath, Gustav Siebenmann, [later] Tilbert Stegmann) Literary Studies Dictionary for Romanists , Frankfurt 1971, 4th edition Tübingen 2003 (Spanish: Madrid 1995)
- (Ed.) Portuguese Novels of the Present: Interpretations , Frankfurt 1992
- (Ed.) Portuguese Novels of the Present: New Interpretations , Frankfurt 1993
Web links
- Literature by and about Rainer Hess in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.romanistik.uni-freiburg.de/geschichte/Hess.html (with picture)
- http://www.romanistik.uni-freiburg.de/hess/curricul.htm
- http://www.romanistik.uni-freiburg.de/hess/forschg.htm
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SURNAME | Hess, Rainer |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist, Lusitanist and literary scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1936 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 2004 |
Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |