Rainer Hess (Romanist)

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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

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personal data
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