Reinhard Kiesler

Reinhard Kiesler (born January 18, 1960 in Würzburg ; † September 9, 2015 ibid) was a German Romanist , Frenchist , Italianist , Hispanist and Lusitanist .

life and work

Kiesler studied Romance languages, English and Islamic studies from 1980 to 1987 at the universities of Würzburg, Salamanca , Lisbon and Hull (England). He received his doctorate from Theodor Berchem at the University of Würzburg in 1987 with the thesis Linguistic means of emphasis in modern Portuguese colloquial language (Heidelberg, Winter, 1989), there he qualified as a professor in 2000 with the work On Syntax of Colloquial Language. Comparative studies on French, Italian and Spanish (Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2013) and was an adjunct professor at the University of Würzburg from 2006. He represented professorships and chairs in Münster (2001–2002, 2009), Gießen (2006), Jena (2006–2007) and Würzburg (2012–2015).

Works

• Linguistic means of emphasis in modern Portuguese colloquial language , Winter, Heidelberg 1989
• Small comparative dictionary of Arabicisms in Ibero-Romanic and Italian , Francke, Tübingen 1994 (404 pages)
• (Ed. With Martine Guille) Romania una et diversa. Philological studies for Theodor Berchem on his 65th birthday , 2 volumes, Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2000
• Introduction to the problem of Vulgar Latin , Niemeyer, Tübingen 2006 (Romance workbooks 48)
• On the syntax of colloquial language. Comparative studies on French, Italian and Spanish , WBG, Darmstadt 2013
• Speech systems technology. Introduction to sentence analysis for Romanists , Winter, Heidelberg 2015

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Kiesler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Reinhard Kiesler in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Personnel page of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
• Obituary by Robert Hesselbach on romanistik.de