Reto R. Bezzola
Reto Raduolf Bezzola (born September 13, 1898 in Celerina / Schlarigna ; † January 7, 1983 in Samedan ) was a Swiss Romance and Medievalist .
Life
Bezzola, whose mother tongue was the Rhaeto-Romanic idiom Puter , received his doctorate in Zurich in 1922 with Contributo alla storia dei gallicismi italiani nei primi secoli (750–1300). Saggio storico-linguistico (Zurich 1924). He completed his habilitation there in 1929 on Spirito e forma nei canti di Giacomo Leopardi (Bologna 1930). From 1938 he was associate professor, from 1945 to 1968 full professor for French, Italian and Romansh literature at the University of Zurich . He wrote a German-Rhaeto-Romanic dictionary for the Ladin idioms, as well as an extensive history of Rhaeto-Romanic literature.
Other works
- Abbozzo di una storia dei gallicismi italiani nei primi secoli (750–1300). Saggio storico-linguistico , Heidelberg 1925
- German-Romance dictionary: Ladin , ed. from the Lia Rumantscha = Dicziunari tudais-ch-rumantsch-ladin , publichà da la Lia Rumantscha, Chur 1944, 2nd edition 1976, 3rd edition with Rudolf O. Tönjachen, 1982
- Les origines et la formation de la littérature courtoise en Occident (500–1200) , 3 vols., Paris 1944, 1960, 1963
- Le sens de l'aventure et de l'amour , Paris 1947
- Love and adventure in the courtly novel , Hamburg 1961
- Litteratura dals Rumauntschs e Ladins , Cuira 1979
literature
- Orbis mediaevalis. Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Reto Raduolf Bezzola à l'occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire , éd. par Georges Güntert, Marc-René Jung, Kurt Ringger, Berne 1978 [Festschrift] (with list of publications)
- Kurt Ringger in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung September 13, 1978
- Marc-René Jung in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung 15./16. January 1983
Web links
- Publications by and about Reto R. Bezzola in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Reto R. Bezzola in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lucia Walther: Bezzola, Reto Raduolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Estate directory (PDF file; 147 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bezzola, Reto R. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bezzola, Reto Raduolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Romance Studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Celerina / Schlarigna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1983 |
| Place of death | Samedan |