Ricarda Liver

Ricarda Liver (born December 10, 1941 in Chur ) is a Swiss Romance scholar .

Life

Ricarda Liver is the daughter of the Graubünden lawyer Peter Liver, who taught as a professor at the University of Bern . She attended schools in Bern and studied Romance, Latin and Italian philology and the Romansh language at the university there . She was an assistant at the chair for Latin studies and completed her habilitation with an examination of the Latin prayer language.

From 1972 to 1975 she was an editor at the Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun . In 1982 she succeeded Siegfried Heinimann as full professor at the Romance Department of the University of Bern, where she taught until her retirement in 2002. Since 1974 she has directed the proverbial proverb project Thesaurus proverbiorum medii aevi, which was based on Samuel Singer's collection of examples . Liver published linguistic studies and textbooks on Romansh.

Works (selection)

• The aftermath of the ancient sacred language in Christian prayer of the Latin and Italian Middle Ages. Bern 1979.
• Manuel pratique de romanche. Sursilvan-Vallader. Précis de grammaire suivi d'un choix de textes. Chur 1982 (2nd edition 1991).
• Dante translations into Romansh. In: Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch, 58, 1983, pp. 119–153.
• Romansh. An introduction to the Romansh language of the Grisons. Tübingen 1999 (2nd edition 2010).
• Bible translations in the early days of the Romansh written language. In: Files of the 5th Rhaeto-Romanic Colloquium Lavin 2011, Bern 2013, pp. 41–52.
• The vocabulary of the Graubünden Romance language. Elements of a Rhaeto-Romanic lexicology. Tübingen 2012.
• Aspects of the saying. To a new collection of Swiss German proverbs. In: Proverbium 1, 1984, pp. 93-117.
• Ecrire au Moyen Âge. A propos d'une nouvelle interpretation de Vindovinello veronese. In: Mélanges Michel Burger, 1994, pp. 203-214.
• Middle Latin and vernacular in proverb. For the publication of the first volume of the "Thesaurus proverbiorum medii aevi" (TPMA) founded by Samuel Singer. In: Peter Stotz : Non recedet memoria eius. Contributions to the Latin philology of the Middle Ages in memory of Jakob Werner (1891–1944). Bern Berlin 1995 , Pp. 187-198.
• Dante's journey through hell, purgatory and heaven. In: Hubert Herkommer , Rainer Schwinger: Angels, Devils and Demons. Insights into the spirit world of the Middle Ages. Basel 2006, pp. 119–130.

literature

• Peter Wunderli , Iwar Werlen and Matthias Grünert (eds.): Italica - Raetica - Gallica. Studia linguarum litterarum artiumque in honorem Ricarda Liver. Tübingen and Basel 2001.