Richard Baum (Romanist)

Richard Baum (* 1937 in Trachenberg ) is a German Romance scholar , Medievalist and linguist.

Life

Baum received his doctorate in 1966 at the Sorbonne with Félix Lecoy with the Thèse de 3e cycle Recherches sur le lai en France au moyen âge (published by T. Recherches sur les œuvres attribuées à Marie de France , Heidelberg 1968). He became Hans Helmut Christmann's assistant at the University of Saarland and qualified as a professor in 1974 with the script Dependenzgrammatik. Tesnière's model of language description from a scientific-historical and critical point of view (Tübingen 1976). He was first professor for Romance Philology at the University of Bonn , from 1977 (as successor to Hans-Wilhelm Klein ) full professor at RWTH Aachen University (until his retirement).

Baum is the editor of the Romanica et Comparatistica series. Linguistic and literary studies (Tübingen 1983 ff; with Willi Hirdt) and treatises on language and literature (Bonn 1986 ff).

Works (selection)

• (Ed.) Wolfgang Rothe , Phonologie des Französischen. Introduction to the synchrony and diachrony of the French phoneme system, 2nd revised and amended edition, Berlin 1978
• (Ed. With Franz Josef Hausmann and Irene Monreal-Wickert) Language in teaching and research. Focus on Romance studies, Tübingen 1979
• (Ed. With Willi Hirdt) Dante Alighieri 1985. In memoriam Hermann Gmelin, Tübingen 1985
• High language, literary language, written language. Materials on the characteristics of cultural languages, Darmstadt 1987 (Spanish Barcelona 1989)
• (Ed.) Language culture in France. Texts from the sphere of activity of the Académie française, Bonn 1989
• (Ed. With Jörn Albrecht ) Technical language and terminology in past and present, Tübingen 1992
• (Cooperation) Romance Studies, a Bonn invention, ed. by Willi Hirdt, 2 volumes, Bonn 1993
• (Ed. With Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft ) Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and modern philologies, Tübingen 1994
• (Ed. With Béatrice Dumiche and Jean-Louis Haquette) Lectures françaises et allemandes du XVIIIe siècle = German-French interpretations of the 18th century. Actes du colloque interdisciplinaire tenu à l'Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (Reims, octobre 1997), Bonn 2000
• (Ed. With Béatrice Dumiche and Gilles Rouet) Europe of the regions. Euregio Meuse-Rhine = L'Europe des régions. Champagne-Ardenne region. Files from the Interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Universities of Aachen and Reims (Aachen, December 1997), Bonn 2002
• (Contribution) Old French dictionary. 11th vol., UZ. Adolf Tobler's posthumous materials edited and edited. by Erhard Lommatzsch ; continued by Hans Helmut Christmann , completed by Richard Baum and Willi Hirdt; with the participation of Brigitte Frey and Franz Lebsanft, Stuttgart 2002
• (Ed. With António Dinis) Lusophonie in past and present. Festschrift for Helmut Siepmann on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Bonn 2003
• (Ed. With Anne Neuschäfer) L 'Italia si presenta, Italy introduces itself. Regional and cultural aspects of contemporary Italy, Bonn 2003
• Old French dictionary. 12th volume, complete list of literature and history of the dictionary. 93rd and 94th delivery, Wiesbaden 2018

literature

• Art and communication. Reflections on the medium of language in Romania. Festschrift for Richard Baum's 60th birthday, ed. by Maria Lieber and Willi Hirdt, Tübingen 1997
• Linguistic culture and cultural languages. Festschrift for Richard Baum for his 65th birthday, ed. by Georg Fehrmann and Helmut Siepmann, Bonn 2002

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Baum in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Richard Baum in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)