Rita falcon

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Rita Falke (born September 24, 1919 in Hamburg ) is a German Romance philologist who was a university professor in the United States.

life and work

Rita Falke studied French and Italian in Hamburg from 1942. After the state examination in 1946, she was a librarian at the university library. She received her doctorate in 1955 on personal freedom and utopias and was an assistant at the Romance seminar in Göttingen from 1956 to 1962.

In 1964 she received an offer to go to the United States in Hamburg, and from 1966 to 1981 she was a full professor of Romance studies and comparative literature at Fayetteville ( University of Arkansas ). Then she returned to Germany and now lives in Lorup .

Other works

  • Attempt a bibliography of utopias, in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch 6, 1953/54, pp. 92-109
  • Ramon Llull's idea of ​​the state; in: Estudis romànics 5, 1955/56, pp. 77-93
  • 'Otra Roma en su imperio': the Comentarios reales des Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch 7, 1955–56, pp. 257–271
  • Utopia - logical construction and chimère. A change in terms, in: Germanisch-Romanische monthly 6, 1956, pp. 76–81
  • Eldorado: le meilleur des mondes possibles, in: Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 2, 1956, pp. 25–41
  • Biographical-literary background to Kafka's 'judgment', in: Germanisch-Romanische MONTHLY 41, 1960, pp. 164–180
  • (Ed. Together with Erika Höhnisch) Rudolf Geske, Góngora's warning speech under the sign of Hecate : An attempt to interpret verses 366 - 502 of the Soledad primera. With a foreword by Walter Pabst , Berlin 1964 (Biblioteca ibero-americana 5)
  • The 'Confessions' of Rousseau and their role model, in: Comparative Literature Studies 5, 1968, pp. 259–277

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personal data
SURNAME Falcon, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg