Robert Godel
Robert Godel (born August 7, 1902 in Geneva ; † June 3, 1984 ibid) was a Swiss classical philologist , Turkologist , Armenologist , linguist and Romance scholar .
life and work
Godel studied in Geneva (graduated in 1923) and was (married to an Armenian) French teacher at the Galatasaray High School in Istanbul from 1925 to 1931 , then a Latin teacher in Geneva, and from 1951 to 1958 also a lecturer in Latin at the university. In 1957 he received his doctorate there with the thesis Les sources manuscrites du Cours de linguistique générale de F. de Saussure (Geneva, Droz, 1957) and was full professor at the University of Geneva from 1958 to 1971. Godel initiated a critical view of the text of the Cours by Saussure, which was then re-edited by Rudolf Engler .
Other works
- Grammaire turque , Geneva, Université, 1945.
- (Ed.) A Geneva school reader in linguistics , Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1969.
- Studi saussuriani per Robert Godel , ed. by René Amacker, Tullio De Mauro and Luis Jorge Prieto , Bologna, Mulino, 1974.
- An introduction to the study of classical Armenian , Wiesbaden, Reichert, 1975.
- Linguistique arménienne. Etudes diachroniques , Paris, Samuel, 1982.
literature
- Martine Piguet: Godel, Robert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Mélanges de linguistique offerts à Robert Godel, in: Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 31, 1977.
- Cahier dédié au souvenir de Robert Godel, ancien président de la Société genevoise de linguistique, in: Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 38, 1984.
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Godel in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Biographical note from the University of Geneva, French
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Godel, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss classical philologist, Turkologist, Armenologist, linguist and Romance philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd June 1984 |
| Place of death | Geneva |