Roland Hagenbüchle

Roland Hagenbüchle (born October 13, 1932 in Frauenfeld ; † January 14, 2008 ) was a Swiss Americanist and cultural philosopher.

Study, teaching and research

Hagenbüchle first studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and completed a two-year internship in Basel, then linguistics , English and German at the University of Zurich . After studying in Cambridge (GB) and Nancy, he received his doctorate in Zurich in 1964 ; afterwards Hagenbüchle was a doctoral fellow at Yale University. In 1974 he completed his habilitation in Zurich.

After visiting lectureships in Bern , Göttingen and at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin , he was appointed to a professorship at the newly opened Bergische Universität Wuppertal in 1975. In 1980 Hagenbüchle received two calls to the University of Marburg and the Catholic University of Eichstätt . From 1980 to 1996, Hagenbüchle was a professor of American studies at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Roland Hagenbüchle was a renowned interpreter of the works of the American poet Emily Dickinson . After retiring in 1996, Hagenbüchle shifted his research interests to the broader area of cultural philosophy , especially interculturality , the problematic relationship between different cultures and the criticism of Western thought.

Awards

• 2004: Distinguished Service Award from the Emily Dickinson International Society
• 2008: Scholar in Amherst Award from the Emily Dickinson International Society

Publications (selection)

• Fall of Man and Freedom of Choice in Milton's “Paradise Lost”. An attempt at an interpretation (= Swiss Anglistic Works. Volume 59 [incorrectly referred to as Volume 58]). Francke, Bern 1967 (also: dissertation, University of Zurich, 1964).
• Precision and Indeterminacy in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. In: Emerson Society Quarterly. Vol. 20 (1974), H. 1, pp. 33-56.
• Emily Dickinson. Risk of self-encounter. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-923721-14-5 .
• ed. with Gudrun Grabher, Cristanne Miller: The Emily Dickinson Handbook. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 1998.
• Paul Geyer and Roland Hagenbüchel (eds.): The paradox. A challenge to western thought (= Stauffenburg Colloquium. Volume 21). Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-923721-78-1 .
• History and prehistory of modern subjectivity (PDF; 205 kB). In: Reto Luzius Fetz , Roland Hagenbüchle, Peter Schulz (eds.): History and prehistory of modern subjectivity. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin [et al.] 1998, ISBN 3-11-014938-9 .
• From multi-cultural to inter-cultural (PDF; 470 kB). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2264-5 .
• Culture in Transition or The Provocation of the Vulgar. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3166-0 .

literature

• Hans Hunfeld (Ed.): Why Science Today? Lecture series in honor of Roland Hagenbüchle. Narr, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-8233-5181-8 .
• Marietta Messmer, Josef Raab (Eds.): American vistas and beyond: A Festschrift for Roland Hagenbüchle. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2002, ISBN 3-88476-553-1 .

Web links

• Roland Hagenbüchle ( memento from June 20, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), Catholic University of Eichstätt
• Biography on the website of Roland Hagenbüchle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report of the award ceremony ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Roland Hagenbüchle's website, accessed on June 21, 2014. 
2. ↑ 2009 Scholar in Amherst Award Competition , Emily Dickinson International Society website, accessed June 21, 2014.