Rudolf Besthorn

Rudolf Besthorn (born November 27, 1909 in Nordhausen ; † September 27, 1984 in Greifswald ) was a German Romanist .

Life

Besthorn received his doctorate in 1935 under Karl Voretzsch at the University of Halle with the thesis Origin and Character of the Older Italian Novella (Halle a. S. 1935). He was a lecturer from 1953 and completed his habilitation in 1964 at the University of Greifswald with the work Text-critical studies on the work of Holbach with special consideration of the early writings (published and T. Text-critical studies on the work of Holbach , Berlin 1969). From 1964 to 1975 he was Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Greifswald.

Grave (2014)

Besthorn's grave is in the cemetery of the Bugenhagenkirche (Greifswald-Wieck) .

Works

• (Ed.) The Roland song. Leipzig 1972, 1981, Birsfelden-Basel 1981, Augsburg 2003.
• (Ed.) Italian narrators from the novella antiche to Gaetano Cioni. Leipzig 1984; under the title Italian master stories from Boccaccio to Cioni. Cologne 2011.

literature

• Victor Klemperer : So I sit between all the chairs. Diaries 1950–1959. Walter Nowojski (Ed.), Berlin 1999, p. 881.
• Werner Krauss : Letters 1922–1976. Peter Jehle (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main 2002

Web links

• Literature about Rudolf Besthorn in the state bibliography MV
• Literature by and about Rudolf Besthorn in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Romance Studies. (No longer available online.) Philosophical Faculty of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University, March 25, 2013, archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; Retrieved April 26, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.