Rudolf Engler

Rudolf Engler (born October 25, 1930 in Teufen AR ; † September 5, 2003 ) was a Swiss Romance studies and linguist.

life and work

Engler graduated from St. Gallen in 1949 . He studied Italian and French at the University of Bern from 1949 to 1958 and received his doctorate from Siegfried Heinimann in 1963 with the thesis Théorie et critique d'un principe saussurien. L ' arbitraire du signe (in: Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 19, 1962, pp. 5-66). As assistant to Heinimann, he completed his habilitation in 1971 with the text Studies on Lionardo Salviatis Avvertimenti della lingua sopra'l Decamerone 1584/86 and was associate professor from 1973 to 1982, and from 1982 to 1995 full professor for Romance philology at the University of Bern (from 1987 to 1988 also Dean). In the successor to Robert Godel , Engler put the study of the history of structural linguistics on a new basis with his critical edition of the Cours von Saussure .

Works

• (Ed.) Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale, critical edition. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1967–1974, 1989–1990.
• Lexique de la terminologie saussurienne, Spectrum, Utrecht 1968.
• Saussure and Romance Studies, Institute for Linguistics, Bern 1976.
• Bibliography sausurienne, in: Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure
  • 30, 1976, pp. 99-138
  • 31, 1977, pp. 279-306
  • 33, 1979, pp. 80-145
  • 40, 1986, pp. 131-200
  • 43, 1989, pp. 149-275
• (Ed. With Ricarda Liver) Siegfried Heinimann, Romance literary and technical languages ​​in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Contributions to the early history of Provencal, French, Italian and Rhaeto-Romanic, Reichert, Wiesbaden 1987.
• (Ed. With René Amacker) Présence de Saussure. Actes du colloque international de Genève (21-23 March 1988), Droz, Geneva 1990.
• (Ed. With Simon Bouquet) Ferdinand de Saussure, Ecrits de linguistique générale, Gallimard, Paris 2002.
  • Spanish: Gedisa, Barcelona 2004.
  • Portuguese: São Paulo 2004.
  • Polish: Warsaw 2004.
  • Serbian: Sremski Karlovci 2004.

literature

• Language theory and theory of linguistics. History and Perspectives. Festschrift for Rudolf Engler on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Edited by Ricarda Liver. Narr, Tübingen 1990 (with list of publications).
• Linguisten-Handbuch , pp. 204–205 (with picture).
• For Rudolf Engler, Saussure scholar extraordinaire on the occasion of his 70th birthday on October 25, 2000. In: Historiographia linguistica 27, 2/3, pp. 198-460.
• Christian Puech: Necrology: Rudolf Engler. In: Histoire Épistémologie Langage 25, 2, 2003, pp. 3-4 (/ web / revues / home / prescript / article / hel_0750-8069_2003_num_25_2_2204).

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Engler in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)