Rudolf Palgen

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Rudolf Palgen, bust by Rodolfo Zilli

Rudolf Palgen (born April 23, 1895 in Echternach ; † November 17, 1975 in Graz ) was a Luxembourgish Romanist , Italianist, Germanist and Dante researcher.

life and work

Palgen studied in Munich, Heidelberg and Marburg. He received his doctorate in Marburg in 1917 with the Germanistic work Über Zacharias Werner's "Sons of the Valley". A contribution to the history of Romanticism (Marburg 1918, reprint New York 1968). From 1919 French editor in Breslau (with Carl Appel and Hermann Breuer), he turned more to Romance studies, completed his habilitation in 1936 and was appointed to the Hugo Schuchardt chair in Graz in 1943 , where he succeeded Hans Jeschke until his retirement in 1966 taught. In his hometown Echternach there is a bronze bust of Palgen by the artist Rodolfo Zilli . Palgen was the brother of the linguist Helene Palgen (1902-1993).

Other works (selection)

  • The Philosopher's Stone. Source studies on Parzival , Breslau 1922
  • Judith: a Central German poem from the 13th century. Edited for the first time from the Stuttgart manuscript. , Hall as 1924
  • (under the name Rodolphe Palgen) Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, auteur dramatique. Etude critique , Paris 1925
  • Henri Bergson's worldview , Breslau 1929
  • Le Cimetière marin by Paul Valéry. Attempt at an interpretation , Breslau 1931
  • The medieval face of the Divine Comedy (source studies on Inferno and Purgatorio) , Heidelberg 1935
  • Dante's belief in the stars. Contributions to the declaration of Paradiso , Heidelberg 1940
  • History of Italian Literature , Bonn 1949
  • Dante and Avicenna. In: Anzeiger der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-histor. Class. Volume 88 (12), 1951, pp. 159-172.
  • Becoming and essence of the comedy Dante , Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1955
  • L'origine del Purgatorio , Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1967
  • Dante's Lucifer. Basics of a genesis of the comedy Dantes , Munich 1969
  • Medieval eschatology in Dante's comedy. Motifs and chains of motifs from medieval sagas. The Timaeus motifs in the Divine Comedy, published for the 80th birthday of the author , Graz 1975

literature

  • Studies on Dante and on other subjects of Romance literatures. Festschrift for Rudolf Palgen on his 75th birthday , ed. by Klaus Lichem and Hans Joachim Simon, Graz 1971

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