Rudolph Schevill

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Rudolph Schevill (born June 18, 1874 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † February 17, 1946 in Berkeley , California ) was an American Romanist and Hispanist of German descent.

life and work

Rudolph Schwill studied at Yale University (graduated in 1896) as well as in Paris and Madrid . In 1898 he received his doctorate from the University of Munich with the thesis August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Theater der Franzosen (Munich 1899). His US university career went as follows: Instructor for German and French at Bucknell University in Lewisburg , Pennsylvania , Instructor for German at Sheffield Scientific School , Yale (1900–1901), Instructor for French and Spanish, then Assistant Professor for Spanish at Yale University (1901-1910). During this time he changed the name from Schwill to Schevill. In 1910 he went as a professor of Spanish at the University of California at Berkeley, where the Department of Romance Languages was divided into several individual languages ​​in 1919 and he took over the Spanish Department . After a heart attack in 1939, he said goodbye in 1944.

Schevill was a member of the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona and the Real Academia de la Historia, as well as a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española . In 1918 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1943 he was president of the Modern Language Association .

Other works

  • (Ed.) D. Gaspar Núñez de Arce, El haz de leña , Boston 1903
  • (Ed.) Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, El niño de la bola , New York 1903, 1931
  • (Ed.) Juan Valera, El comendador Mendoza , New York 1905
  • Ovid and the renascence in Spain , Berkeley 1913, Hildesheim 1971
  • (Ed. With Adolfo Bonilla [1875–1926]) Obras completas de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , 18 vols., Madrid 1914–1941
  • A first reader in Spanish , Boston 1917
  • The dramatic art of Lope de Vega together with La dama boba , Berkeley 1918, New York 1964
  • Cervantes, New York 1919, 1966
  • (Ed.) Cervantes, Selection from his works , Boston 1928
  • (with Forrest Eugene Spencer) The Dramatic works of Luis Vélez de Guevara. Their plots, sources and bibliography , Berkeley 1937

literature

  • Karl E. Schevill, Bibliography of the publications of Rudolph Schevill, in: Hispanic Review 14, 1946, pp. 259-263
  • Hispanic Review 15.1, 1947 (Número extraordinario dedicado a la memoria de Rodolfo Schevill)
  • Rudolph Schevill, Recollections of a golden age , Pittsburgh, Pa. 1985 (autobiography)

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personal data
SURNAME Schevill, Rudolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schevill, Rudolf; Schevill, Rodolfo; Schwill, Rudolf; Schwill, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist and Hispanist of German descent
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1946
Place of death Berkeley , California