Sargut Şölçün
Sargut Şölçün (born November 28, 1947 in Ankara ; † April 29, 2012 in Essen ) was a German - Turkish literary scholar .
Life
Şölçün studied German , general linguistics , Roman and Greek literature , education and political science in Ankara and Munich .
In 1980 the scientist received his doctorate on the subject of the image of the Turkish "guest worker" in contemporary German literature .
Şölçün, who had been teaching at Ankara University from 1974, left Turkey in 1984 after initially seeing no future career at Turkish universities because of the signing of a "petition by intellectuals" against human rights violations . This was followed by teaching assignments at the universities of Berlin , Erlangen / Nuremberg , where he worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Education from 1991 and finally from 1999 in Essen . Şölçün published specialist books on intercultural literature and German essay writing . Şölçün also wrote the section on the literature of the Turkish minority in the handbook Intercultural Literature in Germany published by Carmine Gino Chiellino in 2000 .
In addition, Sargut Sölçün was co-founder and chairman of the Inter-Forum, a Nuremberg initiative that promotes intellectual and artistic exchange on an international level.
See also
Web link
- Literature by and about Sargut Şölçün in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Şölçün, Sargut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Turkish literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ankara |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 2012 |
| Place of death | eat |