Siegfried Heinimann

Siegfried Heinimann (born April 13, 1917 in Olten ; † June 15, 1996 in Bern ) was a Swiss Romance philologist .

life and work

Heinimann studied with Karl Jaberg in Bern, and also in Geneva, Florence, Rome and Paris. From 1941 to 1946 he was a high school teacher in Biel . He received his doctorate in Bern in 1944 on the borrowing of words and meanings by the Italian daily press during the First World War , 1914-1919 (Bern 1946) and was Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Bern from 1946 to 1982 (full professor from 1950, dean from 1949-1950) . Ricarda Liver was his successor at the Bernese Romance Seminar.

Heinimann worked from 1964 on the Thesaurus proverbiorum medii aevi founded by Samuel Singer . Lexicon of proverbs of the Romano-Germanic Middle Ages and, as President of the Singer Board of Trustees of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, from 1965 to 1987 played a major role in the posthumous creation of the 14-volume edition (Berlin 1995–2002).

Other works

• The abstract in the French literary language of the Middle Ages , Bern 1963

Editing:

• Karl Jaberg: Linguistic research and experiences . New series, Bern 1965
• Charles Bally: Linguistique générale et linguistique française . 4th edition, Bern 1965
• Oratio dominica Romanice. The Lord's Prayer in the Romance languages ​​from the beginning up to the 16th century with the Greek and Latin originals . Tübingen 1988

literature

• Rudolf Engler, Ricarda Liver (Ed.): Romance literary and technical languages ​​in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Contributions to the early history of Provencal, French, Italian and Romansh . Wiesbaden 1987 (with list of publications).
• Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Linguist Handbook . Tübingen 1994 sv
• Ricarda Liver: Heinimann, Siegfried. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Ricarda Liver, in: Vox Romanica 55, 1996, pp. 383-387.

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegfried Heinimann in the catalog of the German National Library