Uwe Böker

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Uwe Böker (born September 27, 1940 in Langelsheim ; † February 6, 2020 ) was a German philologist and English student .

Life

From 1962, Böker studied English, German, pedagogy and philosophy at the University of Göttingen and the University of Regensburg . He then did his doctorate in 1968 at the University of Regensburg with a thesis on Geoffrey Chaucer and was employed as an assistant in Regensburg until 1978. In 1979 he completed his habilitation in English Philology and in 1986 became Professor of English Philology in Regensburg.

In 1993 Böker accepted a position as professor of English and English literature at the Technical University of Dresden , where he taught until his retirement in 2006.

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Böker's research areas included the relationship between crime and literature, the history of the publishing house and the history of literary genres. Among other things, he published the following works:

  • 1968: Studies on Chaucer's Franklin's Tale (Diss.)
  • 1971: History of Old English Literature (with Karl Heinz Göller )
  • 1982: Loyal disloyalty: political elements in Graham Greene's work (also habilitation, 1979)
  • 1985: The classics of English literature: from Geoffrey Chaucer to Samuel Beckett (with Horst Breuer and Rolf Breuer )
  • 1989: The living Middle Ages: Studies in medieval English literature and its tradition. A Festschrift for Karl Heinz Göller (as editor)
  • 1996: Crime and Legal Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries (as editor)
  • 2000: Introduction to English and American Studies (as editor and co-author)
  • 2001: Processes of institutionalization: case studies in law, prison and censorship
  • 2002: Sites of discourse-public and private spheres-legal culture (as editor)
  • 2002: The importance of reinventing Oscar : versions of Wilde during the last 100 years (as editor)
  • 2004: Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and its Impact Through the Ages. Festschrift for Karl Heinz Göller on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday (as editor)
  • 2006: John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" 1728–2004: Adaptions and Re-writings

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  1. ↑ Obituary notice of Uwe Böker. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Süddeutscher Verlag , February 20, 2020, accessed on February 20, 2020 .