Victor Oelschläger
Victor Oelschläger (born October 18, 1909 in Kitchener (Ontario) , † 1993 ) was an American Romanist , Hispanic and Medievalist .
life and work
Victor Rudolph Bernhardt Oelschläger was born in Kitchener (Ontario) , the center of Canadians of German origin. He went to school and studied in Beloit (Wisconsin) , also at the University of Wisconsin in Madison . There he received his doctorate in 1937 under Antonio García Solalinde with the thesis A preliminary Spanish word-list of first appearances up to Berceo (published ud T. A medieval Spanish word-list. A preliminary dated vocabulary of first appearances up to Berceo , Madison 1940, Ann Arbor 1981).
Oelschläger became Assistant Professor in Madison in 1942, made military service in the Navy from 1943 to 1946 and was then Associate Professor at Newcomb College, Tulane University in New Orleans until 1951 . After a brief stint at the University of Southern California , he was full professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee from 1953 to 1974 .
Oelschläger was President of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) in 1961. A professorship is named after him at Florida State University .
Other works
- (Ed.) Poema del Cid in Verse and Prose . Academic Edition with Introduction, Vocabularies, Concordance, Etymologies, and Textual Commentary. Based on the Critical Edition by Ramón Menéndez Pidal and on the Modern Spanish Prose Translation by Alfonso Reyes. New Orleans: Department of Spanish, Newcomb College, Tulane University 1948
- (Ed. With Antonio García Solalinde and Lloyd August Kasten ) Alfonso el Sabio, General estoria. Segunda parte , 2 vols., Madrid 1957–1961
literature
- Oelschläger commemorative publication. Florida State University studies presented to Victor RB Oelschläger in honor of his retirement , ed. by David High Darst, Chapel Hill 1976 (Estudios de Hispanófila 36)
Web links
- Literature by and about Victor Oelschläger in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Literature by and about Victor Oelschläger in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Daniel Eisenberg: Victor Rudolph Bernhardt Oelschläger (with list of publications)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oelschläger, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oelschläger, Victor Rudolph Bernhardt; Oelschläger, Victor R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romanist , Hispanic and Medievalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kitchener, Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1993 |