Walter Pabst

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Walter Pabst (born March 9, 1907 in Darmstadt , † November 18, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German Romance studies and literary scholar .

life and work

Pabst's grave in the Dahlem cemetery in Berlin

Pabst studied in Frankfurt with Matthias Friedwagner and his successor Erhard Lommatzsch , even more with the private lecturers Helmut Hatzfeld and Hellmuth Petriconi , and received his doctorate in 1929 with a thesis on Góngora's creation in his poems "Polifemo" and "Soledades" (Revue Hispanique 80, 1930) . He then worked as a journalist in Berlin, Rome and Florence (under the pseudonyms Fedor Wälderlin and Luis Argote). In 1950 he completed his habilitation in Hamburg with Hellmuth Petriconi on novel theory and novel poetry (Hamburg 1953).

In 1955 he was appointed to an extraordinary professorship for Romance Philology in Bonn , and in 1958 to succeed Fritz Neubert to a full professorship at the Free University of Berlin , where he was also dean in 1963. He declined calls to Hamburg, Bonn and Munich. In 1972 he retired.

From 1953 onwards, Pabst was co-editor of the Romance Yearbook for almost 40 years . He had been a full member of the Berlin Scientific Society since 1974 .

Walter Pabst died in Berlin in 1992 at the age of 85. His grave is in the Dahlem cemetery (field 009-5).

Honors

Other works

  • Venus and the misunderstood Dido , Hamburg 1955
  • Luis de Góngora in the Mirror of German Poetry and Criticism , Heidelberg 1967
  • (Ed.) The modern French novel , Berlin 1968
  • (Ed.) The modern French drama , Berlin 1971
  • (Ed.) The modern French poetry , Berlin 1976
  • Topics and texts. Studies in Romance and Comparative Literature . With a foreword by Helmut Hatzfeld on his 70th birthday, ed. by Eberhard Leube and Ludwig Schrader, Berlin 1977
  • French poetry of the 20th century , Berlin 1983

literature

  • Interpretation and comparison. Festschrift for Walter Pabst , ed. by Eberhard Leube and Ludwig Schrader, Berlin 1972
  • From the modern since Chrétien. Homage to Walter Pabst , ed. by Gerhard Goebel, in: Lendemains 45, 1987
  • Romance poetry. Poetry and Poetics. In honor of Walter Pabst , ed. by Titus Heydenreich , Eberhard Leube and Ludwig Schrader, Tübingen 1993
  • Exhibition catalog: Walter Pabst, Romanist (publications from the university library of the FU Berlin; 5), Berlin 2005 (with texts by Titus Heydenreich, Ludwig Schrader, Klaus W. Hempfer and Doris Fouquet-Plümacher)
  • Walter Pabst on his 100th birthday , ed. by Franz-Josef Albersmeier and Titus Heydenreich, Berlin 2007 (exhibition volume with contributions by contemporary witnesses and a collection of all obituaries)
  • Titus Heydenreich:  Pabst, Hermann August Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 741 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Walter Pabst  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 572.
personal data
SURNAME Pabst, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1992
Place of death Berlin