Walther Küchler

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Walther Küchler (born July 19, 1877 in Essen , † August 2, 1953 in Benediktbeuern ) was a German Romance studies and literary scholar .

life and work

Küchler received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1900 under Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld on Marie-Joseph Chénier's dramatic and lyrical poetry . He was then a German lecturer at the University of Nancy and from 1904 to 1905 at Cornell University . In 1906 he completed his habilitation in Gießen with Dietrich Behrens on Die Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. A contribution to the history of the French novella (Chemnitz 1906 and in: Journal for French Language and Literature 1906/07) and was appointed Professor of Romance Philology in Würzburg in 1911 as the successor to Karl Vossler , in 1922 as the successor to Karl von Ettmayer in Vienna and in 1927 as Successor to Bernhard Skull in Hamburg . The National Socialists put him into early retirement in 1933. Rehabilitated and retired in Hamburg in 1946, he taught as an honorary professor in Munich until 1950 . Küchler had been a corresponding member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences since 1927 . He was co-editor of the magazines Volkstum und Kultur der Romanen (1928–1933) and Die Neueren Sprachen (1915–1922). He published numerous translations from French and English. In 1946 the Lambert Schneider publishing house brought out its bilingual edition of Arthur Rimbaud's poems .

Other works

  • French Romanticism , Heidelberg 1908
  • Romain Rolland, Henri Barbusse, Fritz von Unruh , Würzburg 1919
  • Ernest Renan. The poet and the artist , Gotha 1921
  • Molière , Leipzig 1929
  • Arthur Rimbaud. Portrait of a poet , Heidelberg 1948

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personal data
SURNAME Küchler, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1953
Place of death Benediktbeuern