Werner Bahner

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Werner Bahner (2007)

Werner Bahner (born June 18, 1927 in Neuwiese im Erzgebirge , † July 14, 2019 in Leipzig ) was a German Romance studies and philologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Stollberg , he studied Romance languages ​​in Leipzig . In 1950 he laid the first state examination and attained a doctorate to Dr. phil. with the topic "Studies on the concept of the people in French literature (15th - 18th centuries)" . In 1955 his habilitation followed with the thesis "Theories about the origin of the Spanish language in the Siglo de Oro" . In the same year he became a member of the SED . On March 1, 1960 he was appointed full professor and appointed director of the Romance Institute at Leipzig University. In 1965 he was elected member of the German Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin , to which he moved in the same year. From 1965 to 1969 he was director of the Institute for Romance Languages ​​and Culture at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He then worked as deputy director or division manager at the Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy until 1977 and then until 1989 as Director of the Central Institute for Linguistics. Most recently, he headed a research group for the history of linguistics at the aforementioned central institute until the end of 1991.

In 1965 he was elected a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and in 1966 a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. From October 1980 to April 1991 he was President of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Linked to this was the function of Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR until June 30, 1990.

Honors

Major works (selection)

  • Contribution to language awareness in Spanish literature of the 16th and 17th centuries , Berlin: Rütten & Loening, 1956.
  • Alfred de Musset's work. A denial of the bourgeois way of life of his time , Halle: Verlag Sprache und Literatur, 1960.
  • Editor: The history of literature as a historical mission. Werner Krauss on his 60th birthday , Berlin: Rütten & Loening, 1961.
  • Translation from Romanian and extension: Iorgu Iordan, Introduction to the History and Methods of Romance Linguistics , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1962.
  • La lingüística española del Siglo de Oro. Aportaciones a la conciencia lingüística en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII , Madrid: Ciencia Nueva, 1966.
  • The consciousness of language and history in Romanian literature from 1780 to 1880 , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1967.
  • The lexical peculiarities of early Romance in Southeast Europe , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1970.
  • Editor: Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment. Epoch and periodization tasks , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1976.
  • Forms, ideas, processes in the literatures of the Romance peoples , 2 volumes, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1977.
  • Continuity and discontinuity in the development of Romance linguistics , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1983.
  • Comparative aspects in the consideration of languages ​​and literatures towards the end of the 18th century , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1984.
  • Editor: Language and Cultural Development in the Field of View of the German Late Enlightenment - The contribution by Johann Christoph Adelung , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1984.
  • Enlightenment as a European phenomenon , Leipzig: Reclam, 1985.
  • Editor: Linguistic German Studies. Their development and justification , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1985.
  • Editor: Frédéric II / Voltaire: Anti-Machiavel . Edition critique, Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1996.

literature

  • Gerda Haßler , Jürgen Storost (ed.): Continuity and innovation. Studies on the history of Romance language research from the 17th to the 19th century. Festschrift for Werner Bahner on his 70th birthday . Nodus Publications, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-89323-269-9 , (Pages 13 to 38 contain an overview of Bahner's publications up to that point).
  • Jürgen Storost: 300 years of Romance languages ​​and literatures at the Berlin Academy of Sciences . Part 1. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001, ISBN 3-631-38312-6 , ( Berlin contributions to the history of science 4), passim and pp. 566-581.
  • Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Bahner, Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the SAW Leipzig. In: SAW Leipzig. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Werner Bahner. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 17, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Members Werner Bahner, Prof. Dr. phil. . Website of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Retrieved July 29, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Bahner, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwiese
DATE OF DEATH 14th July 2019
Place of death Leipzig