Wido Hempel
Wido Hempel (born April 30, 1930 in Bonn ; † November 7, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German Romance philologist who mainly taught at the universities of Hamburg and Tübingen.
Life
Hempel studied Romance Studies at the University of Cologne and received his doctorate in 1959 on Giovanni Verga . Only a few years later he submitted his habilitation thesis on the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega . This was followed by a call to the University of Hamburg , which was followed in 1975 by a move to the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen as the successor to Kurt Wais , where he researched and taught until his retirement in 1990. Further works are treatises on Philip II and the Escorial as well as on Alessandro Manzoni .
Memberships
In 1981 he took over the publication of the specialist journal Romanische Forschungen and the series Analecta Romanica as the successor to Fritz Schalk . In Hamburg he was one of the editors of the Romance Yearbook . The Real Academia Española , the highest authority on Spanish language and literature, chose him as one of the few foreigners as a corresponding member. In Germany, Wido Hempel had been a full member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature since 1987 , where he chaired the Commission for Romance Philology.
Personal
Hempel was married and had three children. He was a distant relative of the sculptor Ernst von Bandel , the builder of the Hermann monument .
Web links
- Literature by and about Wido Hempel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hempel, Wido |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romance studies and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 2006 |
| Place of death | Berlin |