Wilhelm Füger
Wilhelm Friedrich Füger (born February 7, 1936 in Bodenbach ; † August 19, 2017 ) was a German English scholar and literary scholar .
Life
Wilhelm Füger studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1970 he completed his habilitation in Munich with a work on English prose poetry . In 1973 he was promoted to full professor of English literature at the Free University of Berlin called .
He gained an international reputation through his research on narrative theory and James Joyce . In addition, he was one of the first literary scholars to use the possibilities of electronic data processing for their research.
Works (selection)
- The emergence of the historical novel from the fictional biography in France and England. Dissertation. Munich 1963.
- as editor: James Joyce's "Portrait". The portrait of young people in the light of recent German research. Munich 1972, ISBN 978-3-442-80015-5 .
- The English prose poem. Basics - prehistory - main phases. Winter, Heidelberg 1973, ISBN 3-533-02230-7 .
- as editor: English prose lyrics. an anthology. Heidelberg 1976, ISBN 978-3-533-02308-1 .
- as arranger: Concordance to James Joyce's Dubliners. Hildesheim, New York 1980, ISBN 978-3-487-06950-0 .
- James Joyce. Epoch - work - effect. Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-38114-6 .
- as editor: Critical Legacy. Documentation on James Joyce's reception in the German-speaking area during the author's lifetime. Amsterdam, Atlanta 2000, ISBN 90-420-0769-9
- as editor: Jonathan Swift's Autonekrolog - The Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, DSPD Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8300-2660-0 .
literature
- Jörg Helbig (Ed.): Narration and narrative theory in the 20th century. Festschrift for Wilhelm Füger. English Research, Volume 294. Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 978-3-8253-1156-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Füger: The English prose poem. Basics - prehistory - main phases. Winter, Heidelberg 1973, p. 9.
- ^ Wilhelm Füger. Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar online, accessed on October 3, 2017 (restricted access).
- ^ Death of Prof. em. Wilhelm Füger. (No longer available online.) Freie Universität Berlin, September 20, 2017, archived from the original on September 25, 2017 ; accessed on October 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Füger, Wilhelm |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Füger, Wilhelm Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German English and literary scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1936 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bodenbach |
DATE OF DEATH | 19th August 2017 |