Wilhelm Giese (Romanist)
Wilhelm Giese (born February 20, 1895 in Metz ; † 1990 in Hamburg ) was a German Romance and Hispanic scholar.
Life
Giese graduated from high school in Kaiserslautern, began studying in Munich, did military service from 1915 and returned from French captivity in 1920. From 1923 he was librarian at the Ibero-American Institute in Hamburg. He did his doctorate in 1924 in Hamburg with Bernhard appointed on weapons based on Spanish literature of the 12th and 13th centuries . In 1930 he completed his habilitation in Hamburg on folklore from the Dauphiné Alps (Hamburg 1932, French: Mots et choses en Haut-Dauphiné , Grenoble 1990). In 1935 he took a chair in Halle as Wilhelm Giese became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 . From 1939 to 1960 he was an adjunct professor in Hamburg.
Other works
- Northeast Cadiz. A cultural and scientific contribution to the exploration of Andalusia, Halle aS 1937 (Spanish: Sierra y campiña de Cádiz, Cádiz 1996)
- History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature, Bonn 1949
- Los pueblos románicos y su cultura popular. Guía etnográfico-folklórica, Bogotá 1962
- (Ed.) On the current situation of the Aromanians in the Balkans, Munich-Solln 1965
- The culture of Spain, Portugal and Iberoamerica, Frankfurt 1973 (previously in: The cultures of southern Romania, Konstanz 1964)
literature
- Festschrift Wilhelm Giese. Contributions to Romance Studies and General Linguistics , ed. and edited by Harald Haarmann and Michael Studemund, Hamburg 1972
- Wilhelm Giese: How it was back then ... An oral doctoral examination in 1923 , in: Gestaltung - Umgestaltung. Contributions to the history of Romance literatures. Festschrift for Margot Kruse, ed. by Bernhard König and Jutta Lietz in connection with Rudolf Harneit and Ulrich Schulz-Buschhaus, Tübingen 1990, pp. 49–52
- Erich Kalwa: The Portuguese and Brazilian Studies in Germany (1900-1945). A contribution to the history of institutions , Frankfurt 2004, pp. 52–71
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Giese in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Entry on Wilhelm Giese in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : Also a national science? German Romance Studies under National Socialism. In: Romance journal for the history of literature. 22, 1998, p. 262 ( online ; PDF; 10.7 MB).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giese, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist and Hispanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Metz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1990 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |