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Wolf-Dieter Stempel (born July 7, 1929 in Landau in the Palatinate ) is a German Romance studies and linguist.

life and work

From 1940 to 1949, Stempel attended the Altsprachliches Gymnasium Landau . He studied Romance Philology and Latin at the Universities of Marburg (1949–1951), Aix-en-Provence (1951), Sorbonne (1951–1952) and Heidelberg (1952–1954). There he received his doctorate in 1954 with the dissertation The Romanesque fruit tree designations. A morphological study. With 4 maps (not in print). He went to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with his teacher Harri Meier and was his assistant there until 1962 (on leave from 1958). He qualified as a professor in 1962 with the work Investigations on Sentence Linking in Old French (Westermann, Braunschweig 1964) and in 1963 (after rejecting an offer from the Justus Liebig University of Gießen ) became Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Bonn. From 1967 to 1973 he taught at the University of Konstanz , from 1973 to 1985 (after rejection of a call to the Georg-August University in Göttingen ) at the University of Hamburg and from 1985 until his retirement in 1994 (as successor to Helmut Stimm ) at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. He took over the project of a large dictionary of medieval Occitan (DOM), which he headed until 2012 (successor: Maria Selig ). Stempel was part of the interdisciplinary research group Poetics and Hermeneutics .

From 1982 to 1988, Stempel was a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation . He has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1988 and of the Academia Europaea since 1990 . He has received the Werner Heisenberg Medal from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2000) and an honorary doctorate from the University of Cologne (2002).

Works (selection)

• Dictionnaire de l'occitan médiéval (DOM). Niemeyer, Tübingen / De Gruyter, Berlin 1996 ff.
  • Fasc. 1: A - ACCEPTAR, 1996.
  • Fasc. 2: ACCEPTATE - ADENAN, 1999.
  • Fasc. 3: ADENAN - AFERMAT, 2001.
  • Fasc. 4: AFERMETAT - AGREABLE, 2003.
  • Fasc. 5: AGREAR - AIRIENC, 2005.
  • Fasc. 6: AIRIER - AJOST, 2009.
  • Fasc. 7: AJOSTADA - ALBUM, 2013.
  • Supplement 1, 1997.
  • DOM website

literature

• Interdisciplinarity as an adventure. Interview with Wolf-Dieter Stempel . In: Petra Boden, Rüdiger Zill (ed.): Poetics and Hermeneutics in Review. Interviews with stakeholders . Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2017, pp. 81-104.

Web links

• LMU personnel page
• Academia Europaea personnel page, with picture