Curt Wittlin
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Curt Wittlin (13 April 1941 – 23 September 2019medieval Catalan language and literature.
Biography
Wittlin studied romance philology in
Germà Colon, and later in Paris, Florence and Barcelona. He got his PhD in 1965 with a thesis about the Catalan translation of Brunetto Latini's Treasure by Guillem de Copons. He became Professor of Romance Philology and Historical Linguistics at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon (Canada
), where he arrived in 1967.
He became a specialist in the edition of medieval translations in Europe of texts by
Saint Augustine and John of Wales, among others. He also worked on Ramon Llull and on the history of medieval Catalan libraries. The Catalan writer to which he devoted most of his life was Francesc Eiximenis
. Wittlin published most of the modern editions of Francesc Eiximenis' works and wrote many studies and articles about Eiximenis.
In 1997 he became a member of the
North American Catalan Society
. In 2000 he received the Creu de Sant Jordi (Saint George cross), a high distinction given by the regional Catalan government.
Works
- Lo llibre de les dones d'Eiximenis (1980) with F. Naccarato
- Repertori d'expressions multinominals i de grups de sinònims en traduccions catalanes antigues (Lluis Nicolau d'Olwerprice, 1989)
- La geometria secreta del tapís de Girona in Revista de Girona, 1991
- De la traducció literal a la creació literària (Serra d'Or prize 1996)
- Entorn de les edicions de textos medievals in Estudis Romànics, 2004
References
- ^ "Dol a la cultura ebrenca per la mor el filòleg medievalista suís Curt Wittlin". ebredigital.cat (in Catalan). 2019-09-23. Archived from the original on 2019-09-24.
External links
- (in English) Biography in the University of Saskatchewan website.
- (in French) Wittlin's works
- (in Catalan) Article about Wittlin in the Great Catalan Encyclopedia
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