Deutscher Professor für Rhetorik, Altphilologe und Literaturhistoriker, Schriftsteller, Kritiker und Übersetzer. Jens promovierte 1944 im Alter von 21 Jahren mit der Arbeit "Die Funktion der Stichomythie in Sophokles' Tragödien der Mannesjahre" in Freiburg. Von 1963 bis 1988 hatte er an der Universität Tübingen den bundesweit ersten Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Rhetorik inne, der eigens für ihn eingerichtet worden war.
Walter Jens
×CloseGerman philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer
Born | 1923 |
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Walter Jens
×CloseGerman philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer
Born | 1923 |
Subjects
History and criticism, German literature, Technique, Drama, Modern Literature, Fiction, German Authors, History, Literature, Criticism and interpretation, Greek drama (Tragedy), Biography, Christianity, Bible, Congresses, Euthanasia, German Paraphrases, Moral and ethical aspects, Odysseus (Greek mythology), Religion and literature, Right to die, SEL Library selection, 20th century, Appreciation, Assisted suicidePeople
Walter Jens (1923-2013), Hans Küng (1928-), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-), Euripides, Georg Büchner (1813-1837), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862), Sophocles, Wolfgang Koeppen (1906-1996), Aeschylus, Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Hans Küng, Hans Mayer (1907 March 19-), Heinrich Albertz (1915-), Heinrich Böll (1917-1985), Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), Judas Iscariot, Julius Caesar, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Paul Levi (1883-1930), Theodor Fontane (1819-1898), Thomas Mann (1875-1955), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916-), Wolfgang Koeppen (1906-)Time
20th century, 19th century, 1933-1945, 53-44 B.C., Modern period, 1500-, Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.Links (outside Open Library)
Alternative names
- Jens,Walter.
- WALTER JENS
- Inge und Walter Jens
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