Leo Spitzer

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Leo Spitzer (7 February 1887 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 16 September 1960 in Forte dei Marmi, Italy) was an Austrian Romanist and Hispanist, and an influential and prolific literary critic. He was known for his emphasis on stylistics.

He was a doctoral student of Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, receiving his doctorate in 1910. He was a professor of the University of Marburg in 1925, at the University of Cologne in 1930. He left Germany in 1933, moving to Istanbul. From there he went to Johns Hopkins University in 1936 (succeeding the chair in Romance philology left vacant with the death of David S. Blondheim in 1934), where he remained for the rest of his life.

According to René Wellek and Austin Warren:

Leo Spitzer early applied [parallelism of linguistic traits and content-elements] by investigating the recurrence of such motifs as blood and wounds in the writings of Henri Barbusse [...]. Later, Spitzer has tried to establish the connexion between recurrent stylistic traits and the psychology of the author, e.g. he connected the repetitive style of Péguy with his Bergsonism, and the style of Jules Romains with his Unanimism.^[1]

References

↑ Wellek and Warren, Theory of Literature, 3rd edition (Penguin, 1963), pp.182-83.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 71397982 LCCN: n82097702 ISNI: 0000 0001 2138 6473 GND: 118752138 BNF: cb11925364j

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Name	Spitzer, Leo
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Short description	Hungarian hispanist
Date of birth	7 February 1887
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Date of death	16 September 1960
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