Elise Riesel

Elise Riesel
Born(1906-10-12)12 October 1906
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died28 September 1989(1989-09-28) (aged 82)
Moscow, USSR
Awards
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Vienna (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineStylistics

Elise Riesel (born Elise Grün) or also Eliza Genrichovna Rizel (born 12 October 1906 in Vienna; died 28 September 1989 in Moscow), was an Austrian linguist.[1]

Life

Riesel was born to medical doctor Heinrich Grün and music teacher Matilde Grün, née Goldstein. Riesel was Jewish. In 1932 she married Josef Riesel, an engineer.[1]

Education and career

Riesel finished high school in Vienna in 1925.[1] In 1930, she completed a PhD in philosophy at the University of Vienna. Following the Austrian Civil War, Riesel moved to the Soviet Union.[2] In 1945, she briefly returned to Vienna and taught at the university there, before returning to Moscow.[3] In 1963 she was awarded the F.-C.-Weiskopf prize.[4] She was also awarded the Ehrennadel in Gold.[1] Riesel retired in 1982.[1]

Riesel is known for her contributions to functional stylistics.[5]

Publications

  • Riesel, Elise. 1959. Stilistik der deutschen Sprache. Moskau: Verlag für fremdsprachige Literatur
  • Riesel, Elise. 1929. Das neulateinische Drama der Protestanten in Deutschland vom Augsburger Religionsfrieden bis zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg. Diss. Wien.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e König, Christoph; Wägenbaur, Birgit (2011). Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950. Walter de Gruyter. p. 1498.
  2. ^ "Digitool Viewer". digital.cjh.org. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  3. ^ Mailath-Pokorny, Andreas. "Wissenschaftsbericht der Stadt Wien 2011" (PDF). pp. 60–61. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-07-27.
  4. ^ "F.-C. Weiskopf Prize". www.adk.de. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  5. ^ Herrmann, J. Berenike; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Schöch, Christof (2015). "Revisiting style, a key concept in literary studies". Journal of Literary Theory. 9 (1): 25–52.