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Helga Tepperberg: il culto del dovere compiuto
Helga Tepperberg: the Cult for a Fulfilled Duty

Author(s): Elena Pîrvu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Higher Education , Italian literature, Pedagogy
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: Helga Tepperberg; teacher; cult; duty; appreciation;

Summary/Abstract: The present work aims at paying a tribute to Helga Tepperberg, a tenured teacher of Italian language and literature at the Faculty of Letters of the “Babeș-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, where she generously and devotedly trained many generations. Helga Maria Tepperberg (9 February 1944 – 4 March 2020, a graduate of the Faculty of Romance and Classical Languages of the University of Bucharest, with a major in Italian language and literature and Romanian language and literature, PhD in Philology (Italian literature) of the same university in 1979, with the dissertation Italo Svevo, omul și opera, was nationally and internationally acclaimed for the honesty, accuracy and consistency of her entire activity. She was definitely the most important exegete of Italo Svevo in Romania. Her research also focused on other authors, such as Luigi Pirandello, Giorgio Bassani, Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro Manzoni, Carlo Goldoni.

  • Issue Year: IX/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 298-307
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Italian