Heinrich Lausberg (12 October 1912 in

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

; died 11 April 1992 in Münster) was a German

rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...

ian, classical philologist and historical linguist specialising in Romance studies. His 1960 treatise
Handbook of literary rhetoric
', is considered one of the most complete and detailed summaries of classical rhetoric from the perspective of Quintillian's four operations.

Groupe µ A group is a unit (military), military unit or a Formation (military), military formation that is most often associated with military aviation. Air and aviation groups The terms group and wing (military aviation unit), wing differ significantl ...

(1970) ''

A General Rhetoric ''A General Rhetoric'' is a 1970 book by the Belgian semioticians known as Groupe µ. The first part of the book reformulates classical rhetoric within semiotics,Eco (1976) while the second part discusses the new concept of a ''general rhetoric'', ...

'', Introduction His daughter, Marion Lausberg, is a classical philologist, too.

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Romance philologists University of Bonn faculty 1912 births 1992 deaths Trope theorists University of Münster faculty German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub