Eduard Koschwitz

Eduard Koschwitz ( born October 7, 1851 in Breslau, † May 14, 1904 in Königsberg i Pr ) was a German linguist, medievalist, Provenzalist and phoneticians

Life and work

Koschwitz doctorate in 1875 in Wroclaw in Gustav Grober via the Old French Karl trip and spent two years as a high school teacher. In 1877 he habilitated with Eduard Böhmer in Strasbourg, there was a lecturer and was appointed in 1880 as Full Professor of Romance Philology at Greifswald, where he was 1894/95 Rector. In 1896 he went as a successor of Edmund Max Stengel ( in Greifswald became his successor ) to Marburg. In the same year he became a member of the Marburg fraternity Rhine francs. In 1901 he moved to the Albertus University of Königsberg.

Koschwitz ' special merit lay in the pioneering phonetic and morphological description of the French language of his time (partly in cooperation with the French phonetician Abbé Jean Rousselot ) and in the scientific attention of Neuprovenzalischen, the poet Frédéric Mistral he knew personally. He was committed to the practical relevance of studies, both in the language- as in the literary component ( including the recent literature ). Since 1879 he was editor of the Journal of Modern French language and literature with special reference to the teaching in French to German schools ( from 1889 Z. f French Proverbs and references therein). In Marburg he has 1896, the university summer courses, international training courses for teachers of modern languages ​​school subjects, was launched. In 1902 he founded the magazine for French and English lessons.

Works

  • Tradition and language of the Chanson du voyage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem et à Constantinople. A critical examination, Heilbronn 1876
  • Six adaptations of Old French poem of Charlemagne's journey to Jerusalem, Heilbronn 1879
  • Les plus anciens monuments de la langue française, Heilbronn 1879
  • Charlemagne's journey to Jerusalem and Constantin Opel. An old French epic poem, Heilbronn 1880, 5th edition 1913 (reprint Vaduz 1968)
  • Old French ( with Wendelin Förster ) exercise book, Leipzig 1884
  • Commentary on the oldest French language monuments, Heilbronn 1886
  • New French morphology according to their volume capable of Opole / Leipzig in 1888
  • Grammar of the new French literary language (16th - 19th century ), 2 vols, Berlin, 1889, 1894
  • For the pronunciation of French in Geneva and France, Berlin 1892
  • Les Parler parisiens, Paris 1893; Marburg 1898
  • Grammaire historique de la langue of félibres, Greifswald 1894
  • About the Provencal Feliber and your predecessors, Berlin 1894
  • French people moods during the 1870/71 war, Heilbronn 1894 French edition: Les Français avant, pendant et après la guerre de 1870-1871, Paris 1897
  • Instructions for the Study of French philology, Marburg 1897, Russ 1899, engl. 1899
  • Mireio, poème provençal de Frédéric Mistral. Edition publiée pour les cours universitaires, Marburg 1900
  • (Editor), Karl Bartsch, Chrestomathie Provençale ( Xe XVe siècles ), 6th edition, Marburg 1904
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