Wendelin Förster

Wendelin Foerster ( born February 10, 1844 in poacher at Trautenau, Bohemia, † May 18, 1915 in Bonn) was an Austrian linguist.

Life

Foerster studied classical philology at the University of Vienna in 1868 and laid the teaching examination. He then worked as a secondary school teacher. He received his doctorate in 1872 at John Vahlen with the work " De Rufi Festi eiusque codicibus ". After a year-long study trip to France, he habilitated in 1873 at the University of Vienna in Romance Philology. From 1874 he taught at the University of Prague, from 1876 at the University of Bonn as the successor of Friedrich Christian Diez. From 1889 until his degree in Romance Languages ​​in 1891 studied the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello with him. He was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.