Bernhard Egidius Konrad ten Brink

Bernhard ten Brink ( born January 12, 1841 in Amsterdam, † January 29, 1892 in Strasbourg ) was a German Anglist and Romanist.

Life and work

Ten Brink finished high school in Essen. He received his Ph.D. in 1865 in Bonn as a student of Friedrich Diez and Nikolaus Delius with Conjectanea in historam rei metricae franco- Gallicae (Bonn 1865), 1866 habilitated in Münster Critical studies on the Roman de Rou, where he became associate professor in 1868. In 1870 he was appointed as successor to Wilhelm Treitz as a full professor of Western languages ​​to Marburg and in 1872 as professor of modern languages ​​to Strasbourg. 1874, the Strasbourg seminar for modern languages ​​in a anglistisches and a romanized Thematic Seminar was divided. Ten Brink, who was appointed to the anglistischen Chair led, " a years -long feud with his Romanist colleague Eduard Böhmer that he read in the field of French and check wanted " ( Christmann, P. 28 ), " because he separation of the its smaller multiple of the larger and more glorious Romance did not see " ( Storost, p 92). 1890/91 ten Brink was rector of the University of Strasbourg.

Writings

• Grammar or logic? Send letter to Mr Edélestand you Méril to Paris, Münster 1869
• Chaucer. Studies of the history of its development and the chronology of his writings, Münster 1870
• The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: attempt at a critical edition, Münster 1871
• History of English Literature, I, Berlin 1877 (english: London 1887), 2nd edition 1899; II Until the Reformation, Strasbourg 1893 ( english: London 1901), III, London 1902
• Duration and sound. A contribution to the history of vowel quantity in Old French, Strasbourg 1879
• Chaucer's language and versification, Leipzig 1884, 2nd edition 1899, 3rd edition 1920
• Beowulf. Studies, Strasbourg 1888
• Shakespere. Five lectures from the estate, Strasbourg 1893, 2nd edition 1894, 3rd edition 1907