Johann August Hermann (John) Koch
August Hermann Johannes (John) Koch ( born December 22, 1850 in Orunia (Danzig), West Prussia, † September 28, 1934 in Berlin) was one of the most modern researchers to the literature of the English Middle Ages, particularly the works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Life
Cook visited the Castle School (Königsberg ). After high school he studied Romance languages and English at the Albertus University of Königsberg. In 1869 he became a member of the Corps Baltia Königsberg. His studies he interrupted to participate as a volunteer in the 1st East Prussian Field Artillery Regiment on Franco-German War. In 1874 he passed the state examination in German philology and modern languages . In 1875 he received a doctorate in phil .., entered the teaching profession in the room Königsberg and made several trips to the United Kingdom and France and Italy. In 1878 he married Thomasine poles. A year later he moved to the Dorotheenstädtische junior high school, where he remained for 32 years. Koch died after a long illness at the age of 84.
Despite his teaching cooking found time for academic work in the Romanesque and English philology, comparative literature and pedagogy. In particular, in the study of late medieval English author Geoffrey Chaucer cooking became a world authority. Between 1879 and 1934 more than 70 peer reviewed cooking publications from the Chaucerforschung.Er wrote several dozen technical papers to source questions and manuscript situation. Of particular importance are its text-critical editions of the Canterbury Tales and its text edition of Chaucer's so-called smaller seals.
On the occasion of retirement in October 1911 Koch was awarded the Red Eagle Order 4th class.
Student Corp.
His mother Corps Baltia Königsberg conferred Koch in 1921 unanimously honorary membership. From Guestphalia Berlin he received in 1929 and 1932 Corp. loop the tape. Before and after the First World War he was active for decades in association Corp. age students. For the academical Monatshefte and the German Corp. newspaper he wrote more than a hundred posts. From 1893 to 1905 he edited the Berlin Address Book Age Kösener Corp. students. The "cookbook" led by the widely ramified corp student world of Berlin and its surroundings and was known each corps students. 1933, there appeared in the 16th edition. As the leaves of memory ( Schmiedeberg ) had been purchased in 1925 by VAC, cooking it underwent the first critical review.
Expenditure ( selection)
- ( Eds.) Geoffrey Chaucer: The Pardoner 's Prologue and Tale. A Critical Edition. Berlin: Felber; Heidelberg: Winter, 1902.
- (Ed.) A Detailed Comparison of the Eight Manuscripts of Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales. London: Kegan Paul, French, Trübner & Co., 1913.
- ( Eds.) Geoffrey Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales: After the Ellesmere manuscript with readings, notes, and a glossary. Heidelberg: Winter, 1915.
- Chaucer's erudition in the Roman classics. English Studies 57 (1923 ), 8-84.
- ( Eds.) Geoffrey Chaucer Smaller seals: together with introduction, readings, notes and a glossary. Heidelberg: Winter, 1928.