Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld

Gustav Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld (born October 1, 1849 in Kiel , † January 11, 1917 in Gautzsch ) was a German Romance philologist , medievalist and literary scholar .

Life

Birch-Hirschfeld studied at the University of Leipzig with Adolf Ebert and Friedrich Zarncke . During his studies in 1868 he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity Germania . He was founded in 1877 with the literary historical study The Sage of the Grail. Her development and poetry training in France and Germany in the 12th and 13th centuries (Leipzig 1877) received her doctorate. He completed his habilitation in 1878 with the work on the Provencal troubadours of the XII. and XIII. Century known epic fabrics (Halle 1878). After a long stay in Paris, he went to the University of Giessen as a private lecturer in 1883 and became a full professor for modern languages there in 1884. In 1891 he switched to the chair for Romance Philology at the University of Leipzig. From 1900 to 1901 he was dean. Birch-Hirschfeld was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. He was the brother of the physician Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld . In 1908 he lived in Gautzsch am Ring 100.

Publications (selection)

History of French literature since the beginning of the 16th century , Stuttgart 1889
History of French literature from the earliest times to the present , by Hermann Suchier and Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld, Vol. 2: Die neue Zeit. From the 16th century to the present , 2nd, reworked. u. Probably ed., Leipzig 1913 (1st edition 1900)

literature

Max Förster: In memory of Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld , Leipzig 1917
W. Theodor Elwert : Birch-Hirschfeld, Gustav Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 252 ( digitized version ).
Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Contemporary Lexicon . Verlag von HA Ludwig Degener, 4th edition, Leipzig 1909, p. 112 f.

Individual evidence

^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 17.

Web links

Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
Overview of Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1878 to summer semester 1914)

personal data
SURNAME	Birch-Hirschfeld, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Birch-Hirschfeld, Gustav Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Romanist, Medievalist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	October 1, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kiel
DATE OF DEATH	January 11, 1917
Place of death	Gautzsch

[1] Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 17.