Adolf Rambeau

Adolf Rambeau (born April 3, 1852 in Jessen (Niederau) , † March 27, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German Romance studies and English studies.

life and work

Rambeau received his doctorate in Marburg in 1877 with the thesis on the authentically verifiable assonances of the "Chanson de Roland". A contribution to the knowledge of the old French vocalism (Halle a. S. 1878). He taught Romance philology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the 1990s and Modern Languages ​​at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston from 1899 to 1904 . From 1906 to 1917 he was an associate professor for English, Italian and Spanish at the University of Berlin and an English teacher at the Department of Oriental Languages. Rambeau was from 1895 co-editor (in connection) of the magazine Die Neueren Sprachen .

Other works

• (Ed.) The dramas ascribed to Trouvere Adam de la Hale [texts imprimé]: "Li Jus du Pèlerin", "Li Gieus de Robin et de Marion", Li Jus Adan ", Marburg 1886
• The French and English lessons in the German school, with special emphasis on the grammar school. A contribution to the reform of language teaching , Hamburg 1886
• (with Jean Passy ) Chrestomathie française, morceaux choisis de prose et de poésie, avec prononciation figurée à l'usage des étrangers , Paris 1897, 5th edition, ed. by Paul Passy , Paris / Leipzig 1926 (English: A French reader. Based upon Passy-Rambeau's Chrestomathie française. Arranged, with notes and vocabulary , New York 1905)
• From and about America. Studies of the culture in the United States of North America , Marburg 1912

literature

• Alexander M. Kalkhoff, Romance Philology in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries , Tübingen 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Rambeau in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bbf.dipf.de