Albrecht Reum
Albrecht Reum (born March 5, 1860 in Camburg , † July 4, 1935 in Leipzig ) was a German Romanist , Anglicist and lexicographer , who was best known for the development of a French-language Dictionnaire de Style and an English-language Dictionary of Style many times over Experienced conditions. For the first work, the Académie française appointed him Officer d'Académie. From 1916 to 1925 he was rector of the Nikolaischule Leipzig .
biography
Reum was born on March 5, 1860 in Camburg as the son of the middle school teacher Georg Adam Reum, joined the Alumnat of the Thomasschule in Leipzig at the age of 13 , moved to the upper class of the then Realschule in Zittau at Easter 1879 and passed it on February 17, 1880 the matriculation examination and, at Easter 1880, the matriculation examination at the humanistic grammar school in Zittau. After completing his military service in the IV. Infantry Regiment 103 in Bautzen, he studied modern philology in Leipzig, Geneva, Paris and London from 1882 to 1888. In 1888 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on "De temporibus: a real work by Abbot Aelfric". After many years of teaching at the Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden , the City Council of Leipzig assigned him the post of Rector of the Nikolaischule in 1916, which he held until he reached the statutory age limit in 1925.
Act
Reums Dictionnaire de Style can be described as the first comprehensive collocation dictionary not only of French. In meticulous collecting work based on his own knowledge of the language and viewing the works of French authors of the 19th century, Reum succeeded in capturing the wealth of French word combinations.
Works
- Small French-German style dictionary. Petit dictionnaire de style à l'usage des Allemands . Revised by Henrik Becker. Hanau: Werner Dausien 1955.
- A Dictionary of English Style. Leverkusen: Gottschalksche Verlagbuchhandlung. 3rd edition 1961.
Awards
- 1913: Officier d'Académie of the Académie française
Web links
- Literature by and about Albrecht Reum in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Albrecht Reum in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
Archive of the Nikolaischule Leipzig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reum, Albrecht |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reum, Friedrich Albrecht (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Camburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1935 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |