Albrecht Wagner (English studies)

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Albrecht Wagner (born January 22, 1850 in Suhl , † February 15, 1909 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German philologist and university professor. Actually a Germanist , he became an important representative of English studies .

Life

Wagner grew up with his grandparents and attended the Gustavianum grammar school in Schweinfurt and the Pforta state school . After graduating from school in 1869, he began studying philology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He was released early from military service in the sea ​​battalion due to a knee injury.

He continued his studies at the University of Leipzig and became active in the Corps Thuringia Leipzig . As an inactive , he switched to the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg , which made him Dr. phil. PhD. In the same year he completed his habilitation at the Friedrich Alexander University . As a private lecturer , he created glossaries for the city ​​chronicles of Mainz . When he published a Latin and German version of Visio Tnugdali in 1882 , he increasingly turned to English studies . In 1882/83 he traveled to England . Given his interest in the literature of the Elizabethan Age , he planned a historical-critical edition of Christopher Marlowe . In 1885 he followed the call to a paid associate professor for English studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . When Karl Elze fell ill, in 1887 he was appointed to represent the professor for English language and English literature at the Friedrichs University in Halle . He received the chair in 1893.

At the age of 59 he succumbed to myocarditis , which he contracted after influenza . His successor was Max Förster .

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  1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 155/96
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About the monk of Heilsbronn .
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: About the German names of the oldest Freising documents: A contribution to the history of the old high German language .
  4. ↑ Entry on Albrecht Wagner in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Anglist; Literary scholar of the Elizabethan age
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Suhl
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1909
Place of death Halle (Saale)