Alfons Kissner

Alfons Kissner (born April 3, 1844 in Hamburg , † August 21, 1928 in Naumburg (Saale) . Full name: Paul Eduard Alfons Kissner ) was a German Roman and English studies scholar .

life and work

Kissner studied in Bonn with Nikolaus Delius and received his doctorate in Marburg in 1867 with the thesis Chaucer in his relations to Italian literature (Bonn 1867). He was then the librarian of the Grand Duchess Helene Pawlowna ( Charlotte von Württemberg ). In 1875 he was appointed as a private scholar to the newly established double professorship for French and English at the University of Erlangen , in 1877 he also took on a double professorship ( full professorship ) in Königsberg as the successor to Jakob Schipper and in 1901 as the successor to Eduard Koschwitz to a full professorship for Romance philology Marburg. He was the translator for Ariost (Munich 1908/1909, Berlin 1922).

He was a member of the student union Turnerschaft Markomannia Königsberg (today: Alte Turnerschaft Eberhardina-Markomannia Tübingen).

On August 25, 1877, he married the merchant's daughter Regina Filehne (* 1851) in Berlin.

literature

• Poetic letters, collected and printed as a manuscript for his 60th birthday on April 3, 1905. presented. v. Henry Goudy and Jakob Schipper. Vienna 1905, OCLC 635328195 .
• Alexander M. Kalkhoff: Romance Philology in the 19th and early 20th Century . Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8233-6504-4 .
• Jürgen Storost : 158. The 'new philologies', their institutions and periodicals: an overview. In: Sylvain Auroux, EFK Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe et al. (Ed.): History of the linguistics. 2nd subband. Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-016735-2 , pp. 1241-1272.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marriage certificate dated August 25, 1877.
2. ↑ Ursula Apel: Hermann Hesse, people and key figures in his life: Supplement A – Z. Saur, 1993, ISBN 3-598-11158-4 .

Web links

• Kissner, Paul Eduard Alfons. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).