Alfred Ewert

Alfred Ewert (born July 14, 1891 in Halstead , Kansas , † October 22, 1969 in Oxford ) was a British Romance scholar of North American origin.

life and work

Ewert grew up in Gretna , Manitoba (Canada) that closed in 1912 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and went on a scholarship for the study of German and French to the Saint John's College of Oxford . During the First World War he fought in the Canadian Expeditionary Force . In 1920 he taught for a year in Dallas , then at the Taylor Institution in Oxford. From 1930 to 1958 he was Professor of Romance Philology and Fellow of Trinity College at Oxford, succeeding Edwin George Ross Waters . He was followed by TBW Reid . Ewert is best known for his book The French Language (London 1933, 1943, 1969). In 1957 he was elected a member of the British Academy .

Other works

• (Ed.) Gui de Warewic. Roman du XIIIe siècle , 2 vols., Paris 1932/1933
• (Ed.) The romance of Tristan. A poem of the twelfth century , 2 vols., Oxford 1939/1970
• (Ed.) Marie de France, Lais , Oxford 1944
• Of the precellence of the French tongue , Oxford 1958

literature

• Studies in medieval French. Presented to Alfred Ewert in honor of his seventieth birthday , Oxford 1961 (with picture and list of writings)
• Rebecca Posner: Romance Linguistics in Oxford 1840-1940, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft, Tübingen 1994, pp. 375–383
• S. Ullmann: Alfred Ewert, 1891–1969 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 55 , 1970, pp. 377-389 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 26, 2020 .