Alfred Pillet

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Alfred Pillet (born January 25, 1875 in Breslau ; † October 27, 1928 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German Romance scholar and philologist.

Life

The son of the then senior teacher at the Protestant Realschule I and the French lecturer at the University of Breslau Andre Pillet (* July 5, 1844; † November 8, 1918) and his wife Matthilde (née Körte) came from a Catholic family and grew up in a parental home with two languages. He had received his first lessons at home, then attended the Protestant Realschule I in Breslau and the boys' school. Easter 1885 moved to the newly founded Königs Wilhelm-Gymnasium there, which he left at Easter 1892 as one of the first high school graduates with the school-leaving certificate.

He then began studying at the University of Wroclaw , where he studied modern languages ​​and German studies for three semesters. In Breslau he heard lectures from Carl Appel , Clemens Baeumker , Hermann Ebbinghaus , Richard Foerster , Alfred Hillebrandt , Georg Heinrich Kaufmann (1842–1929), Max Koch (1855–1931), Eugen Kölbing (1846–1899), Theodor Lipps , Friedrich Vogt , with his father and the teacher of the English language Francis Heveningham Pughe (1858– ??). For several semesters he took part in the exercises in the Romansh-English seminar in Breslau, led by Carl Appel and Eugen Kölbing, as well as in those in the Germanic seminar under Max Koch and Friedrich Vogt.

Michaelis In 1893 he moved to the Royal Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In Berlin he attended lectures by Andreas Heusler , Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz , Friedrich Paulsen , Max Roediger (1850–1918), Erich Schmidt , Johannes Schmidt , Adolf Tobler , Karl Weinhold , Julius Zupitza and the lecturer of the Italian language Giuseppe de Rossi took part. He was also a full member of Adolf Tobler's Romance seminar and Julius Zupitza's English seminar.

At the end of his studies he returned to Breslau in 1894. He received his doctorate in Breslau in 1896 with the dissertation on "the neo-Provencal proverbs of the younger Cheltenham song manuscript" and was then appointed doctor of philosophy. In the spring of 1898 he went to Paris and was able to take part in the famous Gaston Paris exercises. On February 6, 1901, he completed his habilitation in Breslau at the Faculty of Philosophy for Romance Philology and in the summer of 1911 was appointed professor for Romance philology at the University of Königsberg . Here he was also rector of the Alma Mater in 1924/25 and held the professorship assigned to him until his death.

Works

In addition to treatises in the scientific journals of his time, the following independent writings have been published by him.

  • The neo-Provencal proverbs of the younger Cheltenham song manuscript. 1896, 1967
  • The Worms Concordat. 1893
  • The fableau of the Trois bossus Ménestrels and related stories earlier and later, a contribution to the old French and comparative literary history. 1901
  • Studies on the pastourelle. 1902
  • Contributions to the criticism of the oldest troubadours. 1911
  • Professor André Pillet: Born: July 5, 1844, Died: November 8, 1918; Obituary. 1918
  • The Nordic countries and peoples. Koenigsberg, 1928
  • To the origin of the old Provencal poetry. Hall 1928

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personal data
SURNAME Pillet, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance philologist and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1928
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)