Arthur Franz (Romanist)

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Arthur Franz (born August 26, 1881 in Dresden , † November 28, 1963 in Jena ) was a German Romance philologist .

life and work

Franz studied Romance and Germanic philology a. a. with Max Heinze , Karl Brugmann and Emil Jungmann at the University of Leipzig . He did his doctorate in 1905 in Leipzig under Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld on The literary portrait in France in the age of Richelieu and Mazarin . From July to September 1906 he completed his legal clerkship at the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig. He completed his habilitation in Gießen in 1912 with Dietrich Behrens with studies on Walloon dialect syntax . From 1922 to 1929 he was the successor of Walther Küchler Full Professor of Romance Philology in Würzburg , then in Königsberg . After the war he was a lecturer in Jena from 1949 and a professor from 1951 to 1954.

Other works

  • About the troubadour Marcabru. Lecture given at the gathering of German philologists and school men Marburg 1913 , Marburg 1914
  • On the Gallo-Roman syntax , Jena 1921
  • New philological currents: reflections on the 17th general German new philologists' day in Halle (4-6 October 1920), Gießen 1921
  • From Victor Hugo's workshop , 2 volumes, Gießen 1929, 1934
  • Ewiger Dante , 3 vols., Göttingen 1948, 1949
  • (Editor) Heinrich Gelzer: Old French Reader: With a detailed glossary , Heidelberg 1953
  • (Translation from French) Michel de Montaigne , The Essais , selected, transferred and introduced, Leipzig 1953 (Dieterich Collection), Stuttgart: Reclam 1969

literature

  • Arthur Franz, My Life in the View of the Eightieth Year: A Contribution to Romance Studies of the Twentieth Century , ed. by Ulrich Franz and Jost M. Franz, Munich 1963
  • Werner Krauss , Letters 1922-1976 , ed. by Peter Jehle, Frankfurt am Main 2002, p. 979
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”. 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 727 and passim

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mitteldeutsche Familienforschung (Germany): Mitteldeutsche Familienkunde, Volume 8 , p. 158, Degener, 1985
  2. ^ Arthur Franz: The literary portrait in France in the age of Richelieu and Mazarins , p. 59.
  3. ↑ Rudolf Weinmeister: The teaching staff of the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium during the first 25 years of its existence (1902-1927) , in: Twenty-five anniversary of the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig 1927 , Leipzig 1927, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Franz, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1963
Place of death Jena