Axel Wallensköld

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Axel Gabriel Wallensköld (born May 10, 1864 in Saint Petersburg , † March 22, 1933 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Wallensköld studied in Helsinki and Paris (with Gaston Paris ). At the University of Helsinki he was a lecturer from 1891 to 1905, from 1905 to 1915 associate professor and from 1915 to 1929 (as successor to Werner Söderhjelm ) holder of the chair for Romance philology. From 1902 to 1925 he was president of the Neuphilologische Verein / Société Néophilologique in Helsinki, which published the journal Neuphilologische Mitteilungen .

Wallensköld held numerous public offices. He was committed to the spread of the planned language Ido .

Works

  • (Ed. With Werner Söderhjelm) Le mystère de Saint Laurent, Helsinki 1890
  • (Ed.) Chansons de Conon de Béthune, Trouveur artésien de la fin du XIIe siècle, Helsinki 1891
  • (Ed. With Uno Lindelöf) Les Chansons de Gautier d'Épinal, Helsinki 1901
  • Le conte de la femme chaste convoitée par son beau-frère. Etude de littérature comparée, Helsinki 1907
  • (Ed.) Florence de Rome. Chanson d'aventure du premier quart du 13e siècle, 2 vols., Paris 1907–1909, New York 1968
  • La construction du complément des comparatifs et des expressions comparatives dans les langues romanes, in: Mémoires de la Société neophilologique de Helsinki 5, 1909, pp. 377–478
  • (Ed.) Les Chansons de Conon de Béthune, Paris 1921, 1968
  • Kortfattad Lärobok i Ido för självstudium, Helsinki 1922
  • (Ed.) Les Chansons de Thibaut de Champagne, roi de Navarre, Paris 1925

literature

  • Uno Lindelöf, Axel Gabriel Wallensköld. En minnesteckning, Helsinki 1935
  • Heidi Silvennoinen, Werner Söderhjelm - pionnier de la philologie romane et de la nouvelle méthode d'enseignement des langues modern en Finlande. Analysis of the manuels de français de Söderhjelm - Tötterman, Diss.Jyväskylä 2000, p. 10

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personal data
SURNAME Wallensköld, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallensköld, Axel Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1933
Place of death Helsinki