Bernhard Fehr

Bernhard Fehr

Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Bernhard Fehr (born February 18, 1876 in Basel ; † May 30, 1938 in Zurich ) was a Swiss English student .

Life

Fehr studied English in Basel and Geneva and received his doctorate in 1900. In 1909 he completed his habilitation in English philology in Zurich . During his studies he was a teacher in England from 1899 to 1904, then from 1904 to 1915 he was Professor of English Language and Literature at the St. Gallen Commercial College . From 1915 to 1917 he was professor of English philology at the Technical University of Dresden and from 1918 to 1919 at the University of Strasbourg . From 1919 to 1922 he was again active as a professor at the St. Gallen Commercial College, after which he worked at the University of Zurich until he died in 1938 .

In 1927, Fehr was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . His estate is in the Zurich Central Library .

literature

• Max Wildi:  Fehr, Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 49 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Franz Xaver Bishop: Fehr, Bernhard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 28, 2005 , accessed May 26, 2018 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Fehr in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Literature by and about Bernhard Fehr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Bernhard Fehr in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 79.
2. ^ Estate of Bernhard Fehr (1876–1938). (PDF; 61 kB) Zurich Central Library, accessed on May 26, 2018 .