Charles Philip Wagner

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Charles Philip Wagner (born December 5, 1876 in Putnam , Connecticut , † May 28, 1964 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) was an American Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

Wagner studied at Yale University with Henry Roseman Lang . After a two-year stay in Madrid and Paris, he received his doctorate in 1902 with the work The sources of El cavallero Cifar (in: Revue hispanique 10, 1903, pp. 5–104). In 1904 he went to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he became an Instructor in Spanish, then Assistant Professor (1907), Associate Professor (1913) and Professor of Romance Languages ​​(1916), finally Professor of Spanish (1930). In 1947 he retired, but remained scientifically active in Ann Arbor.

In 1917, Wagner was Vice President of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish. The Hispanic Society of America awarded him in 1941 their "Medal of Art and Literature". Wagner was a first class knight in the Orden de Isabel la Católica .

Other works

  • Spanish grammar , Ann Arbor 1909, 1914, 1917, 1925
  • (Ed. With Louis How ) The life of Lazarillo de Tormes and his fortunes and adversities , New York 1917
  • (Ed.) El libro del cauallero Zifar (El libro del Cauallero de Dios) , edited from the three extant versions. Part 1, text, Ann Arbor 1929, New York 1971, Millwood, NY 1980

literature

  • BB Ashcom, [Obituary] in: Hispanic Review 33, 1965, pp. 165-167
  • Marylin A. Olsen, The manuscripts, the Wagner edition, and the prologue of the Cavallero Zifar , Diss. University of Wisconsin , Madison 1975
  • Susan Anne Lynch, An etymological glossary for El libro del cauallero Zifar , Diss. University of New Mexico 1980

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Charles Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Putnam (Connecticut)
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1964
Place of death Ann Arbor