Dietrich Behrens

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Dietrich Behrens (born January 12, 1859 in Sophiengroden , † December 18, 1929 in Gießen ) was a German Romanist .

Life

Dietrich Behrens was the son of Bernhard Behrens. He attended elementary school in Neugarmssiel and graduated from the Mariengymnasium Jever . Then Behrens studied philosophy from 1878 at the University of Strasbourg , where he received his doctorate in philosophy on July 19, 1882 . In 1883 he worked at the Strasbourg grammar school and completed his habilitation in 1884 at the University of Greifswald as a private lecturer. In 1890 he went to the University of Jena as an associate professor of new languages and in 1891 he moved to the University of Giessen as a full professor of Romance philology . In Gießen he became a privy councilor in 1906.

Behrens had devoted himself above all to researching the Old French dialects and, together with Heinrich Koerting, was the editor of the “Journal for New French Language and Literature”.

Works

  • Contributions to the history of the French language in England. I: on the phonology of French loanwords in Middle English. Heilbronn 1886
  • Grammatical and lexical work on the living dialects of the langue d'oc and the langue d'ouil. Opole 1887
  • About reciprocal metathesis in Romance. Greifswald 1888
  • Contributions to French word history and grammar. Studies and Reviews. Hall 1910
  • About German language skills in French. Giessen 1923
editor
  • Eduard Schwan: Grammar of Old French. 7th edition 1907

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Schönbohm: Well-known and famous Jeverlanders: personalities of rank a. Respect . Mettcker, Jever 1981.
personal data
SURNAME Behrens, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Sophiengroden
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1929
Place of death to water