Edmund Stengel (Romanist)

Edmund Stengel (born April 5, 1845 in Halle (Saale) , † November 3, 1935 in Marburg ; full name: Edmund Max Stengel ) was a German Romanist .

life and work

Edmund Stengel was the son of Hermann Stengel and Ida Voigt, a daughter of Friedrich Sigmund Voigt and Susette von Loevenich. studied in Bonn with Friedrich Diez and Nikolaus Delius and received his doctorate in 1868 with the thesis Vocalism of the Latin element in the most important Romance dialects of Graubünden and Tyrol, established and proven by numerous examples using the related Romance languages . In 1873 he was given a double professorship for English and Romance philology at the University of Marburg and in 1880 a professorship for Romance philology. In 1896 he went to the University of Greifswald as the successor to Eduard Koschwitz (who became his successor in Marburg) , where he retired in 1913. He was also a member of the district council and from 1897 to 1919 a member of the Greifswald Citizens' College . From 1907 to 1911 he represented the Free People's Party in the German Reichstag as a member of the constituency of Rügen and was editor of the journal of the Association for Defense against Anti-Semitism . In 1913 he became a Privy Councilor. Edmund Stengel was married to Ida Herrmann, whose children were Edmund E. Stengel and Walter Stengel .

Joseph Hengesbach and Otto Böckel did their doctorates with him.

Since 1880 he was a member of the Marburg Burschenschaft Rheinfranken .

Fonts

Codex manu scriptus Digby 86. Halis 1871.
Communications from French manuscripts in the Turin University Library. Halle (Saale) 1873.
Li Romans de Durmart le Galois. Stuttgart 1873. Reprinted Amsterdam 1969.
The old French Roland song. Heilbronn 1878.
The two oldest Provencal grammars. Marburg 1878. Reprinted 1971.
Dictionary of the oldest French language. Marburg 1882.
La Cancun de Saint Alexis. Marburg 1882.
Words of memory to Friedrich Diez. Marburg 1883.
Contributions to the history of Romance philology in Germany: Festschrift for the first New Philology Day in Germany in Hanover. Marburg 1886.
Chronological index of French grammars from the end of the 14th to the end of the 18th century. Jena 1890. Newly published with an appendix by Hans-Josef Niederehe. Amsterdam 1976.
The old Provencal song collection c of the Laurenziana in Florence. In: Scientific supplement to the course catalog of the University of Greifswald. Winter 1899/1900. ( Digitized in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Digital Library)
The oldest French language monuments. Marburg 1901.

Awards

Secret government council
1919: Honorary citizen of Greifswald

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 317-318.

Web links

Literature by and about Edmund Stengel in the catalog of the German National Library
Edmund Stengel in the database of members of the Reichstag
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Individual evidence

↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5747, p. 53 ( digitized version ).
^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 507.

personal data
SURNAME	Stengel, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stengel, Edmund Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Romance philologist and politician (FVp), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1935
Place of death	Marburg

[1] see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5747, p. 53 ( digitized version ).

[2] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 507.