Eduard Böhmer (Romanist)
Carl Eduard Böhmer (born May 24, 1827 in Stettin ; † February 5, 1906 in Baden-Baden -Lichtental) was a Romance philologist and Protestant theologian. His research areas were mainly Italian literary history ( Dante ) and Romansh .
He was born in Stettin as the son of the grammar school teacher and historian Wilhelm Böhmer (1791–1842). From 1846 he studied theology and philology in Halle and Berlin, habilitated in theology in Halle in 1854 , received an extraordinary professorship there in 1866 and a full professorship for Romance philology in 1868, and in 1872 was appointed in the same capacity at the newly founded University of Strasbourg. Retired in 1879, he lived in Vienna.
Boehmer's first publication was the as yet unprinted Irsetatus de Deo et homine by Baruch Spinoza (Halle 1852), which he found in Holland. In the theological field, he also published:
- About the Apocalypse of St. John (Halle 1855);
- The first book of the Torah (Halle 1862); an output of
- J. Sleidanus' speeches to Kaiser a. Reich (Stuttgart 1878, Literary Association)
as well as various things about the Reformation movements in Spain, such as: The beginnings of Reformation movements in Spain under Emperor Charles V from original acts of the Inquisition Tribunal in Toledo. (on the trial of the Franciscans Franzisca Hernandez and Frai Franzisco Ortiz), (Leipzig 1865) and the writing Spanish reformers of two centuries from 1520. Their lives and writings I (Strasbourg 1874–83, Vol. 1 and 2). With Ludwig Giesebrecht he published the magazine Domaris from 1864–65 . As secretary of the German Dante Society, Böhmer also edited the first three volumes of the yearbook with Carl Witte (Leipzig 1867-70), which also contain contributions from him, alongside which his writings on Dante's Monarchia and De vulgari eloquentia (Halle 1868) are to be mentioned. Other publications are: On contemporary Provençal poetry (Halle 1870); an edition of the old French Rolandslied ( Roncesval, das. 1872) and the magazine Romanische Studien, founded by him in 1871 , which contains valuable essays, mostly historical ones.
Bohemian one of has Graziadio Ascoli developed phonetics developed that today as Böhmer-Ascoli is in the Romanesque Dialektologie wide application. Its German counterpart is the Teuthonista .
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : BÖHMER, Eduard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 665.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Böhmer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Eduard Böhmer in the German Digital Library
- Entry on Eduard Böhmer in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böhmer, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Böhmer, Carl Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romance scholar and theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 5, 1906 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |