Eduard Schwan

Eduard Schwan (born April 12, 1858 in Gießen ; † July 27, 1893 there ) was a German Romance philologist .

life and work

Eduard Schwan's parents were the innkeeper Hermann from Giessen and his wife Wilhelmine Iburg. After graduating from high school in Giessen, Schwan studied in Rome, Giessen, Strasbourg, Paris and Breslau. At Strasbourg he received his doctorate in 1880 under Gustav Gröber with a thesis on Philippe de Remi, sire de Beaumanoir, and his works (in: Romanische Studien 4 , Bonn 1880). He qualified as a professor in 1884 with The Old French Song Manuscripts, Their Relationship, Their Origin and Their Purpose. A literary historical study (Berlin 1886) with Alfred Tobler at the University of Berlin , where he then taught as a private lecturer. After a brief substitution at the University of Greifswald , Schwan was from 1891 as the successor to Dietrich Behrens Associate Professor of Romance Philology in Jena . He was succeeded by Wilhelm Cloëtta after. The old French grammar "Schwan-Behrens" published by him and continued by Dietrich Behrens was one of the most famous textbooks of Romance studies for almost a century.

Other works

• Old French grammar. Laut- und Formenlehre , Leipzig 1888, 172 pages, 2nd edition 1893, 247 pages, 3rd edition by Dietrich Behrens , 1898, 272 pages, 12th edition 1925; Reprint Darmstadt 1963, 1966 (translation of the 4th edition into French by Oscar Bloch, Leipzig 1900, with a foreword by Ferdinand Brunot; 2nd edition of the translation after the 9th German edition, Leipzig 1913)
• The beginnings of the modern novel , in: Prussian Yearbooks 70, 1892 (15 pages)

literature

• Christian Faludi: Portrait of Eduard Schwan, in: ders., Joachim Hendel (ed.): The "History of Romance Studies at the University of Jena" by Herbert Koch: An edition supplemented by portraits of professors and a list of Koch's publications (= sources and contributions on the history of the University of Jena, Volume 14), Steiner, Stuttgart 2019, p. 156f.
• Jürgen Storost : 158. The “new philologies”, their institutions and periodicals. An overview , in: History of Linguistics , ed. by Sylvain Auroux, EFK Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe u. a., 2nd part, Berlin, New York 2001, pp. 1241-1272, here p. 1251
• Hans-Manfred Militz / Wolfgang Schweickard : Tradition and perspectives of Romance studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in: The meaning of the Romance languages ​​in the Europe of the future. Romance Studies Colloquium IX , ed. by Wolfgang Dahmen u. a., Tübingen 1996, pp. 69-88