Eduard Wechssler

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Eduard Wechssler (born October 19, 1869 in Ulm , † January 29, 1949 in Sontheim an der Brenz ) was a German Romance philologist , philologist and literary scholar .

life and work

Wechssler first studied in Tübingen (and belonged to the Evangelical Monastery ), later in Munich, Heidelberg and especially Halle. At the University of Halle-Wittenberg he did his doctorate in 1893 under Hermann Suchier on The Romance Lamentations of the Virgin Mary and completed his habilitation in 1895 (after a stay in Paris) with a study on the various editors of the Graal-Lancelot cycle ascribed to Robert von Borron . In 1904 he was appointed to the University of Marburg , where he had been teaching since 1901. In Marburg he was initially an associate professor, and from 1909 a full professor of Romance philology. In 1920 he followed a call to Berlin and stayed there until his retirement in 1937, where Emil Winkler followed him. Wechssler was pioneering in the consideration of the newer and newest French literature and in the lively contact with its representatives, many of whom were guests in his Berlin seminar from 1926 to 1934.

On his 60th birthday, students and friends dedicated the publication Philological-Philosophical Studies to him . In 1936 he became director of the "Portugal-Brazil Institute". Wechssler was an honorary doctor of the University of Coimbra .

Other works

  • The development of the legend of the Holy Grail down to Richard Wagner's Parsifal , Halle (Saale) 1898
  • The cultural problem of minstrels. Vol. I: Minnesang and Christianity , Halle 1909 (Vol. II: Minnesang und Rittertum, not published)
  • Paul Verlaine , Marburg 1914
  • The French and Us. The change in the estimation of German idiosyncrasies 1871-1914 , Jena 1915
  • Molière as a philosopher , Marburg 1910, 2nd A. 1915
  • Ways to Dante , Halle 1922
  • Esprit und Geist , Bielefeld 1927
  • The generation as a youth series and their struggle for the way of thinking , Leipzig 1930
  • Youth series of German people 1733-1933 , Leipzig 1934
  • Hellas in the Evangelium , Berlin 1936, 2. A. Hamburg 1947

Obituaries

  • Klaus Geisler, in: Neuphilologische Zeitschrift 1, 1949, Issue 3, pp. 60–62
  • Walter Mönch, in: Archive for the Study of Modern Languages ​​187, 1950, pp. 83–86
  • Kurt Wais, in: Schwäbisches Tagblatt , February 9, 1949

literature

  • Hans Helmut Christmann in: Marburg scholars in the first half of the 20th century , Ed. Ingeborg Schnack, Marburg 1977, pp. 591–599 (with a contribution by Bruno Rech)
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 456 .
  • Susanne Dalstein-Paff: Eduard Wechssler (1869-1949), Romanist in the service of the German nation. [with a French résumé p. 391–409], Thèse Universität Metz , Universität Kassel 2006 (contains a list of publications) online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne [Dalstein-] Paff, Eduard Wechssler's French lecture series at the Romance Seminar of the Berlin University 1926-1934, in: French culture in the Berlin of the Weimar Republic, ed. by Hans Manfred Bock, Tübingen 2005, pp. 173–211 (French version in: Echanges culturels et relations diplomatiques, éd. Gilbert Krebs, Paris 2004, pp. 175–218).
  2. ↑ Jena-Leipzig 1929 [with list of publications]
personal data
SURNAME Wechssler, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wechßler, Johann Eduard Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance scholar, philologist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1949
Place of death Sontheim an der Brenz