Edwin George Ross Waters
Edwin George Ross Waters (born May 12, 1890 in Wandsworth , † March 22, 1930 ) was a British Romanist.
life and work
Waters was a student and employee of Paul Studer , whom he represented on his Oxford chair from 1922 to 1924. In 1926 he officially became a reader, and in 1927 he succeeded his teacher at the chair for Romance philology. Alfred Ewert succeeded him in 1930 .
Works
- (Ed. Together with Paul Studer) Historical French Reader. Medieval Period , Oxford 1924, 1958, 1970, 1974
- (Ed.) The Anglo-Norman Voyage of St. Brendan by Benedeit. A poem of the early twelfth century, edited with introduction, notes & glossary , Oxford 1928, Geneva 1974
- (Ed.) A Thirteenth Century Algorism in French Verse. Edited and translated, with introduction and notes , Bruges 1928
- (Ed.) An old Italian version of the Navigation Sancti Brendani . With a foreword by Professor Johan Vising, London 1931
literature
- Mario Roques in: Romania 56, 1930, p. 313 (“bon travailleur, dévoué et courtois”)
- Rebecca Posner: Romance Linguistics in Oxford 1840-1940, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft, Tübingen 1994, pp. 375–383
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waters, Edwin George Ross |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waters, EGR; Waters, Edwin George R .; Waters, Edwin G. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wandsworth |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1930 |