Emil Ruth

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Emil Ruth (born February 14, 1809 in Hanau ; † August 28, 1869 in Heidelberg ) was a German Romanist and Italianist.

Life

Emil Konrad Friedrich Ruth studied from 1828 in Marburg, Munich and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1832 with the thesis De initiis philosophiae Graecae (Frankfurt 1833). In 1837 he passed the French state examination. From 1840 to 1844 he headed a Protestant educational institution in Florence. In 1844 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg. From 1844 to 1867 he was a private lecturer and from 1867 until his death he was an associate professor for modern languages ​​at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

“Just as the doctrine of the soul and the body complement and explain one another, so the historian cannot give us a living picture of the peoples without penetrating the inner soul of the people from the external forms of development, and us theirs To demonstrate direction in their poetry; so the writer too will endeavor in vain to reveal the poetry of a people to us if he does not show how the soul of it has developed in external phenomena, as well as its character and therefore its mode of expression and even its form in part is conditioned by its history. "

- Emil Ruth, History of Italian Poetry , Vol. 1, p. 2

Works

  • Poems. Edler, Hanau 1836
  • History of Italian Poetry. 2 vol., Brockhaus, Leipzig 1844/1847 (digital copies of vol. 1 and vol. 2 at Google Books ; table of contents of both vols. In vol. 2)
  • Studies on Dante Allighieri. A contribution to the understanding of the Divine Comedy. Fues, Tübingen 1853 ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
    • Italian translation by P. Mugna: Studi sopra Dante Allighieri per servire all'intelligenza della Divina Commedia. Venice 1865; Milan 2008
  • History of the Italian people under Napoleonic rule as the basis of a recent history of Italy. Mayer, Leipzig 1859 ( digitized in the Internet Archive)
  • History of Italy from the years 1815 to 1850. 2 vols., Bassermann, Heidelberg 1867 ( digitized volume 1 at Google Books, digitized volume 2 in the MDZ )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short review in Blätter für literary entertainment № 268 of September 24, 1836, p. 1129 f.
personal data
SURNAME Ruth, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruth, Emilio; Ruth, Emil Konrad Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1869
Place of death Heidelberg