Emil Winkler (Romanist)

Emil Winkler (born June 4, 1891 in Neutitschein , † January 28, 1942 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian Romanist .

life and work

From 1908 Winkler first studied law, then Romance philology in Vienna. He received his doctorate in 1912 under Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke with the localization of the so-called Capitulare de villis. Linguistic and factual (in: Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 37, 1913). From 1913 to 1914 he studied with Heinrich Morf in Berlin. After being severely wounded in the war, he completed his habilitation in Vienna in 1918 with Karl von Ettmayer on French poets of the Middle Ages. I: Vaillant, II: Marie de France (Vienna 1918). At the University of Innsbruck he was an associate professor for Romance philology with special emphasis on Italian literature from 1921, and a full professor from 1925. In 1928 he moved to Vienna , 1935 to Heidelberg , and in 1938 to Berlin as the successor to Eduard Wechssler . He was a member of the Heidelberg (1935) and the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1939), as well as a corresponding member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences (1939).

Other works

• La Doctrine grammaticale française d'après Maupas et Oudin , Halle a. P. 1912
• (Ed.) The songs of Raoul von Soissons , Halle a. P. 1914
• The poetic work of art , Heidelberg 1924
• Foundation of style , Bielefeld 1929
• Language theory studies , Jena 1933, reprint Ann Arbor 1980
• On the history of the term "Comédie" in France , Heidelberg 1937
• National Idea and Poetry in Italy , Berlin 1940
• (Co- edited ) Journal for French Language and Literature (1935–1942)

literature

• Obituary in: Journal for French Language and Literature 64, 1942, pp. 449–457

Web links

Wikisource: Emil Winkler (Romanist)  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Emil Winkler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Professors at the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Innsbruck - CV (with picture)