Emile Freymond

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Emile Freymond

Emile Freymond (born July 9, 1855 in Breslau ; † May 9, 1918 in Prague ) was a German Romance studies .

life and work

Freymond studied at the universities of Breslau, Berlin and Strasbourg. He received his doctorate in 1882 at the University of Strasbourg with the thesis On the rich rhyme in old French poets up to the beginning of the 14th century (Halle a. S. 1882). He completed his habilitation in 1883 at the University of Heidelberg on the subject of jugglers and menestrels (Halle a. S. 1883) and from 1884 was an associate professor for Romance philology there. From 1890 to 1901 Freymond was full professor at the University of Bern , and from 1901 until his death at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague.

Works

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the old French Arthurian novels in prose. I., in: Journal for French Language and Literature 17, 1895
  • Arthur's fight with the monster cat. An episode of the Vulgate des livre d'Artus; the legend and its location in Savoy , Halle a. Saale 1899, Ann Arbor / London 1980

literature

  • Alexander M. Kalkhoff, Romance Philology in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries , Tübingen 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Freymond, Emile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freymond, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1918
Place of death Prague