Erhard Lommatzsch

Erhard Lommatzsch (born February 2, 1886 in Dresden ; † January 20, 1975 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Romance philologist , medievalist , linguist and lexicographer .

life and work

After finishing high school in Wurzen , Lommatzsch studied in Berlin from 1905. He received his doctorate on the system of signs under Adolf Tobler and his successor Heinrich Morf . Depicted on the basis of medieval literature in France (Berlin 1910) and qualified as a satirist in 1913 with the work Gautier de Coincy (Halle an der Saale). The private lecturer was immediately assigned to represent Morf, who was on leave due to illness, and was appointed professor in 1917. In 1921 he was appointed to Greifswald and in 1928 to Frankfurt am Main , where he taught until the winter semester 1955/56. His most famous student was Erich Auerbach , who he did his doctorate in Greifswald.

Lommatzsch was best known as the author of the Old French Dictionary (1925–2002; 11 volumes), which he published in fascicles from the estate of Adolf Tobler - a bundle of approx. 20,000 pieces of paper with excerpts from Old French texts. The first fascicle appeared in 1915. The work was only completed in 2002 by Lommatzsch's student Hans Helmut Christmann (1929–1995) and his collaborators ( Franz Lebsanft , Richard Baum, Brigitte Frey). Richard Baum published a complete bibliography in 2008 as the 93rd delivery of the dictionary.

Lommatzsch was a full member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He was an honorary member of the Modern Language Association of America and an associate member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres ( Institut de France ). In 1975, students and friends dedicated the volume Philologica Romanica to him , edited in conjunction with Erich von Richthofen by Manfred Bambeck and Hans Helmut Christmann (with list of publications).

literature

• Hans Helmut Christmann : Obituary. In: Journal for Romance Philology . Vol. 91, 1975, pp. 717-726.
• W. Theodor Elwert :  Lommatzsch, Erhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 143 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Frank Estelmann, Olaf Müller: Adapted everyday life in German and Romance studies. In: Jörn Kobes, Jan-Otmar Hesse (Hrsg.): Frankfurt scientists between 1933 and 1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, pp. 33–60 (on the role of Lommatzsch in the time of National Socialism ).
• Jürgen Storost : 300 years of Romance languages ​​and literatures at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000, part 1, pp. 330–339 (on the role of Lommatzsch at the Berlin Academy of Sciences).
• Tobler-Lommatzsch. Old French dictionary. Adolf Tobler's posthumous materials, edited and edited by Erhard Lommatzsch, continued by Hans Helmut Christmann, supported by Franz Lebsanft , completed by Richard Baum and Willi Hirdt, with the assistance of Brigitte Frey. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erhard Lommatzsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Erhard Lommatzsch in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)