Erik Staaff

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Erik Schöne Staaff (born March 4, 1867 in Stockholm , † August 22, 1936 ) was a Swedish Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

Erik Staaff was the son of the politician Albert Staaff (1821-1895) and the brother of the politician Karl Staaff (1860-1915), as well as the journalist and writer Pehr Gustav Staaff (1856-1903). He should not be confused with the classical philologist Erik Staaff (1860–1950), who received his doctorate at the same university (Uppsala) almost in the same year (1897).

Staaff studied in Uppsala, where he completed his habilitation on Le suffixe -arius dans les langues romanes (Uppsala 1896). From 1903 to 1904 he stayed in Spain. In 1906 he became professor in Uppsala, and at the end of 1908 full professor for Romance philology (as successor to Per Adolf Geijer, 1841-1919, and colleague of Carl Wahlund, 1846-1913). Scientifically, he made a name for himself primarily as a Hispanist, including through work on the Cantar de Mio Cid . He was Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor .

Other works

  • Gaston Paris, Studier över medeltida Sagor , Stockholm 1903 (translation from French)
  • Études sur les pronoms abrégés en ancien espagnol , Leipzig 1906
  • Contribution à la syntaxe du pronom personnel dans le Poème du Cid , in: Romanische Forschungen 23, 1906, pp. 621–636
  • Etude sur l'ancien dialecte léonais d'aprés des chartes du XIIIè siècle , Uppsala 1907, Oviedo 1992
  • Per Adolf Geijer , in: Studier i modern språkvetenskap 7, 1920
  • Quelques remarques concernant les assonances dans le Poème du Cid , in: Homenaje ofrecido a Menéndez Pidal: miscelánea de estudios lingüísticos, literarios e históricos , Vol. 2, 1925, pp. 417-429
  • L'enseignement du français en Hollande et en Suède , Paris 1926 (with Jean-Jacques Salverda de Grave )
  • Sur une lauda de Jacopone da Todi (quando t'alegri, homo de altura) , Leipzig 1927

literature

  • RE Zachrisson [1880-1937, Anglist]: Eric Staaff in memoriam (March 4th, 1867-28th, 1936) , in: Studia Neophilologica 9, 1936/37, pp. 1-2

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personal data
SURNAME Staaff, Erik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staaff, Erik Schöne; Staaff, Eric; Nice, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish Romanist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1936