Etienne Lorck

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Etienne Lorck (born March 13, 1860 in Düsseldorf , † March 24, 1933 in Cologne ) was a German Romanist .

life and work

Etienne Lorck, who also appears with the first names J. Etienne and Stefan, grew up as the son of a Norwegian painter in Düsseldorf. He studied in Strasbourg, Oslo and Freiburg, then (after a stay abroad in Italy, France and England) from 1884 in Bonn. From 1888 to 1895 he was a French lecturer at the University of Bonn . He did his doctorate in 1890 with Wendelin Foerster with phonetics of a Latin-Bergamasque glossary of the XV. Century (published and T. Old Bergamaskische Sprachdenkmäler. IXth -XVth centuries , edited and explained, Halle aS 1893). From 1895 he was a high school teacher in Essen and Barmen. In 1901 he was appointed professor of French language and literature at the Cologne University of Commerce (his English colleague was Arnold Schröer ) and in 1919 he was appointed full professor at the University of Cologne , whose English and Romance seminar emerged from the University of Commerce. In 1927 he retired at the age of 67, but represented himself until 1930. His successor was Leo Spitzer . Since 1901 it belonged to the Corps Hansea Cologne .

Other works

  • Passé défini, imparfait, passé indéfini. A grammatical-psychological study , Heidelberg 1914
  • The "experienced speech". A linguistic investigation , Heidelberg 1921

literature

  • Bernhard König: Etienne (Stefan) Lorck and the beginnings of Romance philology in Cologne, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft , Tübingen 1994, pp. 517-528
  • Eugen Lerch: From imagination in language. Etienne Lorck on his 70th birthday, in: Kölnische Zeitung March 11, 1930
  • Leo Spitzer: Mind and Imagination in Language. An obituary for Stefan Lorck, in: [Kölner] Stadt-Anzeiger March 27, 1933

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Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 84/5