Friedrich Hanssen

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Friedrich (Federico) Hanssen

Friedrich Hanssen (full name: Friedrich (Federico) Ludwig Christian Hanssen ; born August 2, 1857 in Moscow , †  August 29, 1919 in Santiago de Chile ) was a German linguist and Romance scholar and university professor with a focus on Hispanic linguistics.

Career

He was the son of the businessman Eugen Gottfried Theodor Hanssen from Lübeck and his wife Julia Burchiardi. He first visited the Katharineum in Lübeck in Lübeck, where he began his classical training. He first studied a few semesters at the University of Leipzig and finally at the University of Strasbourg , where he received his doctorate in 1882 as Doctor philosophiae on the subject of "De arte metrica Commodiani". In 1884 the habilitation followed in Leipzig with the topic "Anacreonteorum sulloge palatina recensetur et explicatur". A few years later he was appointed as a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig. Afterwards he was a lecturer in Greek and Latin at the in 1889University of Leipzig . But in the same year 1889 he went to Chile, where he taught until the end of his life. First as a university lecturer at the “Instituto Pedagógico Santiago de Chile”, then from 1911 as its director. He has published numerous papers on Spanish and Portuguese grammar.

Hanssen's grave on the Cementerio General de Santiago de Chile .

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SURNAME Hanssen, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanssen, Friedrich Ludwig Christian; Hanssen, Federico Ludwig Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and university professor with a focus on Hispanic linguistics
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1919
Place of death Santiago de Chile