Franz Blatt

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Franz Josef Blatt (born August 31, 1903 in Frederiksberg , Copenhagen , † August 2, 1979 in Roskilde ) was an Austro-Danish Middle Latin philologist .

Life

Leaf was the child of Austrian Roman Catholic parents, the factory director Josef Blatt (1870–1950) and his wife Bertha Spieler (1874–1950), and grew up in Denmark . After attending school in Copenhagen, he studied classical philology and Romance studies there. Anders Bjørn Drachmann and Kristian Sandfeld were among his academic teachers. From 1925 to 1926 he completed a postgraduate course in historical grammar with Einar Löfstedt in Lund . In 1926 he obtained his master's degree. From 1928 to 1930 he was a scholarship holder of the Carlsberg Foundation at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich. In 1930 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the Latin arrangements of Acta Andreae et Matthiae . In the same year he got a job as a lecturer at the new University of Aarhus , from 1934 to 1972 he was professor of classical philology there and from 1949 to 1951 at the same time rector of the university. In 1940 he had turned down an offer to Copenhagen. In order to escape the National Socialist occupation , he went into exile in Sweden in 1943 until the liberation, where he worked as a teacher in Gothenburg . From 1953 to 1964 he was a co-opted individual member of the Thesaurus Commission , from 1957 to 1977 he was a member of the Carlsberg Foundation, from 1971 to 1976 its chairman. For a time, Blatt also acted as editor of the Danish magazine Classica et mediaevalia .

He died in 1979 and was buried in Aarhus .

Research and Honors

Blatt was regarded as an international capacity in the field of Middle Latin philology. He is known in particular as the initiator and editor of the Novum glossarium mediae latinitatis project funded by the Union Académique Internationale , but also for a comprehensive diplomatic collection of medieval Danish documents and a word index on the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus .

Blatt had been a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences since 1949 . The University of Glasgow awarded him an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law and another honorary doctorate from the University of Bordeaux .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Latin adaptations of the Acta Andreae et Matthiae apud anthropophagos (= magazine for the New Testament science and the knowledge of the old church. Supplement 12). A. Töpelmann, Giessen 1930.
  • Language change in Latin in the Middle Ages. In: Historical quarterly. Volume 28, 1934, pp. 22-52. Unchanged reprographic reprint, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1970 (= Libelli. Volume 317).
  • Diplomatarium Danicum II, 1–12. Copenhagen 1938-1960.
  • Saxonis Gesta Danorum. Ed. et rec. Jørgen Olrik and Hans Ræder . Indicem verborum conficiendum curavit Franz Blatt. Copenhagen 1931–1957.
  • (Ed.): Novum glossarium mediae latinitatis ab anno DCCC usque ad annum MCC. Ejnar Munksgaard, Hafniae (Copenhagen) 1957 ff. (In development)

literature

  • Holger Friis Johansen : Franz sheet . In: Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Oversigt over selskabets virksomhed. 1980-1981, pp. 84-96 (in Danish).
  • Holger Friis Johansen: Franz sheet . In: Aarhus Universitet: Årsberetning. 1978–1979, pp. 29–36 (in Danish).
  • Per Krarup: Franz Blatt. In: Dansk biografisk leksikon 3rd edition, Volume 2, Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1979, pp. 212-213 (online) (in Danish).
  • Yves Lefèvre: In memoriam Franz Blatt. In: Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi. Volume 42, 1979–1980 (1982), pp. 175–177 (PDF) (in French)

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personal data
SURNAME Blatt, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blatt, Franz Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Danish Middle Latin philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Frederiksberg , Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1979
Place of death Roskilde