Friedrich Schürr

Friedrich Schürr (born June 9, 1888 in Vienna , † August 24, 1980 in Konstanz ) was an Austrian Romanist , Italianist and dialectologist.

life and work

Friedrich Schürr studied Romance languages ​​with Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke and Philipp August Becker , art history with Josef Strzygowski , and German with Jakob Minor in Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1911 under Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke with the knowledge of Romagna. Vocalism and Intervocal Dentalia . In 1915 he became a lecturer for Italian in Strasbourg and in 1919 in Freiburg. He completed his habilitation in Freiburg with Hanns Heiss on Romagna dialect studies (2 volumes, Vienna 1918, 1919). In 1925 he became an associate professor in Freiburg . On March 27, 1933, Friedrich Schürr became a provisional member of the NSDAP ( his membership was confirmed after the annexation of Austria ). From 1926 to 1936 he was a professor in Graz , from 1936 to 1940 in Marburg , from 1940 to 1941 in Cologne , from 1941 to 1944 in Strasbourg . From 1948 to 1958 he was a lecturer in Freiburg and from 1950 director of the Romance seminar at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg. Schürr was an honorary citizen of Ravenna . The “Istituto Friedrich Schürr per la salvaguardia e la valorizzazione del patrimonio dialettale romagnolo” in Santo Stefano (Ravenna) is named after him. He is buried in the Allmannsdorf cemetery in Allmannsdorf (Konstanz) .

Other works

• Characteristic of the dialect of Portomaggiore (Province of Ferrara). Phonology, remarks on the theory of forms , Trieste 1914
• Romagna dialects. Speech samples in phonetic transcription based on phonographic recordings , Vienna 1917
• Linguistics and Zeitgeist. A study of the philosophy of language , Marburg 1922, 2nd edition 1925
• The old French epic. On the history of style and inner form of Gothic , Munich 1926
• Baroque, Classicism and Rococo in French Literature , Leipzig 1928
• (Together with Hanns Heiss, Kurt Jaeckel, Hans Jeschke and Walther von Wartburg) The Romance literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries (Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft , edited by Oskar Walzel), Berlin without a year
• (Together with Hans Jeschke and Martin Block) Italian and Spanish literature from 1870 to the present. Romanian literature (Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft, edited by Oskar Walzel), Berlin 1938
• Pulon Matt. The "Rasende Roland" in the village, in: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 11, 1940, pp. 85-88
• Cervantes. For the 400th birthday of the great humorist , Essen 1947, 2nd edition Bern / Munich 1963
• Miguel de Unamuno. The poet-philosopher of the tragic attitude towards life , Bern / Munich 1962
• Experience, symbol, myth. Ways of interpreting the meaning of Romanesque poetry. Selected articles and lectures , Bern / Munich 1968
• La diphtongaison romane , Tübingen 1970
• Problems and principles of Romance linguistics , Tübingen 1971
• La voce della Romagna. Profilo linguisticoletterario , Ravenna 1974

literature

• How I became a Romanist, in: Carinthia 1, 158, 1968, pp. 116-135
• Giuseppe Bellosi, Le edizioni del Pulon Matt, in: Studi Romagnoli 50, 1999, pp. 239-251
• Frank-Rutger Hausmann :  Schürr, Friedrich Josef Maria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 648 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : Also a national science? German Romance Studies under National Socialism. In: Romance journal for the history of literature. 22, 1998, p. 262 ( online ; PDF; 10.7 MB).
2. ^ Schürr, Friedrich Josef Maria , in: German Bibliography

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Schürr in the catalog of the German National Library
• romanistik.uni-freiburg.de (with picture)
• Website of the Istituto Friedrich Schürr