Fritz Neumann (Romanist)

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Fritz Neumann

Fritz Neumann (born April 23, 1854 in Warnemünde ; † February 3, 1934 in Heidelberg ) was a German Romanist .

life and work

Neumann received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1876 with Karl Bartsch on the Germanic elements in the Provençal and French languages, treated according to their phonetic relationships, and obtained his habilitation there in 1878 with On the Phonics and Flexion of Old French, mainly from private documents from Vermandois (Heilbronn 1878). In 1881 he became an associate professor in Heidelberg. From 1882 to 1890 he was the first professor of Romance philology in Freiburg (full professor from 1883) and from 1890 to 1924 the first professor of Romance philology in Heidelberg . Neumann was editor of the literary journal for Germanic and Romance philology for many years . Neumann's students included Emil Levy , Leonardo Olschki and Karl Vossler . From 1909 he was an extraordinary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Other works

  • The Romance Philology. A floor plan , Leipzig 1886 (it. La filologia romanza , Castello 1893)

literature

  • Karl Vossler, Salvatore di Giacomo. Festgabe for Fritz Neumann , Heidelberg 1908 (with dedication worth reading, p. 3 ff)
  • Hans Helmut Christmann , Romance and English studies at the German university in the 19th century. Their development as a subject and their relationship to German and classical philology , Stuttgart 1985
  • Harri Meier, Fritz Neumann on his 100th birthday, in: Ruperto-Carola 7th year, 17, 1955, pp. 73f. (with picture)

Web links

Commons : Fritz Neumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Fritz Neumann. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Warnemünde
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1934
Place of death Heidelberg