Gottfried Baist

Gottfried Baist (born February 28, 1853 in Ulfa (Nidda) , † October 22, 1920 in Freiburg i.Br. ) was a German Romance and Hispanic scholar. His father was the pastor Gustav Baist ; his uncle was the chemist and entrepreneur Ludwig Baist .

life and work

Baist studied Romance languages, history and German language and literature in Giessen and with Conrad Hofmann in Munich. He received his doctorate in 1880 in Erlangen with Karl Vollmöller Hispanic with age and text transmission of the writings of Don Juan Manuel (Halle aS 1880), was there from 1884 an assessor at the library and habilitated in 1889 with Hermann Varnhagen on the Arabic breath sounds and gutturals in Spanish (Erlangen 1889 ). From 1891 to 1918, he succeeded Fritz Neumann as a full professor of Romance philology in Freiburg . In the 1909/10 year of office he was also rector there.

Other works

• The Spanish language, in: Plan of Romance Philology , ed. by Gustav Gröber Vol. 1, Strasbourg 1888, pp. 689–714, 2nd ed. 1904, pp. 878–915
• Spanish literature, in: Grundriss der Romansischen Philologie , ed. by Gustav Gröber, 1st volume, 2nd department, Strasbourg 1897, pp. 383-466, 2nd verb. and. Probably ed., Strasbourg 1904-06
• Grammar of the Spanish Language , Second revised and enlarged edition, Strasbourg 1906
• (Ed.) Juan Manuel, El libro de la caza , Halle aS 1880, Hildesheim 1984
• (Ed.) Antonio Muñoz, Aventuras en verso y prossa , Halle as 1907

literature

• David Pharies , Gottfried Baist as Etymologist, in: Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 96, 1980, pp. 92-107
• Friedrich Schürr , in: Journal for Romance Philology 46, 1926, pp. 129–134
• Adolf Zauner : Gottfried Baist as Hispanist, in: Archive for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures 147, 1924, pp. 102-106

Web links

• Literature by and about Gottfried Baist in the catalog of the German National Library
• University of Freiburg